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<font face="verdana" color="black"> At this moment in time, as I'm sure you know, NATO forces are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban are an armed force of terrorists that commit atrocities daily. They kill civilians almost for sport. They are waging a guerilla war against UK and USA forces. Bomb disposal teams are in a living hell, IED's are practically everywhere. Around 7,500 IED's were used in 2009 in Afghanistan.

United Kingdom Defence Secretary Liam Fox:


Medal Of Honor takes place in Helmand Province. This is the 'hot-point' of the Taliban. However, they can't bomb it since civilians are there as well. The war is tough and difficult. The people in the land are in terror of the Taliban and are murdered and abused by them. In Medal Of Honor Multiplayer (unsure about Single Player) you may play as the Taliban. This has caused outrage in the United Kingdom and some gamers living in Afghanistan and neighbouring countries have felt physically sick and couldn't move due to disgust after seeing the characters on screen. The Game is likely to be banned in the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom Defence Secretary Liam Fox:


Personally, I'll probably buy the game (if I can), however, I do see these points and while I believe that video games shouldn't be considered in terms of morality as reality I do understand and I'll probably only be slightly uncomfortable about killing United Kingdom Soldiers. However, in previous hit games such as the Call Of Duty series, you've been able to kill United States soldiers. These games haven't been banned in the USA.

To tell the truth, I hope that Medal Of Honor won't be banned in the UK. It's one of the biggest and greatest game series of all time and I'm excited that it's making a comeback. The United States Army is working directly with it, from a professional point of view it's had the best trailers for a video game yet. However, the Defence Secretary will have a lot of leeway and it's definitely possible that UK gamers won't see the game hit their shelves.

Compare and Contrast:
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Taliban forces in reality.

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Taliban forces in-game.

EA's response to the matter:


What do you think?

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If people take a video game seriously there are some problems

people bitch about everything

Taliban: OMG hussein! I'm in a video game now!!!!

It wont be banned in the UK, all EA have done is the same as Activision did with MW2, shown some gameplay to a minister and got some great controversial advertising for free.

Funny a few months ago before MOH details were being shown I remember a few people saying what nonsense the MW2 controversy was and how comes no one had said anything about MOH.

It was gonna happen, but it wont be banned.

What do I think?

I think that yes the death of soldiers is terrible, but about the whole war and not bombing? the Russians tried bombing it off the face of the earth but it didn't work... so why would a vulnerable ground assault work against the campers =D

Anyway, nobody is forcing them to play the game? and what about Opfor in cod?

I think if it were too be banned in the UK it would be ridiculous. In every war game there are two sides. What does it matter who the sides are, no-one cares abotu that anwyay, we just want to play the game.

Ok, yeah...I can understand this. But, really I don't think it needs to be banned. In a post earlier somebody said it was like they were glorifying the taliban, I really don't see how it is?
Ok, yeah...the taliban team will kill the UK/US Soldiers "glorifying" them, but then you have the UK/USA Forces killing the taliban, therefore "glorifying" them. So, all in all, it balances itself out.

Alright, Lets say their not doing this for attention, its a video game, I mean come on obviously its not exactly like the war against the Taliban, and whynot kick ass against the people causing war in the world.