It's not the start of the holiday blitz of new video games unless there's a big title with something controversial, and this year's first entry is is literally blowing up with attention. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 could be a billion dollar property by the end of the year, but will a leaked scene where a child is reduced to mist going to steal the headlines? In the series, players fight Russian terrorists, and one of the cut scenes shows a young girl playing in the street suddenly killed by a truck exploding. The scene is here, and it's really not as graphic as the media is making it out to be. Yeah, the kid is playing one minute, and the next there's a car bomb, but all you get is the explosion and smoke, not random kiddie parts flying around.
As I noted when Modern Warfare 2 came out two years ago, gamers played a sequence where they participated in the massacre of innocent civilians at a Russian airport, and that game went on to sell more than 22 million copies worldwide. If people really want to have their sensibilities offended, they should focus on the awesome Saints Row 3 coming out next week.
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