Been falling behind on blogs, but I have good reasoning... sorta!

My reason (not "excuse," I hate that word) is that I got Uncharted 2: Among Thieves and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, both of which are very excellent games. Uncharted is about fortune hunters that are after a mythilogical artifact that is involved with Marco Polo's trips and Modern Warfare 2 is a sequel to COD4: Modern Warfare and is another epic war game set in modern times. I won't go much into the games when it comes to story, but both are epic and have pretty good online play.

Uncharted is a mix of a shooting game and platformer since there's a lot of climbing involved. Those who play it may feel like there's a bit of an Indiana Jones feel to it since there's treasure to be found and there's Nazis (except they're always dead Nazis who have been lying there for 60+ years)! As for Modern Warfare 2, I feel like explaining what it's about, besides being an FPS, would ruin the story a bit.

Ok.... I'll talk about one part, and it's a spoiler, so continue reading at your own risk if you want to play the game without having any knowledge of what will happen in the game!!!











Ok... this should be a safe distance... Anyway, in the game, there is a part where you play as a deep CIA agent trying to get close to a terrorist. Part of gaining his trust involves join him on a mission to go massacre hundreds of innocent civilians at an airport. This got the game a toooooon of bad press before it was released, with people claiming it will cause little kids to think its good to be a terrorists and so on. I don't want to go into a huge debate, but M-rated games = 17+, not little kids. Parents need to keep their kids away from these games.

Continuing on... This scene was by far the most distrubing in the game, as people are trying to squeeze through tight security points as they get mowed down by machine gun fire and some try to drag their dying friends and family or crawl away from the bloodshed. The good thing though is that the game warns you ahead of time. When you put the game in for the first time, it warns you of disturbing content that may offend people and give you an option to block it. If you decide not to, you get to the mission, and can't take it, the game gives you a back-up option that allows you to skip the mission and continue to the next one. This is the only mission that has this disturbing content (or at least I think so, nothing else seemed to really stick out).

As for "why is this in the game?" it's because it's crucial to the story. The tension between the US and Russia are high after the end of COD4, almost like a new cold war, and this part was the spark that started the fire. At the end of the mission, your character is killed by the terrorist and left at the scene of the massacre, pointing the blame on the US since all the Russian people there were killed and all they found was a dead US agent. This starts a huge war where Russia basically Blitzkriegs the US, ruins the capitol, and we desperately fight to hold our ground. The war doesn't fully end and there are a few things left open that could easily be used to make a Modern Warefare 3 in a few years from now.

Anyway, it's a good game, but if you have a weak stomache and want to play it, you can always skip the massacre and get straight to fighting terrorists and invading commies. It's almost like Red Dawn.... sorta (I think... never saw the movie, only heard about it).