The Most Controversial Games Of All Time

By Stephen Leigh /

6. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

2009 Activision/Infinity Ward Activision managed to garner themselves a considerable amount of unnecessary controversy in 2009 with the infamous €˜No Russian€™ level featured in Modern Warfare 2€™s campaign. Touted as a thought provoking look at terrorism through the eyes of its perpetrators by Inifnity Ward, it didn€™t stop many from seeing it as an attempt to purposefully hit the headlines, receiving free publicity in the process. Playing No Russian, there€™s no doubt that the on-screen massacre is depicted as stomach churning and horrific. There's also the option to skip it all together, following a warning over its graphic and distressing content. Sadly it also feels needlessly sensational in a game which has nothing of worth to say. The whole sequence clashes tonally with the rest of the game, which has all the tact and subtlety of a Michael Bay film. It simply furthered the unpleasantness of a game already questionable in its propagandist U.S invasion storyline. http://youtu.be/8NMnnMRWJ-0