10 Times Controversy Made You Discover Amazing Video Games

6. Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2

Biggest Controversy: The 'terrorist simulator' airport massacre level. You have to say "For then" because it wasn't long until another soon-to-be-legendary title capitalised on its previous iterations' success and created one of the most divisive and often debated levels in gaming history; the No Russian sequence. Coming from 2009 and a time where video games were starting to produce some really photo-realistic graphics - or real enough to be taken seriously all over again anyway - No Russian asked that you be a CIA agent trying to maintain cover whilst the terrorists around you lay waste to scores of innocent civilians in an airport. Now, 9/11 comparisons by way of the use of anything airport-related notwithstanding, developer Infinity Ward attempted to at least get you to question what it would take to pull the trigger on what was in front of you - they just didn't go far enough with it, allowing for the whole thing to be bypassed if you so chose. Of course that didn't matter when the press got wind of what was on offer, and as can be expected everything from 'terrorist simulator' to "Save the children!" death knells were ringing out on launch day. Mods were applied in Germany and Japan to cause Game Over screens should you shoot a civilian and in the UK it received a strict 18 rating so as to dissuade uninformed parents from letting their children play unawares. Luckily the rest of MW2 was a standout experience, and remains one of the greatest games of all time - but whether or not you think this controversial level helped or hindered the game overall is something a mass audience will never agree on.