As an active duty member of the military, let me agree with you. The Call of Duty series games and Medal of Honor games are highly popular with the troops. Of course, Modern Warfare 1 and 2 both have troops versus terrorists in multiplayer as well, and MW 1 has been out for over 5 years.
All of the people on this thread, talking about how “offensive” this is to the troops, are ignorant. I can guarantee you that three fourths of the troops below E-6 have either Modern Warfare 1 or 2. In the multiplayer game, playing as a terrorist simply allows you to distinguish between friendly and enemy soldiers. I guess that troops versus Hippies or Redcoats weren’t as popular in testing.
It’s no different than Call of Duty: World at War. In multiplayer, it randomly assigns you to play as the Americans, Japanese, Soviets, or Nazi Germans in multiplayer depending on the map (it’s always US vs Japan or Germany vs Russia). Guess that makes me a Communist/Nazi/Imperial Japanese warmonger, according to everyone’s logic here.
I don’t own any of these video games. I’m too old for that crap. When I do shoot guns, I shoot the REAL ones I own with REAL ammunition at the range. But some of the reactions on this website are ridiculous and obviously uninformed. Don’t give the DUers something else to make fun of us about.
I played everything from strategic simulations with thousands of cardboard counters to the crude computer simulations of that day.
Not much has changed.