Modern Warfare 3 trivializes combat, says Veteran

U.S. Military Veteran levies criticism at Activision’s marketing methods.

While this wouldn't be the first time a shooting game depicting war has caught some heat from the military veteran community, it is definitely the latest. One Veteran isn't pointing directly at the gameplay this time around, he's calling out Activision's advertising as a method that is "hideous and trivializing".

"If this were September 10, 2001, maybe it wouldn't be quite so bad," said US Army Special Operations Paratrooper D.B. Grady in a recent interview. " But after ten years of constant war, of thousands of amputees and flag-draped coffins, of hundreds of grief stricken communities, did nobody involved in this commerical raise a hand and say, 'You know, this is probably a little crass. Maybe we could just show footage from the game'," Grady said when speaking about the seemingly light-hearted Vet and Noob commercials.

I too preferred the Black Ops ads Mr. Grady, lets keep the heat on until Kobe comes back with his RPG.

By Al McCarthy on January 3, 2012

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Heavenswarrior121
I forgot humans still get hurt by game commercials smh what year is it again?
- Cool dude
  Wow, its the influence of the commercials that causes people to have extreme mixed feelings.
  Not literally hurt them…
- Allen
  I may not like COD but I loved their commercial, so freaking funny.
KLOWN PHACE
I understand where he is coming from… But I’m sure ANYONE who works on ANY CoD title knows that children play the game. This ad was probably just to entertain the young ones.
counter troll ops
all fps shooty games are a small smack in the face Veterans makeing war look cool and all i see where he’s comeing from but games like COD/BF and others are fun and make money so they are not going any where
- IHATETROLLS
  yeah but it’s not about the games it’s the commercials, where only some games wants it to look cool and friendly to newcomers.
  It is quite painful to return from a real war and see crappy depictions of war from the media.
Hoppsy
Although I can understand the point of view of people who are effected by war the bottom line is everything from TV to Games to Movies to little kids pretending sticks are guns trivialize war, its how we as a society deal with the gravity of something so horrific (and almost always corrupt)
Bryant
Doesn’t he mean September 10, 2001? Not 2011