ESPN asks whether Kobe should be appearing in a commercial for an evil, violent video game. The real story is in ESPNs comment sections for this story however. Even non-gamers are incensed.
Excerpt:
"And then last week, he went home and was watching a game when a new commercial for "Call of Duty: Black Ops" came on his television. Seen through Walker's eyes, the content was bad enough. A woman in high heels, a hotel concierge, a guy in a fast-food worker's outfit -- they're all shooting automatic weapons and rocket-propelled grenades in an urban warfare setting.
He was already disgusted, but about halfway through the spot, Walker did a double take: Wait! Wasn't that Kobe Bryant?"
The video on Black Ops 1 shows some separate rooms, assets, and other features which exist outside of the boundary of the game.
From DownSights: "Black Ops is not Black Ops without Nuketown. Following the tradition of releasing Nuketown for Black Ops games, the new Black Ops Cold War game also offers a revamped Nuketown called Nuketown '84.
Nuketown '84 has the same dimensions and map layout except for the aesthetics. The map's aesthetics have changed to fit the 80s theme, with destroyed buildings and graffiti-filled walls compared to a clean 50s suburban neighborhood seen in Black Ops 1."
Jacob writes: "What do we have with the original Call of Duty: Black Ops? Quite simply, one of the best Call of Duty titles of all time."
Grab the pitchforks!!!!
Things don't usually piss me off, but this sure did. I really hope this goes huge on here, and people give Skip Bayless and the other morons at ESPN a piece of their mind. This was on Outside the Lines today also.... Must be a slow news day to advocate censorship and vilifying someone for a hobby that all of us love.
Movie trailers can show more violence more nudity and get away with it.
You have troops overseas... didn't you also start Broadway shows again while having troops overseas... during WW2?
Seriously, Vietnam, life continued as normal for most Americans, with few attacks on ones homeland it's easier to abstract oneself from war, while Americans as a whole are intelligent and individual.
Can we take all Movies off the shelf because there's wars on? Or video games. Ironically most people serving in Iraq and Afghanistan play Video games.
If someone who pulled up in a Car and shot him LIKE... MOST Films, Games, not just GTA.
would there be any issues?
BTW love the commercial
Wow, these asshole sports commentators are bitching like this and its not even directed to them. Now imagine if politicians get a whole of our gaming? Yeah, 10x worse.
Skip needs to STFU up, us gamers aren't bitching and that's all that matters. I commend to woman for giving her honest opinion, which she expressed how she feels but not really care.
EDIT: @gamingisnotacrime double stands man, double standards. Bubbles.