Liberal news and politics weblog The Raw Story is calling out the U.S. Army over Gears of War. The beautifully violent game is one of the titles chose for gamers to compete in during the first Army Gaming Championships, and in an article entitled " Army tournament features chainsaw massacre video game" The Raw Story suggests that perhaps including such a work in a competition that is admittedly geared towards recruiting gamers into the military could be sending the wrong signal. They could very well have a point. A website that supposedly tells gamers the Army's side of the story probably shouldn't contain information on curb-stomping.
The official Web site for the Army Gaming Championship also encourages Gears of War players to perform a move known as the "curb stomp," which involves characters in the game crushing an opponent's skull with their boot.
Now I don't normally get in the way of political intrigue, but I can certainly see where The Raw Story is coming from on this one. Army officials were said to have looked very closely at the games in the competition, which include America's Army, Resistance, and Command & Conquer 3, and Gears got a nod because none of the competitors in the tourney were below the recruiting age of seventeen.
Army tournament features chainsaw massacre video game [The Raw Story via Game Politics]


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