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<font face="verdana" color="black"> At this moment in time, as I'm sure you know, NATO forces are fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan. The Taliban are an armed force of terrorists that commit atrocities daily. They kill civilians almost for sport. They are waging a guerilla war against UK and USA forces. Bomb disposal teams are in a living hell, IED's are practically everywhere. Around 7,500 IED's were used in 2009 in Afghanistan.

United Kingdom Defence Secretary Liam Fox:


Medal Of Honor takes place in Helmand Province. This is the 'hot-point' of the Taliban. However, they can't bomb it since civilians are there as well. The war is tough and difficult. The people in the land are in terror of the Taliban and are murdered and abused by them. In Medal Of Honor Multiplayer (unsure about Single Player) you may play as the Taliban. This has caused outrage in the United Kingdom and some gamers living in Afghanistan and neighbouring countries have felt physically sick and couldn't move due to disgust after seeing the characters on screen. The Game is likely to be banned in the United Kingdom.

United Kingdom Defence Secretary Liam Fox:


Personally, I'll probably buy the game (if I can), however, I do see these points and while I believe that video games shouldn't be considered in terms of morality as reality I do understand and I'll probably only be slightly uncomfortable about killing United Kingdom Soldiers. However, in previous hit games such as the Call Of Duty series, you've been able to kill United States soldiers. These games haven't been banned in the USA.

To tell the truth, I hope that Medal Of Honor won't be banned in the UK. It's one of the biggest and greatest game series of all time and I'm excited that it's making a comeback. The United States Army is working directly with it, from a professional point of view it's had the best trailers for a video game yet. However, the Defence Secretary will have a lot of leeway and it's definitely possible that UK gamers won't see the game hit their shelves.

Compare and Contrast:
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Taliban forces in reality.

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Taliban forces in-game.

EA's response to the matter:


What do you think?

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I wasnt going to buy it anyway.

Maybe we should look to the bright side that we won't get those angry english gamers.

"un-British" made me laugh.

What a stupid Secretary of Defense, its just a game.

I've played as OpFor in CoD, and killed countless americans, and no one is protesting.

Yeah it was on the news this morning (GMTV) and I think it shouldnt be banned I mean like, MW2, CoD4, and WaW and many others play as taliban/nazis... why groan about MoH?

I actually agree. It should be banned. My uncle died in Helmand Province. If there was a video game about flying planes in to ****ing towers america would be the first to ban. This is no different.

Just another way to blame video games on something. As you can see Gov't hates video games. If anything happens bad it can always somehow trace its way back to a video game. So I'm guessing if there is any sort of attack on UK from a UK citizen the news reporters over their will manage to somehow put in about MoH convinced this person blah blah blah!

isn't dice a UK game company? i may be wrong

can't see this game being banned in the UK