Big bang.While parents worry about their kids playing violent video games, will anyone complain about the latest uber-violent offering from Santa Monica videogame producer Black Ops Entertainment? Its "Fugitive Hunter," released in late November in time to stuff stockings, closely resembles the multitude of other first-person shooter games that let garners blow away terrorists. But the Black Ops game is the first to incorporate actual names and faces of 11 of the world's most wanted real-life terrorists, including Osama bin Laden Osama bin Laden: see bin Laden, Osama. . While some first-person shooter games incite To arouse; urge; provoke; encourage; spur on; goad; stir up; instigate; set in motion; as in to incite a riot. Also, generally, in Criminal Law to instigate, persuade, or move another to commit a crime; in this sense nearly synonymous with abet. accusations of racism for featuring Middle Eastern bad guys, Karen Sternheimer, a USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. lecturer in sociology, said featuring actual terrorists is more politically correct politically correct Politically sensitive adjective Referring to language reflecting awareness and sensitivity to another person's physical, mental, cultural, or other disadvantages or deviations from a norm; a person is not mentally retarded, but . "This game is a very literal interpretation of current events," she said. "It picks up on very widespread values and beliefs. After all, we have a bounty on this guy's (Bin Laden's) head." |
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