EA Changes Name Of Taliban Player Option In New Video Game

EA has changed tweaked the option for gamers to play as the Taliban in the newest Medal of Honor game that was released this week.

Instead of being able to play as a member of the Taliban, gamers are now able to be “Opposing Force”

Danger Close, which developed the game, explained their thoughts on the change.

Danger Close marketing director Craig Owens recently spoke to Joystiq about why he believes the much-talked about name change occurred, how reactions have been and more. Upon speaking about Army and Air Force Exchange Service’s GameStop stores:

“The objection was, kind of from an older generation that doesn’t understand games, that the soundbyte was ‘Play as the Taliban and kill US soldiers. There still is, it seems, a group that’s still a little bit leery of a game taking place around an active conflict. Really the big thing was playing as a Taliban killing US troops. So we basically just changed it to ‘Opfor’ – which is a term they [the US Armed Forces] use, some of our competitors use – more out of respect.”

He continued to talk about how approximately 500,000 people played the game’s beta as the Taliban killing US troops and not one complaint came out.