UPDATE: Seems this report may have been in error. According to Activision, no ban or recall has been issued. For more details, click here.

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Looks like that controversial (and optional) airport scene in Modern Warfare 2 got the attention of the Russian government and not just Fox News. The level, which involves the player walking with a group of Russian terrorists who violently mow down a large group of innocent people in an airport lobby, has been met with much debate amongst the gaming public.

Russia apparently caught wind of the game’s content and ordered a nation-wide ban of the game, even going so far as to recall already purchased copies.

Infinity Ward offered to patch the level out of the Russian version of the game and is currently pending government approval, hopefully to be re-released within a month.

I’m really bothered by this, not just because of the public reaction to this scene (I doubt most of the Russian politicians have played the game), but the fact the government has the ability to ban forms of media in Russia. Censorship ain’t cool, man!

Oh, and it’s not like Russia hasn’t been the “bad-guy” in every Tom Clancy book ever written.

[Source: Hellforge via Destructoid]