Yeah, I think a lot of people dont' realize, or forget, that Atomic Games did the well-received V for Victory and Close Combat pc games many years ago. The developer has a good reputation in the hard-core wargame community and has treated their subject matter with respect in the past.
This is political correctness run amok.

Actually, i know of a lot of "war vets" who just came out of fallujah who play war games all the time, specifically the "Project Reality" mod.

Hell my step-dad who was in Desert Storm came and helped me learn how to snipe in the game (had to deal with bullet drop mainly)

=/ In all honesty, war has been glorified well before video games were invented. I mean, if you think about it, it's been glorified since the first war ever. Empires were created and war was thought of as a way of a boy becoming a man, a hero.

Truth be told, you need to get the political correctness stick you people have shoved so far up your *** and learn that life is the way it is, and get over it. This video game is just as if it were a visual representation of a book. It actually probably will give players a more in depth view of it. I'm sorry if you see gamers as the brain-dead idiots some of them are, but there are still some of us who like a good gut-wrenching story. I mean, hell, when i played Call of Duty 2: Big Red One, i forgot the guy's name cause i haven't played it since i was in 8th grade (i'm graduating as of this year) but one of the characters died in it. I think his name was Brooklyn, or his nickname at least. This guy was a fictional character, that i knew for about 3 hours. He died, and I felt horrible. I felt like it was a story to be told.

We all know war is bad. Well, at least most of us do. I would never go to war... i'd probably even run away if the draft was ever reinstated.

Maybe something terrible happened to your grandfather while he was fighting. That doesn't mean he didn't do his duty for his country.

We don't glorify the murder, nor the killing. Even some gamers have a feeling of duty, even if it is fake. But thats what video games do. They allow us to do things we feel we might actually not be able to do in real life. Not to say we're all like that, but to say that we need to stop the glorifying of war is like saying that we need to stop breathing. So long as humanity exists, there will be war. Not because we can't make peace, but because there will always be someone to disagree. There will always be an extremist (which, again, is a relative term), and there will always be blood. Murder will be apart of our world until the coming of Armageddon.

So why not glorify it? Along with that, Atomic Games has always been known for hardcore warfare games that give a very accurate depiction of war. This isn't a Call of Duty game. This is a game that strives to show how Fallujah was, or might have been.

So please, realize that some of us play some types of video games like Books. We get into it, analyze the characters, and try to learn something out of it.

Thats why I will always love the metal gear solid series... it's so.. complex, but simple.