This appeared to be a bogus press release from the creators of the game to stir up hype and controversy. Russia doesn't even have a rating system for games.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/video-games/6588218/Call-Of-Duty-M...

Bayonetta got a 10 out of 10 by the way.

The orthodox view on how the Cold War ended is a lot of malarky to be honest. I know the arguments but it just doesn't reflect reality. I won't elaborate on this BTW - I can already see how the discussion would go from there and it would just derail the thread. Perhaps when it's more relevant to the subject matter at hand.

While I can't think of any successful Japanese games that were outsourced to the west other than the ones from Nintendo, there have been plenty of successful joint-country of origin games.

Resident Evil 5 is one recent example - in the Making Of featurette you can see that nearly all of the facial animation/voice acting/motion capture work was all done in the US - including the orchestral music that was recorded at Fox Studios.

In Metal Gear Solid, you can pretty much avoid killing if you stick to the tranquilizer - I don't see that in Modern Warfare. So if it indeed was an anti-war game in the vein of MGS4, then it's contradictory at heart - because the main thing you do in the game is to point your gun at targets and kill them.