When news of the Certificate 18 game's content was revealed it was panned by Mediawatch UK as being in 'incredibly poor taste'.Ĭall of Duty 2 also caused outrage when it was revealed players could kill 'civilians'. Other graphic scenes show aerial attacks on New York and grenades exploding in Paris and Berlin. In one controversial scene a soldier causes a Tube train to derail and explode. Call of Duty 3 shows soldiers running through London while bombs explode and buildings crash to the ground. The violence in Call of Duty has been criticised by the London Jewish Forum, the British Muslim Forum and Church of England ministers. Norwegian mass killer Anders Breivik claimed he had ‘trained himself’ to kill his 77 victims by playing Call of Duty.įrench terrorist Mohammed Merah also played Call Of Duty before killing three soldiers and four civilians – including a rabbi and three children – in Toulouse in March 2012. Gamers are armed with machine guns, rifles, pistols and grenades and play a fast-paced game of kill or be killedĬall of Duty allows players to inhabit the role of a blood-thirsty soldier in a variety of grusome scenarios. To speak to a skilled, trained counselor, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline on 18. A suicide offense was documented.'Īccording to records he had been arrested a number of times for driving while intoxicated.Ī telephone listed at his address had been disconnected. 'He got into his van and accelerated, causing the rope to tighten around his neck and decapitated himself. Last year, a coroner in Britain stated that four teenage suicides were partly to blame on versions of the game.Ī spokesman for the Dallas Police Department told Mail Online: 'Witnesses observed the victim, Hugo Rodriguez a Latin male tie a rope around a fire hydrant and then around his neck.
Gamers are armed with machine guns, rifles, pistols and grenades and play a fast-paced game of kill or be killed. It is a first-person shooter that was developed in 2010 and is set in the Second World War and the Cold War. In the aftermath, shocked witnesses posted images online purportedly showing the victim still on the road.Ĭall of Duty Black Ops is a version of the computer game franchise that releases a new edition almost every year. Police are now investigating the incident but revealed that no one else was hurt. The van was eventually taken away while a cordon of patrol cars surrounded Mr Rodriguez's body. The message the man wrote on the side of his van could be related to computer game Call of Duty Black Ops