User blog comment:Bovell/Former Infinity Ward Level Designer Mohammad Alavi reflects on "No Russian"/@comment-3123696-20120809015927

If his goal was to seek reaction, then he truly achieved his goal, amidst the whole "This game induces kids to terrorism" bullshit. I see No Russian as a fun level, altought I still think the goal of the level was to show how Makarov achieves his goal to invade the US, and as a marketing propaganda. How's that? Simple, you don't really have the option to even fire a single bullet on the civvies, but, by personal experience, I would say that those people were a minority, while the rest either laughed while shooting pixelated people, or just went "Meh, I'll go with it" kind of reaction. Either way, the thing made the media look into the game, thus, giving it more attention and expand the name of it. Just my 2 cents on this.