'Heavy Rain' producer defends 'MW2'

Quantic Dream's Guillaume de Fondaumiere has spoken out in defence of Infinity Ward's Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2, after the game came under fire over its controversial airport scene.

According to the Heavy Rain producer, the game should not be treated any differently to a movie.

"My take on it is very simple. I don't see any reason why video games should be treated differently than movies, for instance," he told MTV. "I think that we should leave game creators free of expressing their vision as they see fit. I think the guys at Infinity Ward had something very precise in mind when they did this scene.

"The real danger for me is, when you put out such a scene out of context. I can take any movie and take a sequence and make up a story and it will look like something that’s amoral or that crosses the line. This is most of the time what happens in video games [in the media]."

The contentious scene sees the player taking control of a terrorist in a Russian airport, firing on unarmed civilians.

Call Of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is available now for Xbox 360, PS3 and PC.