Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 shows a blast on the Tube with chilling echoes of the 2005 London horror.

A trailer of game footage released yesterday also depicts a gun battle near Big Ben, and players will also see a dirty bomb attack on Parliament.

Last night victims of the 7/7 attacks, which killed 52 innocent people, called for MPs to ban the game, due to hit shops in November.

Sean Cassidy, whose son Ciaran, 22, died in the Piccadilly Line blast, raged: This is insensitive. What happened shouldnt be used as entertainment. This brings back bad memories for everybody, not just victims but people who travel on the Tube every day.

Lucy Cope from anti- violence group Mothers Against Guns added: This is horrendous, especially when London is on red alert. David Cameron should ban it from the shelves.

And Labour MP Keith Vaz said: I am appalled. The exploding Tube carriages are likely to cause distress. We should consider a ban.

But makers Activision defended the game, which also shows a 9/11-style air attack on New Yorks skyscrapers.
A spokesman said: The scenes are entirely fictional and not intended to recreate any historical events.
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Personally i think that they should not ban mw3 in the UK because alot of people play on it in the UK.

Vivienne Pattison, spokesman for campaign group Mediawatch UK, said: I have concerns as these games are hyper-real and take place in a landscape we are familiar with. In light of the fact we have just had the 7/7 inquests, it is in incredibly poor taste.'
One reviewer at gaming website kotaku.com described the latest instalment in the Call Of Duty series: 'Players take on the role of an SAS operative who is tasked with stopping a delivery of weapons of mass destruction at a London dockyard.
'A gun battle ensues, and the agents are chased through the London subway. The mission culminates with a series of unmarked trucks exploding in front of the House of Parliament, releasing a deadly chemical agent.'
Activision, who make the game, said: 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is a fictional action game aimed at mature adults and set in World War Three. The scenes in the game are entirely fictional and are not intended to recreate any historical events.'

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