CNN is reporting that Anders Behring Breivik, who killed 77 people in Norway last Summer, “trained” using videogames, and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in particular.
The Norwegian, who has admitted to the murders and claims that he murdered his victims “to fight multiculturalism” also apparently played World of Warcraft for up to 16 hours a day, which doesn’t leave much time for anything else.
The article goes into depth about his apparent motives and actions, but doesn’t dwell or expand further on the headline.
DapperHayden007
You must be some sort of insane person to even say that they used a game to influence them..
HoboCastro
Shame he didn’t train on Skyrim PS3… he would have crashed when he got in the water.
nofi
Oh you.
HoboCastro
Couldn’t resist. I’ve had that one for a while.
hazelam
and these stories never mention the millions of other people that play these games and don’t go on hate filled murder rampages.
DirtyHabit
So did he trigger the bomb in Oslo once he’d reached a 25 killstreak?
Sorry. Very bad taste, couldn’t resist.
KeRaSh
I’d call that poor training. Years of Worms World Party training enabled me to rope jump through cities while deploying explosives with such style that would put Spiderman to shame…
Bladesteel
Headline should read: “Norwegian killer with delusions of grandeur tries to explain away hours playing games by claiming that according to his plan it was training”
E8_BALL_
For practice? lol. Surely a live firing range, or hunting game would be more appropriate, than running around in circles & getting spawn killed from behind.
colmshan1990
How could he use COD to train?
It doesn’t even use a light gun, and the levels are extremely linear?
How could he figure out response times to different actions, when the responses are always the same?
Forrest_01
To be fair, i suspect he didn’t think that much into it! :)
herotoozero
To me it’s a blatant ploy from his barrister to reduce any punishment.
Bladesteel
Nope. This was reportedly outlined in his so called “manifest”. It’s probably the result of an inflated ego trying to make everything he has ever done have some kind of significance.
Aquastyle
You seem to be spot on Bladesteel.
InternationalGamer
Because the skills and strength required in Video Games perfectly translates into real life into killing 77 people.