Call of Duty influences Violence?

So after the last class where one group presented the Wikipedia article "GTA", the class discussed about how kids were influenced by games such as Grand Theft Auto (the kid who killed 3 cops) and Counter Strike (the kid from Vtech). Many believe that kids are easily influenced by social media and socialism. Kids who are exposed to other kids who do bad things like drugs, drink and sex are more likely to get involved. Now these games are rated M for mature for a reason. Meaning that you should not be playing the game unless you are 18 years of age. Otherwise, the parents are in control of the content their kids are exposed to and should not allow their kids to play these games if they think it is going to have this effect on them.

That being said throughout the week i was watching TV and a Call of Duty: Black Ops commercial came on. Black Ops is a First person shooter, taken place in Vietnam with Vietcong Guerrilla soldiers fighting against US special forces. But the commercial used known celebrities and professional sports players. The idea behind it was that these celebrities were holding guns acting as if they were the soldier in the game. And the slogan of the commercial was "there's a soldier in all of us". I thought this was exactly what we were talking about in class and thought it'd be nice to post this up. These war video game producers are trying to reach out to young kids and make them believe that they can be just like these soldiers and be a killing machine. If i were a parent i would not let my kids play this game until i thought they were mature enough to not take it seriously.

http://www.youtube.com/user/CALLOFDUTY?v=Pblj3JHF-Jo&feature=pyv&ad=7241155292&kw=black%20ops%20commercial