I can'd be evil (Score 1)

When I play video games, I can't choose the bad guy. I even have trouble being the Russians in Bad Company 2 (no offense to Russians, but they are the bad guys in the campaign, and I grew up in the USA during the late cold war). Even in total fantasyland, Star Wars games, I can't do the dark side, which made The Force Unleashed particularly troubling for me (fortunately, I had a suspicion about how the game would end). So Bach's conclusion is an imperfect generalization, when given the choice, I wouldn't kill civilians in game, and I'd hope that there are more like me than not. I think having killable civilians in game could be a good realism feature in the urban warfare environment. For gameplay, it would have to be hard to confuse a combatant for a civilian, and of course, the penalty for killing a civilian should be steep. I'm looking forward to Battlefield 3.