Amsterdam hotel considering legal action over Modern Warfare 2 level

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare II is now fully out - it feels odd to write that it only properly released last Thursday (28 October) when the campaign had been accessible for an entire week before then, as a bonus for anyone who’d preordered the game.

The campaign in question has been hailed as one of the best in the series - perhaps giving it the time to shine away from the multiplayer has helped there. Either way, fans are loving it, and one particular mission turned a lot of heads just for how visually impressive it is.

Check out some gameplay footage from Modern Warfare II below.

I'm talking about the mission in Amsterdam - players were quick to point out that the scenery in-game matches up pretty much perfectly with the real life city. So much so that, as NL Times reports, one city-centre hotel is now considering legal action due to the game’s depiction of the building.

“We have taken note of the fact that the Conservatorium Hotel is undesirably the scene of the new Call of Duty,” hotel manager Roy Tomassen told de Volksrant. “More generally, we don't support games that seem to encourage the use of violence. The game in no way reflects our core values and we regret our apparent and unwanted involvement.”

The real-life Conservatorium Hotel is renamed to the Breenbergh in MWII, but is still very recognisable in the campaign level and multiplayer map as it’s an iconic historical building. Given the setting of the game and the violence that occurs on the map, it’s understandable that the people who work for the hotel aren't best pleased about its inclusion.

PC Gamer writes that Resistance: Fall of Man’s depiction of Manchester Cathedral in 2006 prompted Sony to issue an official apology to the Church of England, but whether or not Activision will take a similar approach here remains to be seen.