Tijdens een interview over de nieuwe game van IO Interactive, vertelde Karsten Lund dat hij denkt dat gamers het verschil weten tussen de realiteit en games. Hij vertelde namelijk:
- “Games, in general, throughout history have been violent. Even Chess is a violent game about war you could say, right? Games are a chance to try stuff that you’re not trying in real life, and without having to face the consequences. Every game is like that so that’s nothing new.
I’m not an expert in psychology, but I do think that some of these opinions come from an outside crowd that’s not really used to dealing with games, they just watch it and think ‘Oh, it’s got to be affecting people’.
I do think our target audience knows the difference between real life and games.”
Deze uitspraken deed hij nadat er kritiek op Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days was omdat het spel teveel geweld zou bevatten. Dit vindt hij dus onterecht en noemt de Gears of War-serie als voorbeeld:
- “What’s interesting is that it shows a lot less than a game like Gears of War, which is probably the most bloody game and brutal game I’ve ever seen.
I mean you’re knee deep in blood and gore and nobody seems to notice.”