Moral question regarding certain games

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I'm asking this question after talking to several friends whilst playing the World War 2 game, Call of Duty 2. Since yesterday was the anniversary of D-Day, it makes the question a little more pertinent.

"Is it morally acceptable to play games that are based off the suffering of others?"

In this case, the suffering being warfare during World War 2. A friend answered that this game and others like it do desensitize us to the horrors that soldiers, from all sides, went through and we are indeed profiting off of their painful experiences. However, someone else stated that by not playing these games, alot of these topics wouldn't be discussed and we would just as likely be ignoring the sacrifices they've made.

Personally, I feel that watching a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" are very different than playing a game. A movie shows war and their reactions to it but games allow us to form our own reactions without actually experiencing the situation.