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Medal of Honor's Taliban Controversy
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-08-23 17:26:26 232
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Broadcaster withdraws MOH story
By Ben Parfitt @ MCV
A major news broadcaster has this morning withdrawn a planned news story about Medal of Honor after learning that much of the information being touted about the game by the media is inaccurate, MCV has discovered.
Upon discovering that no British troops feature in EA’s game the media company ruled that the story was not relevant to its audience and decided to drop the feature. But this decision flies in the face of a wave of often inaccurate reporting about the title in the UK media this morning.
Earlier today GMTV ran a piece on the title in which a former military officer, despite the best efforts of the presenters, refused to chastise the game, saying that he didn’t believe playing as the Taliban in a video game poses any real-world threat.
Meanwhile, The Sun has claimed that “gamers who choose to play as Taliban are apparently instructed to stop the coalition ‘at all costs’ and receive points for every allied troop they kill”.
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