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Games about real-life conflicts are 'distasteful' - Codemasters
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Posted by Donster on: 2010-12-20 17:18:30 288
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Operation Flashpoint dev "deliberately setting out not to court that controversy"
By Tom Ivan @ CVG
Operation Flashpoint: Red River creative director Sion Lenton has told Edge that games focusing on live conflict are inappropriate.
"I, personally, don't want to focus on live conflict. I don't think it's appropriate and I don't think it's tasteful," the Codies man told the mag.
"One of the girls who works here, her nephew was killed by an improvised explosive device [IED] a couple of months ago. So when I hear that, I don't want to be in a fucking meeting bigging up my IED tech."
EA opted to choose the Afghanistan war as the subject of its recent Medal of Honor reboot. It was a controversial decision that drew a fair degree of criticism, and the publisher subsequently went as far as to remove the Taliban as a playable force in the title's multiplayer mode.
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