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Jun. 9th, 2007 09:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mrphCathedral row over video war game - currently the top story on the BBC news site
Manchester cathedral appears relatively briefly, as part of a larger sequence set in Manchester. As for the "virtual shoot-out in the cathedral's nave in which hundreds of enemies are killed", it fails to mention that they're mostly a swarm of dog-sized alien animals...
Sony may well have messed up by featuring the cathedral without permission, but the reporting is also putting a "gun crime" spin on this that doesn't really fit the game itself.
Manchester cathedral appears relatively briefly, as part of a larger sequence set in Manchester. As for the "virtual shoot-out in the cathedral's nave in which hundreds of enemies are killed", it fails to mention that they're mostly a swarm of dog-sized alien animals...
Sony may well have messed up by featuring the cathedral without permission, but the reporting is also putting a "gun crime" spin on this that doesn't really fit the game itself.
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Date: 2007-06-09 09:20 pm (UTC)I wouldn't have thought so - otherwise painters, film-makers and many other people would have to get permissions for everything they feature in a film/painting/game.