Slow news day?

[mrph]

Cathedral 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.

Comments

[livingarmchair.livejournal.com]

Would you feel the same if they replaced the graphics with a "bog standard" generic church? (Given that they all look roughly the same inside, everyone can complain then!)

Maybe the clergy should remember that it's only a game. I doubt anyone who plays it will somehow regard Manchester Cathedral as being unsafe because of this. Not that most of them will actually care or ever set foot inside Manchester cathedral.