Cathedral shootout game under fire

[nevadamedic]

Story Highlights
• Church criticizes Sony over violent game set in cathedral
• Officials say Sony's use of building is "sick," sacrilegious
• Sony spokesman tells Times: It is just entertainment

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/fun.games/06/09/sony.manchester.ap/index.html

[Hobbit]

I don't seem to remember them objecting when Call of Duty had members of the 82nd Airborne using a bombed out church as a bunker. It's a location where there happens to be a fight. Real life is not Highlander and fights sometimes happen on holy ground. If you don't like it, don't buy the game.

[dan]

The article makes it sound like the whole point of the game is to shoot up a church. That's not the case at all.

[Monkeybone]

oh no! if they take that part out then how will we defend the churches when the real aliens attack! :tinfoil:

[diuretic]

At Canterbury Cathedral (Kent, UK) you can see the place where the Archbishop of Canterbury (Thomas a Becket) was murdered in 1170.