Canada Dismayed Over Quebec Terrorist Game Plot

Thanks to Canoe.ca for their article discussing the Canadian reaction to the in-game plot of Sony's forthcoming PS2 title Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, which has a level in which "...the [terrorist] Quebec Liberations Front has taken control of one of Toronto's underground subway tunnels." This is "an apparent reference to the Front de liberation du Quebec (FLQ), whose kidnapping and murder of Quebec cabinet minister Pierre Laporte in 1970 led to the imposition of the War Measures Act." A spokesperson for the Toronto transit commission has suggested: "The fact is someone is putting the Toronto subway as a terrorist site, that is a very dangerous thing to do", while a group of Quebec sovereigntists have commented: "It's difficult not to be made to feel like a target when you have a game inviting players to shoot at separatists." Update: 10/23 23:25 GMT by S : According to CTV.ca, Sony have now agreed to change the game, "rather than face a real-life storm of angry Quebecers."

Comments

And for you European Insensible Clods...

[Anonymous Coward]

Here a reason why you should buy this game if you don't care for Canada: you are shooting at descendants of the French!!!

Re:Whoa people!

[Macaco Do Mar]

ok come on dude, im from texas, and i dont have a cowboy hat, a gun, nor do i fuck my cousin. Besides, big deal if Queubec isnt a real province, Canada isn't even a real country. I feel bad for Queubec, being a fake province of a fake country.

Who gives a damn

[xQuarkDS9x]

Really, who gives a damn if a bunch of Quebec folks complained? I sure as hell wouldn't since the rest of the other provinces in Canada hate Quebec anyway.

And as I recall this wasn't the only game to have Quebec in it. Wasn't there a flight sim game a few years ago that had you do runs against Quebec? :D