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Sequel to hit game The Hacker incites controversy
May 13th, 2011
Gaming giant Holographic Arts is under fire following the announcement of the sequel to last year’s “The Hacker”, which is set to include an adversarial multiplayer mode. The original game, in which players took the role of a former Special Tasks Group member caught up in the Geth War on Rannoch, attracted some minor controversy for its inaccurate historical depiction of the conflict; the sequel is being branded “monstrous” by entertainment journalists for allowing players to elect to take on the role of the geth forces, with the goal of destroying spaceports and murdering stranded quarian evacuees. Holographic Arts has issued a statement seeking to downplay the controversy, denying any intent to glamorize geth atrocities, and saying that the feature’s inclusion is simply a means of allowing players to compete with one another as a test of skill. Matriarch Kuroa, a noted advocate of quarian affairs, has slammed the announcement, calling the game a “genocide simulator”, and analysts are predicting HA sales in the Asari Republics will suffer dramatically.
Tags: geth, Holographic Arts, Matriarch Kuroa, quarian, The Hacker
May 13th, 2011
Gaming giant Holographic Arts is under fire following the announcement of the sequel to last year’s “The Hacker”, which is set to include an adversarial multiplayer mode. The original game, in which players took the role of a former Special Tasks Group member caught up in the Geth War on Rannoch, attracted some minor controversy for its inaccurate historical depiction of the conflict; the sequel is being branded “monstrous” by entertainment journalists for allowing players to elect to take on the role of the geth forces, with the goal of destroying spaceports and murdering stranded quarian evacuees. Holographic Arts has issued a statement seeking to downplay the controversy, denying any intent to glamorize geth atrocities, and saying that the feature’s inclusion is simply a means of allowing players to compete with one another as a test of skill. Matriarch Kuroa, a noted advocate of quarian affairs, has slammed the announcement, calling the game a “genocide simulator”, and analysts are predicting HA sales in the Asari Republics will suffer dramatically.
Tags: geth, Holographic Arts, Matriarch Kuroa, quarian, The Hacker