US Hindus criticize India's first game
I understand why people would take offence of their games if they are badly viewing some group, but according to Sony, they actually haven't done anything wrong here, even portraying the lord as a character winning over Evil ...
Except for it being a religious thing, I actually realy liked this quote:
Sony's managed to offend Christians and Muslims in recent years, and now, Hindu adherents are taking the Japanese console maker to task.
At issue is a Playstation 2 game called "Hanuman: Boy Warrior", reportedly the first console game developed entirely in India. It allows its players to control Hanuman, a key figure in Hindu mythology, and that's riled up the president of the Universal Society of Hinduism, Rajan Zed, who said in a press release: "Controlling and manipulating Lord Hanuman with a joystick/button/keyboard/mouse was denigration. Lord Hanuman was not meant to be reduced to just a 'character' in a video game to solidify company/products base in the growing economy of India."
I understand why people would take offence of their games if they are badly viewing some group, but according to Sony, they actually haven't done anything wrong here, even portraying the lord as a character winning over Evil ...
Except for it being a religious thing, I actually realy liked this quote:
If you're keeping score, Sony has now offended dignitaries from all three of the world's dominant religions in less than two years.