Sony Expresses Apologies over Video Game Setting

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Sony has apologized to the Church of England for using Manchester Cathedral as a background in level 8 of their PSX game “Resistance: Fall of Man.” The Senior Anglicans have requested that the company withdraw the offending game from the market, which features an alternate history without the rise of Russian Communism, the Great Depression, and WWII.

The letter sent from Sony said, “We do not accept that there is any connection between contemporary issues of 21st Century Manchester and a work of science fiction in which a fictitious 1950s Britain is under attack by aliens.”
The game was released in late 2006 in Japan and the U.S., and in March 2007 in Europe. There has been no word yet on pulling the game itself. We wondered why the church had not complained before but figured that they couldn’t get past Level 7 until now.

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