Killzone Soldiers Are Iraqi?

Apparently! Kotaku reports that a teacher from Canada felt the Killzone 2 adverts contained a “menacing head with glowing eyes” and scenes of war “like Iraq”. Now, I’ve never played Killzone, either 1 or 2, but I HAVE seen pictures of Iraq and Iraqi soldiers. The similarities are endless. </sarcasm>.

She was quoted as saying:

My kids, who come from a lot of different countries, who have to experience violence, who basically come here to seek shelter and safety, that’s the stuff they don’t need to see,

Right. I’m sure every single one of those kids have never played Halo. Seriously. I understand kids being sheltered from violent video games, but advertisements of a face? You see worse things on the 5 o’clock news. THE NEWS SHOULD BE BANNED, TOO!

Leave it to a woman Canadian to complain about this. Toronto is basically the NYC of Canada. You mean to tell me the worst thing in a major city is a Killzone ad? No, I don’t think so. Try taking down the Victoria Secrets ads, or really any action movie ad ever made. But nope, those aren’t quite as disturbing as a man, in a mask. It’s not even menacing, it looks like a standard gas mask! Ohh, but the eyes, they’re the DEVIL. Right.

What also bothers me about this, is that Sony just rolled over a fat seal with this. They actually removed 300 ads! It was noted that the ads were coming down in a few days anyway, but the principle of it stands regardless. What’s wrong with you Sony? You’re setting a terrible precedent, and you’re only feeding the fire of video games being evil. Stand your ground! I understand the PS3 is a failure, but you have to maintain what little testicular fortitude you have left!