RO:HOS in Belgian newspaper

[Proud_God]

I was quite surprised to find an article in my newspaper (called 'Metro' a free Belgian newspaper). The article talks about the 'controversy caused by RO:HOS, since the DEVs claim it's the first game where you can play as a nazi". See attachement for a scan.

Heh, sure.

Anyway, negative press coverage is still press coverage I guess

 

[kapulA]

Care to translate the entire article so we can draw our own conclusion?

 

[Lucky_Fr4gg3r]

“Controversy surrounding Nazi-Shooter”

Game developer Tripwire brings us a controlversial new game. At first sight, 'Red Orchestra: Heroes of Stalingrad' is a normal shooter based on the 2nd WW, of which there are many games on the market. What seperates this game from it's counterparts is that you will not only be able to play as the allied, but also be able to play the role of a Nazi.

According to Tripwire, this is the first game where the player will have the opportunity to play as a member of the German troops. The game does not have a release date yet.

 

[kapulA]

Sounds alright, but the word Nazi kinda colors the article in a negative light.

 

[TT33]

Shocking/flashy title= more attention

I'd change "Allied" to Bolshevik- lol

 

[Zetsumei]

whoever wrote that has been reading kotaku

 

[SiC-Disaster]

Why do they always have to call every German soldier a Nazi?

 

[aktionman]

Yes, this is now at least the second press coverage which emphasizes this feature of the game -

I hope it does not cause trouble for the single player mode or that the game is pulled from the shelves of some countries...

 

[DietOrange]

Damn bolshevik propaganda

 

[BlackLabel]

zomg i forsee a major "discussion" about it in the "BILD" Zeitung here in germany "will our kids be trained to be nazis ?" " a sieg heil function is rumored to be implented" what makes it worst that its a FPS !! or how we call it in "newspeak" "Killerspiel".... mark my words..it will happen... On the other hand..that article just sold it to all the belgium neo-nazi scum...

 

[[TW]Wilsonam]

Now I have to say that is just getting plain silly... what do they think? We are going to put everyone into Allgemeine-SS uniforms and have the players executing Russian prisoners or something? And, yes, they jumped on the Kotaku piece, I imagine!

 

[BlackLabel]

I thought attrocities where ok in cod5 sp..but wait..that was on allied side... Plus noone can say how the ro:hos sp experience will play out and how stuff will be portrayed..but given twi

 

[Nimsky]

Well, I hope there won't be controversy, because we all know that Tripwire never takes sides and does not put politics in their games. RO portrays the reality of war and does not portray either side as more "glorious" or "evil". I expect no different from RO:HOS.

I'm sure we all know about that game that caused so much controversy recently. Yes, "that" game (I'm not even going to mention its name). But that game turned out to be just another arcade shooter with zero respect for the real thing.

RO is like the complete opposite. Hopefully the media will understand that.

 

[Nestor Makhno]

RO is like the complete opposite. Hopefully the media will understand that.

The media do not care.

The media have an editor to keep happy with 200 words before lunchtime from something they grabbed off of kotaku.

 

[D3terioNation]

Haha

Look at it this way, any publicity is good publicity!

 

[Hackel]

I thought attrocities where ok in cod5 sp..but wait..that was on allied side..

Remember, it's only ok to throw molotovs at the evil fleeing nazis.

 

[camper182]

yeah i saw it today too when i was in the train... not proud to be belgian right now i will email METRO and tell them its not a nazi shooter and not all german soldiers were nazis, people who think so are just plain ignorant

 

[camper182]

Haha

Look at it this way, any publicity is good publicity!

its a free newspaper so alot of people mustve seen it

 

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

or it's free because nobody would actually pay money to read it's rediculous content in the first place!!!!!

 

[Zetsumei]

According to the Guinness book of records Metro is the largest international newspaper . Whenever i take the train i grab the dutch variant ^^. Although they are always full of advertisements and lacks content. So i guess if TWI let sassy do an interview for the belgian and dutch variants. It will be easy advertisement

Just checked the website to get a better quality version: