Kotaku - Mainstream news outlets often get games wrong. This has been discussed. And discussed. And discussed, again, this week.
The Assassin's Creed 3 article that Fox News published earlier this week is atrocious for so many reasons. Yes, it's xenophobic, somehow making the phrase "French company" sound like dirty words. Yes, Fox clearly tried to twist it into something that it's not. And to top it off it's chock-full of simple factual errors.
Perhaps one of the best liked and followed massive world role-playing action-adventure game series - but that doesn't mean it's historically accurate.
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At the beginning of "Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare," the recently released installment in Activision's blockbuster military shooter franchise, the player is dumped from the sky in a drop pod onto an urban battlefield, smashing into skyscrapers and landing in a futuristic, war-torn rendition of a city that's rarely depicted in video games: Seoul, South Korea.
Clipping Error goes through the games included in the latest Assassin's Creed game pack, Assassin's Creed Birth Of A New World The American Saga.
Fair and balanced....lol
They are all unreliable in one way or another, lol. Even kotako, believe it or not.
Ironic that Kotaku would call someone out on inaccuracies. Even so, who actually expects Fox to fix their mistakes? Their popularity is based solely on perpetuating falsehoods and feeding them to their viewers.
Did anyone even read what fox new put? What part of it was wrong or "xenophobic"? Was it the part where they said what the DLC was about because that was pretty spot on? Or was it the word French? Since when does describing the location of the company that made it "Xenophobic"? Are you being xenophobic when you say hey lets go eat mexican or Chinese food? If this was a game made in China or Japan would it have been xenophobic to say the company was from there? It's letting you know it wasn't a US based company, you chose to see it in a negative light and let yourself be the hateful one.