11/26/2002 12:34 AM

UK Stores Ban Game They Say is Racist

UK store chains like Woolworths and PC World are refusing to sell the game Hitman 2 because they say it is racist. The stores are responding to complaints from Sikh groups who object to characters in the game killing people with turbans.

Sikhs think the level in the game resembles a massacre where Indian police in 1984 killed hundred of Sikhs in the Golden Temple in Amritsar. The game tells players that the people are terrorists.

Eidos, which makes Hitman 2, states that it will no longer have this level in other versions or in the next version for the GameCube. Eidos has apologized to Sikhs who feel offended by the game.

Source: news.bbc.co.uk
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Now thats a great game!

i find it offensive that theres a level where white and black people get killed, it must be a racist game.
i also think that packman is predjudiced towards ghosts, i mean they arent all that bad, look at casper.
And jurassic park should be banned, i know not all dinosoars are evil, barney told me.

Political correctness can kiss my shiny metal a**.

im also emailing this comment to Eidos and woolworths.. but wollies always have been a bunch of idiots.

ahh.. no doubt now the australian stores now will have to ban it.. it was bad enough the banned GTA3 (meanin couldn't purchase anywhere) until the removed most of the violent content

fire off emails to woolworths.co.au and also to Eidos like i did. be business like and polite.. dont rant.

arhh.. i'll write a nice lil letter to Eidos.. as for woolworths.. here they are only a supermarket w00t

well i think this kind of thing is stupid just because a minority group is seen killing someone in a game doesnt mean the game is racist surely!
maybe we should have a world where only white people are seen in a negative light!
i doubt anyone actually plays threw a game then thinks anything of say an arab wielding an ak47 and killing people it wouldnt be seen as racist if people didnt go on about it being racist IMHO

Art imitates life don't you think?

Get a life please!! You offend me by not having one w00t

There are too many sensitive people out there who just don't want to have their feeling hurt by "Offensive" material, be it video games(ie. Hitman 2), music(ie. Eminem) etc, It's pretty astounding but then again, I don't really care about 99 percent of the population on this planet, so why am I worried?

They are just games!! They don't translate to real life!! if they do, it's in miniscule amounts, by stupid people who really should know better!! There we go, I've ranted, I feel better.

:ditto:


=Drew

That's really sad they pulled the game because you kill people with turbans... first of all, turban wearing people are not a race... If I decide to wear a turban does that mean I'm part of this "race"? Why don't people complain about white people getting killed in video games? I mean the games are being racist against white people..... I don't see their logic behind this, but then again most of the world's population is stupid..

Some stuff I have to reply to and this is that stuff.

"Sikh groups who object to characters in the game killing people with turbans"

Hmm, so its racist towards turbans!

A turban when unraveled becomes nothing more than a piece of cloth.

Sikhs arn't complaining, they are making this sh*t up!

Eidos probably started the rumour to promote it.

Bloke A: Has it got you running about killing people?
Bloke B: Yeah.
Bloke A: Boring, every game is like that.
Bloke B: Yeah but in this you kill people with turbans!
Bloke A: WTF OMFG cool!

But did you really have to reply in a 4 years old thread?

lol, well it is a great game, i cant believe it is that old. i love the entire hitman series

Oh thank god I never brought the game for the GCN. Oh mercy lord I was going to buy a edited game . I remember it being on sale.

Also this is just dumb. I mean look at all the regular channels that have violence level which I have yet to see. Then if you replace a couple of the characters with turbans, facial features, skin tone, or body shape it instantly becomes erasist.

fourty to fifty years ago it was less rasict and less violent then it is now and people are bitching about this kinda jiberish. Next thing we should change up all those arcade games that featured Russia helping the Kore's along with the Kore twins who have really displeasing face. I mean my god there faces was just hweeee trying to make them look like monsters.

Then there is green card holders whining about a company who used a animal as a mascot calling it erasist. W00t

agree on the ban....very racist game.

I think the people who complain most things are racist are probably racist themselves since they actually notice those things...either that or I am just dumb and I overlook all that.

I see it this way as well. I see people as people, not as someone who wears an article of clothing or practices something different then me.

This thread is really, really, really old.

LeveL: You numbskull!

holy hell....

Did you find some ancient roman artifacts burried down there with this thread as well Level?

ya but there angry becasue its make Sikh look like terrorists but there not

and it resembles a massacre
lol but it was a good game hah

Fools. Hitman is the best stealth action game. Ban their heads, not Agent 47.