MOH: Warfighter to feature Osama Bin Laden themed DLC in December
By Tim Colwill on September 11, 2012 at 4:29 pm
This December, Medal of Honor: Warfighter will be launching a map pack themed around the hunt and capture of Osama Bin Laden in conjunction with the movie Zero Dark Thirty, itself about the same subject. Although Australians will known it as “The Hunt Map Pack” instead, the maps are directly inspired by the capture of the infamous Al Quaeda leader.
“The first map is Darra Gun Market, Pakistan’s flourishing arms bazaar,” writes the press release. “Darra, the largest illegal arms market in the world, is a tribal land based on two principles – hospitality and revenge. No police are allowed to enter the area and the laws are made by the tribal leader.”
“The second location is Chitral, which sits in the far north of Pakistan, bounded by Afghanistan to the west and China to the north. It is a remote, rugged area governed by tribes that will not allow even the Pakistani army to operate there.”
EA is donating $1 from the the sale of each map pack (priced at $15.95) to various charities designed to support armed forces veterans across the globe.
Source: Press Release
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Too soon?
Bin Laden is the new Hitler; he’s an easy target (no pun intended).
/me shrugs
inb4 controversy like Black Ops had for having Fidel Castro and then a few months after the game comes out no one cares anymore.
“EA is donating $1 from the the sale of each map pack (priced at $15.95) to various charities designed to support armed forces veterans across the globe.”
Because donating to charity instantly makes any dodgy material okay. If only rapelay or whatever it was had of known.
Time for the Two Minutes Hate!
and on 11/9 no less
can’t edit post.. stupid new technology.
I just think it’s too soon to be doing this kind of thing (Bin Laden was only killed last year). The fact that it was announced on September 11 makes it seem like they were gunning for publicity more than anything else with no respect for the victims or their families.
Maybe it’s just me though.
Funny part is, EA would get a tax break out of it for donating, so it all still comes down to money in the end. :P
Just out of interest – why is it too soon? Who exactly does it offend? Islamic fundamentalists? If we were talking about a game where you play a firefighter pulling people out of the twin towers I could understand the sentiment behind “too soon”, but I don’t get it in this context.
Kuma (spelling?) has been making very recent military operations into playable game packs for YEARS now and have already made the Bin Laden mission way back whenever they did it.
As long as it is true and faithful than where is the crime…