Canadians are starting to wonder why their Prime Minister got the short end of the hockey stick when it came to which North American leaders would survive Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter:Adrian Fernandez-Lacey, a senior co-ordinator for Ubisoft in France, said Canadians shouldn't take offence to the assassination.
The other leaders had to live to keep the game's tension high: Mexico's president needed to hang around to allow conflict with the rebels, while the U.S. president had remain alive because the elite group of soldiers charged with the rescue are American.
"Basically, for the game, the Canadian guy was the only one that we could actually sacrifice in the story," he said. "We weren't being malicious or anything like that."
In fact, it was Mr. Fernandez-Lacey who took offence at first. Because he was born in Montreal and is half-Canadian and half-Mexican, he joked with the game's creators about hitting him on two fronts.
"When they first sent the scenario to me, I said, 'Look, you're invading my country and you're killing my prime minister,' "
Poor Canucks get no respect. It's bad enough that most Americans can't name a Canadian politician. Now French game developers have deemed them expendable.
The real Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, was in Mexico last week meeting with Presidents Fox and Bush. Not surprisingly, he was unwilling to comment on the unpleasant fate that befell his video game counterpart.
1. It is true that mostly no Americans know who are prime minister is yet every Canadian knows who the US president is. For our countries being so closely related, Im surprised actually of the lack of knowledge. I wouldent expect you to know the president of timbuck2, but you should for your friendly neighbours up north.
As for the game being about rescuing the president of America, well thats just following EVERY war game ever made. Imagine they made a Ghost Recon 4, where the Canadian Prime minister was Kid-naped and you played as the Canadian special forces and had to rescue him. Despite the fact that the game would be just as good combat as all the other GR games, It would not sell well at all. There would be thousands of Americans who would not even play it because it did not feature the US soilders their so used to. I would actually like to play some war games as a Candian soilder for once. Heck, I would even like to play some war games as a British, German (You get to be the bad guys!!!) or other Nationalities. Im kinda getting tired always playing the American in a single player War game.
But these game companies need to tailor to numbers I guess, and the US population is like 10x larger then Canada so they need to make games that appeal to the masses I guess.
How many of you Americans would actually be interested in playing a game where you are a Canadian soilder? I dont think very many of you would.
Posted at 12:51AM on Apr 4th 2006 by mike 0 stars