The Church of England has threatened legal action against Sony after it used a cathedral without permission as the backdrop to an ultra-violent computer game.
Church leaders have accused Sony of the "desecration" of Manchester Cathedral, after the firm set one of its top-selling games inside the place of worship.
The new Play-Station3 game, titled Resistance: Fall of Man, which has sold more than one million copies, sees a virtual shoot-out between rival gunman with hundreds killed during a gun battle inside the cathedral in an orgy of blood.
Church officials described Sony's use of the building as "sick" and sacrilegious.
The Church say Sony did not ask for permission to use the cathedral and has demanded an apology and the removal of the game from shop shelves - otherwise legal action will be considered.
Sony has not returned calls to officials from the Church.
The firm is also branded irresponsible for choosing Manchester - a city plagued by gun violence which has left tens of youngsters dead.
The Bishop of Manchester, the Rt Rev Nigel McCulloch, said; "It is well known that Manchester has a gun crime problem.
"For a global manufacturer to re-create one of our great Cathedrals with photo-realistic quality and then encourage people to have guns battles in the building is beyond belief and highly irresponsible.
"Here in Manchester we do all we can to support communities through our parish clergy, we know the reality of gun crime and the devastating effects it can have on the lives - it is not a trivial matter."
You sure this isnt one of those fake BBC reports....
Two words....
The Crusades
The Church is responsible for some of the worst violence in the history of the world.
I reckon this is a ploy to get publicity for the Church of England's upcoming game:
The Sermonator
Where you can choose between different styled Priests and go around vaporizing heathen console game players.
Kill a Wii player and get 5 points, 360 players is 10 points and a PS3 player is 20 points.
You sure this isnt one of those fake BBC reports....
Two words....
The Crusades
The Church is responsible for some of the worst violence in the history of the world.
I reckon this is a ploy to get publicity for the Church of England's upcoming game:
The Sermonator
Where you can choose between different styled Priests and go around vaporizing heathen console game players.
Kill a Wii player and get 5 points, 360 players is 10 points and a PS3 player is 20 points.
No i'm sure this isn't fake, do you think they will take legal action?
Wait, they have a church internationally copyrighted? That doesn't make sense. Even if, they'd only have to remove the church from stores in England seeing as The Church of england isn't a US citizen.
If they don't get satisfaction then they will take SONY to court..
What a joke...
The scene is a classic good vs evil.. They should be happy that the game is about fighting creatures hell bent on human destruction.
Its not anti-religeous at all..
The worst outcome of this is that Insomniac will be forced to remove that level from the game. They wont be able to ban the whole game.
how stupit, the most people, that play that game, probraly don't go to the church and don't even recognize it.
I can't even remeber how the church in my village looks like.
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