Danes Mistake Assassin's Creed Screenshot For Modern Syria

[Abomination]

hahahahaha!

Imagine if you could see Altiar at the top of one of those towers!

It would be funny if it was a video and in the distance is some dude in white stabbing motherfuckers.

"Modern day Syria!"

 

[SomeLameStuff]

Just like that ARMA II incident huh?

Someone's getting fired!~

 

[Ickabod]

Facts are optional these days when it comes to the media.

 

[Kaltazraza]

Yay news about my country, even if it's stupid news it's good!

 

[Froggy Slayer]

They should of noticed that this isn't modern day Syria from the suspicious lack of cars, modern building designs and bullet-ridden corpses littering the streets.

 

[Zen Toombs]

I, for one, think it's really cool that graphics have advanced enough that this sort of thing can happen. I mean, it's not like the New York of Deus Ex would get confused for the actual New York.

 

[VoodooPuppeteer]

That would make sight-seeing in Damascus a whole new experience - randomly walking down a side-street when someone dressed in white jumps headlong into a cart of hay off a very high up perch... only to keeps going and plow straight out the bottom, or walking through the market and seeing a similarly dressed person push people out of the way, stumble, and then pick themselves up and keep on going, followed closely by a troop of angry guardsmen, in a manner somewhat akin to Benny Hill; aah yes, I hear Syria is lovely this time of year...

 

[kailus13]

Seems kind of insulting to Syrians that whoever found that picture didn't think "Hmm, this does seem to be a bit too... tan."

"And everything seems so... not on fire. What gives?

Give it time. (smoke in the distance) There you go.

On Topic: You'd think it would be fairly easy to tell the difference between videogames and reality, but I suppose news sources always try to argue otherwise.

 

[Lugbzurg]

Didn't something like this happen recently with some sort of military-type logo from the Halo series?

 

[FEichinger]

ya hear that?
that's the Ubisoft design team high-fiving eachother!

This actually happened: https://twitter.com/Ubisoft/status/311160320129392640

 

[The Funslinger]

What is sad is this kind of thing isn't even that rare. The two major British broadcasters have each done something similar, as well as many major US news networks.

Like when the BBC thought the UNSC was an actual military branch?

 

[Legion]

What is sad is this kind of thing isn't even that rare. The two major British broadcasters have each done something similar, as well as many major US news networks.

Like when the BBC thought the UNSC was an actual military branch?

That one has to be my favourite.

Although the most idiotic goes to this one.

I mean, wow.

 

[weirdee]

I liked the case of the mech on that one test the most.

 

[talker]

So does this say more about the realism of video game graphics, or the stupidity of news stations?

both!