Tuesday, October 21, 2008
The Little or the Big Planet?
How will you make the planet if you could do it? Maybe with a lot of sackboys and sackgirls hanging around. Well, if you have a PS3, now you can do it. Well, not really now, but in a couple of weeks. Not now because Sony decided to postpone the launch on the market of its new game, Little Big Planet, because of some text contained in the soudtrack. This game is a real revolution and it is supposed to be the killer app for the PS3 console, revolutioning the game experience and expecially the share and multiplayer gaming. The plot is very simple. You are a small sackboy that goes around the world, not differently then Mario used to do. But, you are not alone. Other sackboys and sackgirs are going around with you, and you have to cohoperate in order to succeed the level (video. Also, and this is the big news, you can build your own world. Not with an editor, but during the game (video). After, you can share your world with others, online, and let them play it, while you are playing theirs. Check on youtube what people managed to do, it's really impressive. The point is that one betatester noticed that in one song there are some quotes from the Coran, and he pointed it out in the sony forum. Immediately, Sony decided to stop the release of the game, already printed in blue ray and delivered to many stores, recall all the beta copies and postpone the release date with a patched version that will not contain the song. Many discussions about this event has grown in the web, and many hypothesis about why this really happened popped out. Some people think that muslim reaction was exagerated, as at the end it's only a game and there were only few sentences. Some people think that Sony didn't stop the production because of the Coran itself but because of the meaning of these sentences :"Every soul shall have the taste of death" and "All that is on earth will perish" that may have affected the "family" sticker on the game (with consequences on the number of sold copies...). Some people think that it only a fast way to get some advertisement (I wouldn't say cheap, anyway). The composer of the music is a muslim musician, and he claimed that: "It's quite normal to play music and be inspired by the words of the Prophet Mohammed. It's my way to attract and inspire people towards Islam", which I think make sense. Nevertheless he got a fast reply from the islamic community: "Muslims believe the Qur'an to be the actual word of god and give it utmost respect. Therefore if it were to be used with the accompaniment of music or if it were to be used in a game or a commercial - that would upset and cause offense and hurt to many, many Muslims." . This, applied to christians, will end with forbidding most of Chrismas songs and cartoons... Is it the belief of the most or just of the few who like to speak and to be center of the attention? I agree that respect must be given to all belief and traditions, but all this mess for a game and not even the game itself, but only a very tiny part of a song? By the way, here you can listen to the song that creates this hype... What do you think?
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4 comments:
Si, io non capisco perche` la Sony l'abbia tolto in zero senza nemmeno aspettare il test dei mercati...
Che abbiano cosi` tanti interessi nel paesi arabi? (Non credo.)
O dici che l'hanno fatto veramente per pubblicita`?
Non so se è pubblicità, anche perché il gioco era già molto atteso, e hanno dovuto spendere parecchi soldi per ristampare tutti i br. secondo me la tesi del bollino "family" non è scema, perché in america può veramente moltiplicare le vendite di parecchio.....
sè già due volte che cerco de leavar un comment e blogger me dise "non funziono"...
comunque: aldilà delle polemiche islamiche che secondo mi vedemo solo filtrade dall'apparato occidentale - cosa me consigliè fra wii e ps3? considerà che me piasi i gioghetti colorati piuttosto che gioghi de sparar in prima persona o roba de guerra?
mz
beh, noi abbiamo la ps3 (presa in giappone per cui l'abbiam pagata come un game boy) per cui nell'eventualita` che tu ti prenda la ps3 esuello possiamo NIENTEPOPODIMENOCHE diventare amici di ps3!
e magari anche scriver un dialogo tra la nostra ps3 e la tua..
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