The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has announced that publisher and developer Capcom has agreed to remove a common Islamic phrase from its forthcoming Wii title Zack & Wiki after receiving complaints from CAIR and others.
Said CAIR communications coordinator Amina Rubin, "We appreciated Capcom's willingness to address Muslim concerns and applaud the company's swift and appropriate actions."
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I'm glad Chinatown Wars is there. This is one of the best GTAs in the series. Right up there with 5 and SA. Get the DS version. You won't be disappointed. Also like to add that the wanted system in GTACTW is by far my favorite of any GTA.
I think mine would be
Majin and the Forsaken Kingdom
Tastunoko V Capcom
House of the Dead Overkill
Deadly Premonition
Sam and Max
Honestly I think this last gen had a lot of overlooked titles or at least titles that didn't see the amount of sales they should have. It makes me worry for the future of the current generation.
The Club might have been a new idea , but it doesnt mean that all of those are good .
And Deadly preomonition was hardly overlooked . It's a game that had a bigger than expected and deserved success based on the weird hype "that's it so bad you gotta play it and gonna love it" (an opinion i dont share)
Since the game came out I've been trying to get EVERYONE to play it, thus it popped up on this list, it's still not very well known in the UK
Really liked WWE All Stars, never got to play it online as the servers went down by the time I picked it up.
James Day of Citizengame.co.uk makes Pete and Andy try a game that they’ve never played nor heard of. In this edition of Blind Playtest they play Zack & Wiki for the Wii
Zack & Wiki was one of my favourite games of last generation, and one of the few Wii games I actually enjoyed.
If Nintendo do not snap up a sequel, I hope Sony or Microsoft do.
Inventive use of the Wiimote, even before motion plus.
This was a fun game, and wracked my brain on a few puzzles.
Now I'm just guessing here, but this game's unfortunate failure probably contributed to what turned Capcom how they are today; that is a risk-less company who tries to do everything they possibly can to not lose or miss out on a dime.
Thats not an offensive phrase (God is great) so why remove it!? Why everyone thinks so bad of games? We have endless movies using the phrase and some of them even abuse it but in family friendly game like this, I dont think there's any harm.
The worlds gone too sensetive again
I'm just glad this was caught before the game was actually released. Seems surprising that CAIR would discover this but I'm sure it was just brought to their attention by a muslim gamer.
It would've been horrible for this game to be recalled, as Matt over at IGN seems pretty adamant that this'll be a sleeper hit.
i'd love to give capcom a bubble for this.
we should always pay attention to other people's feelings,
I'm usually a pretty tolerant guy, but something about this just peeves me. So just because this religious group doesn't want this phrase in this game, they get their way? Then why was the phrase there in the first place? There had to be a reason Capcom put it there. I realize Capcom made this change because it's really not a big deal and they're just avoiding worlds of conflict, but it's just that: this isn't a big deal but this CAIR has to make a huge stink about it. So, is CAIR not offended by the killing in Manhunt or the crime in Grand Theft Auto? I guess not, but God help us gamers if they were, or else we may be playing E for Everyone versions of GTA IV. My point is, I don't like the idea of these organizations that couldn't care less about videogames having any sway over what goes into them.
Now, I should probably just add that I hope my comment doesn't offend anyone, as it wasn't intended. Also, I have nothing against the Islamic faith -- I would be just as peeved if a Christian, Hebrew, etc. group did this. If you'd like to reply, please make it mature.