So, EA made a game about the war in Afghanistan. Did you know they also tried to make one about the war in Iraq?
https://kotaku.com/medal-of-honors-its-just-a-game-argument-a-missed-opp-5608737
Danny Bilson, who used to be an executive at EA before leaving to join rivals THQ, says “When I worked at my former company [EA], I had to go to the UK in the middle of the Iraq war and try to talk to them about a game that we never wound up finishing – it was well built up – that was that stuff, right? Remember, even in America you get a 50/50 split on this stuff.”
Two disappointing tales of modern warfare in one night from EA? What are the odds. Though in this case, being a few years back when the Iraq war was at its lowest ebb, maybe binning it was the right idea, at least from a business perspective; politics be damned, who’s going to be buying a game based on a war nobody wants to talk about? One that’s never exactly been “popular”, even compared to the conflict in Afghanistan?
Nobody. Just ask poor Korea!
THQ’s Danny Bilson pt. 2 [CVG]
