“I can’t bear it, especially the vicious vilifying of our people. They must be taught a lesson, … As a Chinese lawyer, I have the obligation to protect the rights of all Chinese.”
Liu Lin, a Beijing lawyer, is attempting to sue IO Interactive and Square Enix for insulting the dignity of all Chinese. The amount? 10,000 yuan (~$1,500 USD) compensation from the two companies located in Denmark and Japan, respectively.
Liu’s upset with how foreigners come to learn of China in movies, TV and now video games. According to Liu, the Shanghai of Kane and Lynch is not a happy one—the game’s depiction of the Chinese populous as cowardly and timid have sent him over the edge (though, we can’t be sure if it was just how abysmal the game itself was…)
The Global Times has more on the story. The only problem, of course, is the accuracy of the game’s description and goal. It’s hard to believe people associate the crime-infested slums you visit in the game to China overall, but even so, at no point are you killing anyone that isn’t already firing at you.
The whole thing seems to be a weird knee-jerk reaction to something that isn’t even available in the Chinese market commercially. Hopefully none of you had the wrong idea about China after playing the game. What, with all the news reports about their outstanding human rights, treatment of activists, and that Tibet/Dalai Lama thing… But, as we’re all aware, when it comes to vidja games, anything’s fair game.
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