Mon, Mar 11, 2013 | 05:43 GMT
Assassin’s Creed screenshot used on Danish news
Whoops. Denmark’s TV2 used a screenshot from Assassin’s Creed, showing Damascus of 720 years ago, to illustrate a news article on conflict in present-day Syria, Times of Israel reports. An employee is said to have found the image online and believed it to be a photograph. This sort of embarrassing mixup happens all the time; the BBC once used a Halo logo instead of the UN’s, and ITV famously presented footage of ArmA 2 as video of actual combat.
Thanks, Kotaku.
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Posted in: Denmark
Tags: Assassin's Creed
8 comments
#1
alterecho
11/03/13, 6:21 am
I bet the graphics designers would take this as a compliment. A testament to how far graphics have come.
#2
xxJPRACERxx
11/03/13, 6:24 am
Yep… And they’re here to inform! lol
#3
Puggy
11/03/13, 7:09 am
Still might be a copyright issue though. Then again it is free advertising for the company, so I doubt any charges will be pressed.
#4
SyNx153
11/03/13, 7:18 am
lol
#5
Takeshi
11/03/13, 8:05 am
As a fellow Dane, this is pretty fun. I do think it was a mistake and not an intentional joke from one of the assistants. I think most young people who work at TV2 are serious. And if they have a problem distinguishing between computer generated images and real life images they are going to have to be extra aware as we go into the new generation of consoles.
Funnily it was Assassins Creed (a game limited by consoles) and not Battlefield 3 which was mistaken.
#6
JimFear-666
11/03/13, 9:41 am
you know that your country has evolved when they can take a picture representing your country 720yrs ago and no one say “hey this isnt the right picture”
/sarcasm
#7
MadFingerz
11/03/13, 1:16 pm
How can one look at that picture and not see it isn’t a real photograph? -_-’
Sorry, but those can only either be jokes or examples of pure unprofessionalism (mixed with pure idiocy).
#8
nklh4x0r
11/03/13, 2:13 pm
lol noobs