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: GamePolitics.comItalian American Group Slams Mafia II
By james_fudge
Italian American organization UNICO National is not happy with Take-Two Interactive (or rather, Illusion Softworks') portrayal of Italians in Mafia II, according to Gamasutra. Although UNICO president Andre DiMino hasn't actually played the game (it comes out August 24) he still finds the game's portrayal of Italian Americans reprehensible, calling it a "pile of racist nonsense."
DiMino apparently wrote a strongly worded letter to Take-Two chairman Strauss Zelnick asking for a meeting and informing him that he found offensive the way Mafia II delivers a "denigrating stereotype of organized crime being the exclusive domain of Italians and Italian-Americans." Of course, as I mentioned earlier, he hasn't actually played the game.
Here's a bit more from DiMino: Read More
Full post as published by GamePolitics.com on August 18, 2010 (boomark / email).
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