Now, let’s not kid ourselves, gaming still gets a bad rap in a lot of the media.
ITV is one of those outlets that seems to have a something against gaming. So, I find it a bit strange that ITV recently used footage from ARMA II and passed it off as actual footage of an IRA attack from 1988.
http://youtu.be/h6r-kNct630
That’s pretty low and even lower once you realise that they used this footage in a documentary. The documentary itself is called ‘Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA’, if you want to go watch it.
Bohemia Interactive’s CEO, Marek Spanel, is as confused as we are. “Sometimes creativity and realism in our games lead into crazy results and this is one of such example,” he said to PC Gamer.
“I just briefly watched the entire documentary and I still can not believe it as it is overall [a] very serious and lengthy feature.”
Source: PC Gamer
Sab7786
lmao how shocking is that! ITV have really hit a new low here
Origami Killer
How they thought no one would notice that is beyond me :L ydy shocker
Peco
“No one died in this attack.”
Jas-n
Even they lied there… some code died… let’s take a moment.
allen46
Real footage http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIgNj43S9sE
Unterred
Absolutely incredible. Amazed at the sheer cheek of it!
Porcupine_I
Shoddy Documentarism!
Starman
Eager to hear ITV’s explanation for this
CdmanJak
oh god are they serious headdesk
moshi
I would like all my news reports like this.
KeRaSh
They should have waited for the BF3 beta to get some realistic looking footage…
Rocket_345
Ah but freezes and other bugs would give it away.
KeRaSh
It would still look more fluid and realistic than the footage that they used…