Sony Canada Pulls Killzone 2 Ads

[OzzofAsura]

That Helghast head on the Killzone 2 boxart? Yeah, it's pretty menacing. So menacing, in fact, that the advertisements containing said terrifying head have been pulled from Toronto bus stops everywhere.

According to the Toronto Star (via Kotaku), the ads were pulled after teacher Davis Mirza emailed Sony Canada to complain about the Killzone 2 ads in the bus shelter near his school. Mirza said that his kids "come from a lot of different countries, who have to experience violence" and that the ads are "stuff they don't need to see."

Mirza described the central image of the Helghast as "a menacing head with glowing eyes," and the background as a warzone "like Iraq."

"I don't think that when you're in Scarborough, where we're having to deal on a constant basis with violence, that does anything to help promote any kind of community renewal or even responsibility," he said.

Sony Canada responded by pulling the ads from the bus shelter, and more were pulled after similar complaints were received in a different area. Now it looks like Sony is just doing away with the bus shelter campaign altogether.

"They were coming down at the end of the week; we just asked them to speed up the process," said Sony Canada public relations specialist Kyle Moffatt.

Good plan. Can't have those Helghast holding back community renewal for too long.

Sony Canada Pulls Killzone 2 Ads Bearing "Menacing Head": News from 1UP.com

[Insanecyclone]

So they hate things with glowing red eyes? Does it look like the devil or something?

[OzzofAsura]

The thing that pisses me off the most is... You are forcing people to make a correlation between this and the Iraq War, just by bringing it up. I never associated this with any present day conflicts, and I still don't aside from *trying* to imagine what this guy is thinking of. He must be one bored, ass.

If this relates to ANYTHING having to do with real life, it's World War II, as the Helghast are very Nazi-like and Radec is like that one famous Nazi General, Rommel I think. Visari doesn't strike me as Hitler though. Also, the attack in the beginning seems very reminiscent of Normandy.

[Kazen]

Its not even that bad lol, and for anyone who hasnt seen it...

These are the red eyes they are talking about.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...4L._SS400_.jpg

[Cydewinder]

Oh thanks Kazen, now I won't be able to sleep at night. ; ;

[OzzofAsura]

Oh thanks Kazen, now I won't be able to sleep at night. ; ;

You'll probably never be able to sleep again. Aren't you shaken to the core? I know I am...

[Cydewinder]

I always keep my KZ2 case facedown to avoid it, those damn Helghast.

[OzzofAsura]

I always keep my KZ2 case facedown to avoid it, those damn Helghast.

LMFAO! I keep it between CoD4 and Rainbow Six so those guys keep on eye on that sneaky Helghast bastard for me. Solid Snake watches on occasion too, between cigarettes and naps.

[Mayareira]

It reminds me the horrible photos taken by cameras without red eye reduction years ago. Tsk tsk tsk.

[Tomiko]

LMFAO! I keep it between CoD4 and Rainbow Six so those guys keep on eye on that sneaky Helghast bastard for me. Solid Snake watches on occasion too, between cigarettes and naps.

lol, I love this thread.

[Norelco]

I hate how it only takes 1 fuckwad for a company to react to something as stupid as this. In this instance I hope /b/ goes after him.

[Takedown3]

good

[Ziero]

This is exactly what Cartman tried to pull on family guy, one person complains and gets their way, so everyone will complain and get their way!

[Day]

What is this shit lol, I blame bagged milk.

[OzzofAsura]

I hate how it only takes 1 fuckwad for a company to react to something as stupid as this. In this instance I hope /b/ goes after him.

That's part of what pissed me off most. A couple people were unhappy with it? What about all the people who looked at it and said "Cool!" and it made their day a little brighter?

A Hope a Helghast gets this guy. And not the dumb ones, the ones that run after you with knives.

What is this shit lol, I blame bagged milk.

It is the root of all that is wrong in this world. The milk in my fridge stands up by its damn self.

[Koyuki]

The kicker is that the ads were coming down at the end of the week anyways, not like it hurt Sony in any way shape or form. Still pretty fucking retarded that the teacher got an "iraq" vibe from the posters.

[Null]

1- Buy helmet with red eyes.

2- Invade Canada

3- ????

4- Profit

[Pikarya]

This is about as bad when the whole fucking Middle East went emo over the song in LBP.

[OzzofAsura]

This is about as bad when the whole fucking Middle East went emo over the song in LBP.

That was worse. That really pissed me off. People can be such whiny little bitches, it's pathetic. If you're that bothered by things SO trivial, then you should probably just pack it up and off yourself.

[OzzofAsura]

Another one, last paragraph is win. Destructoid.com

"Following the pulling of Killzone 2 adverts in Toronto, it seems that a nearby bus company is jumping on the bandwagon. The York Region Transit line of bus shelters had received a complaint about the "scary" poster, but ignored it until Sony Canada starting pulling them in Toronto. Now the company has sprung into action with quickness and efficiency.

On its own, this story isn't really news, but the nature of the complaint is just too funny to ignore. A three-year-old boy refused to go to school after seeing the Killzone 2 ad, complete with glaring, red-eyed Helghast mask. According to his father, the boy genuinely thought that a Helghast "monster" would be in the school, waiting to get him.

"He really thought what he saw was going to be inside the complex," explained Mr. Rennie.

While it's unfair, wrong and blatantly immature to mock an innocent and naive child, I'm still going to do it. What a stupid idiot, doesn't he even know that they're not real? I know that. Such a moronic little dickhead, actually. If I were his father, I'd have hit him in the head and given the little coward something real to be frightened of.

Crybaby."