Here we go again: A Chilean advertisement for PS3, created by major ad firm BBDO, has become the source of a great deal of controversy for showing a modern day gamer giving a blood transfusion ...
to a Nazi! The National Socialist in question is intended to be
Erwin Rommel, a German field marshal whose humane treatment of captive soldiers and refusal to kill Jewish civilians made him a fairly respected military figure -- but we doubt the casual observer's initial reaction to the ad goes much further than, "Oh gawd, is that a ... swastika!"
Then again, after being accused of
promoting racism and endorsing, nay,
providing instructions on suicide, accusations of harboring Nazi sympathies is kind of
par for the course for Sony's PlayStation advertising. Check out the full advertisement -- as well as a similar, equally perplexing ad depicting a gamer giving his still-beating heart to Joan of Arc -- after the jump.
(By the way, we'll be patrolling comments on this post for any invocation of
Godwin's Law. Keep it civil, gang.)
[Via
Engadget]
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