Sony pulls game featuring terrorists

The Globe & Mail reports that Sony Entertainment will pull a scene featuring terrorists attacking a Toronto shopping mall from the final version of its latest installment in the best-selling Playstation 2 series Syphon Filter 4. Game players were instructed to “mow down” the terrorists, who were identified as being from Quebec.

Opponents of the game said that the theme was close to hate propoganda. The overall mission for the series is to stop a global terrorist consortium from unleashing a fictional a biological weapon that could kill millions.

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