Last month we reported that Battlefield 3 had been banned in Iran due to the fact that the game depicts US armour and aircraft launching an assault on Tehran.
A Tehran-based IT union warned all shops to abide by the ban.
The Iran scenario sees US forces fighting hostile militia near the Iraq-Iran border then moving on to Tehran under a looming nuclear threat. Intense gunfights are depicted in various military, industrial and urban locations in the capital, including Tehran’s historic Grand Bazaar.
Interestingly, EA does not have any official reseller for Battlefield 3 in Iran, and the only copies that were being sold at retail were pirated.
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In a retaliatory move, Iran will be developing its own game. Speaking to FARS News Agency over the weekend, Executive-Manager of Iran’s National Foundation of Computer Games Behrooz Minaei said that the foundation will fund the project, and announced that many Iranian computer game programmers have voiced preparedness to contribute a role in the project.
Minaei said that Battlefield 3 is riddled with “technical and video faults” and that the use of Tehran as a location in the game is “unacceptable”. He also said that Iran has sent letters to Electronic Arts and voiced its protest at Battlefield 3. EA has not responded to the letter yet.
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