A new Gamescom trailer is making waves due to its controversial content. The trailer in question is for Ubisoft\u2019s upcoming stealth title Splinter Cell: Blacklist, which should release early next year.<\/p>\n
The trailer showcases much of the same of what we saw at E3, but the conflict comes in when you use an analogue stick to torture a guy \u2013 twisting a knife in his clavicle. You\u2019re then giving a moral choice \u2013 kill him, or spare him.<\/p>\n
“Sam will do whatever it takes to retrieve crucial information before it’s too late,” creative director Maxime Beland explained.<\/p>\n
One person who was particularly upset by the content was Gears of War: Judgment co-writer Tom Bissell, who called the torture scene “a blithe, shrugging presentation of the very definition of human evil, all in the name of ‘entertainment.'”<\/p>\n
“We’ve arrived in a strange emotional clime when our popular entertainment frequently depicts torture as briskly effective rather than literally the worst thing one human being can do to another – yea verily, worse even than killing.”<\/p>\n
“I spent a couple days feeling ashamed of being a gamer, of playing or liking military games, of being interested in any of this disgusting bulls*** at all,” he went on to say.<\/p>\n
Check out the trailer for yourself, and let us know how you feel about it in the comments. Has Ubisoft gone a bit too far?<\/p>\n