Canadians are starting to wonder why
their Prime Minister got the short end of the
hockey stick when it came to which North American leaders would survive Ghost Recon: Advanced
Warfighter:Adrian Fernandez-Lacey, a senior co-ordinator for Ubisoft in France, said Canadians shouldn't take offence to the assassination.
The other leaders had to live to keep the game's tension high: Mexico's president needed to hang around to allow conflict with the rebels, while the U.S. president had remain alive because the elite group of soldiers charged with the rescue are American.
"Basically, for the game, the Canadian guy was the only one that we could actually sacrifice in the story," he said. "We weren't being malicious or anything like that."
In fact, it was Mr. Fernandez-Lacey who took offence at first. Because he was born in Montreal and is half-Canadian and half-Mexican, he joked with the game's creators about hitting him on two fronts.
"When they first sent the scenario to me, I said, 'Look, you're
invading my country and you're killing my prime minister,' "
Poor Canucks get no respect. It's
bad enough that most Americans can't name a Canadian politician. Now French game developers have deemed them
expendable.
The real Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, was in Mexico last week meeting with
Presidents Fox and Bush. Not surprisingly, he was unwilling to comment on the unpleasant fate that befell his video game
counterpart.
