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Article: OUTRAGE AT SICK VIETNAM NAPALM GAME; Computer giants refuse to apologise despite protests from war victims.(News)
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- Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
- Article date:
- April 4, 2004
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Byline: TOM WELLS
VIETNAMESE expats have blasted a sick computer game which glamorises the horror of the Vietnam War -and deadly Napalm bombs. Battlefield Vietnam tells players: 'Grab your M-16, ready the Napalm, and prepare to enter some of the fiercest battles of the Vietnam War.'
But the large Midlands Vietnamese community says it is outraged by the game which has a 16 age limit.
They say it trivialises a conflict which cost two million lives and which is infamous for its use of chemical weapons like Napalm and ...