User blog comment:TheKnightOfOyashiro/A new videogame none of you have probably heard about.../@comment-1427137-20110529011623/@comment-1427137-20110529013713

Well, considering there are hundreds of games on the American market where we're killing Russians, Chinese, vague Middle Eastern armies/paramilitary groups, I can't say I'm bothered... A bit concerned, but not bothered in the slightest. Although, I am Canadian...

I mean, I've always wanted a game in which we could play as the "enemies".

The US/PRC relations haven't always been at their best, but that's usually concerning things close to China, like its friendliness to North Korea, and its relative hostility against Taiwan and the anti-Japanese sentiment, but that these could be affected by a video game is just... stupid.

I suppose it depends in what light they show these American enemies as. In Dragon Rising, we were the US fighting the PLA, but the PLA were displayed in such a faceless and neutral fashion that it wouldn't make anybody think that China was literally an enemy to the US. Plus, this was put in an utterly fictional situation, and on a very small scale.

If this game were to be similar in that sense, it couldn't possibly cause widespread controversy, except with over-patriotic Americans that really cannot stand seeing themselves, or others, kill a US soldier, or for naive Chinese gamers.

We'd need to know more on the game to truly reach a verdict.