Fashionable Warfare II‘s Breenbergh Resort map’s days could be numbered

The Name of Responsibility sequence has featured digital recreations of actual locations for years, together with all the pieces from  for the newly-released Fashionable Warfare II, that features a entire degree that’s meant to copy the streets of Amsterdam intently to actual life as attainable. That included a resort referred to as the Conservatorium, which is certainly stunning, but it surely appears the administration is displeased with the constructing’s inclusion within the recreation as a Fashionable Warfare II map.

As initially reported by Dutch newspaper de Volkskrant (and translated by PC Gamer), the resort’s supervisor Roy Tomassen has launched an announcement implying that they may take authorized motion in opposition to Activision. “Breenbergh” is the extent in query, and options the resort in each a multiplayer map, in addition to within the single-player marketing campaign as half of a bigger map that recreates the streets of Amsterdam.

“We have now taken be aware of the truth that the Conservatorium Resort is undesirably the scene of the brand new Name of Responsibility. Extra usually, we don’t assist video games that appear to encourage using violence. The sport by no means displays our core values ​​and we remorse our obvious and undesirable involvement,” Tomassen stated.

“Breenbergh” shouldn’t be the one map shrouded in controversy over its recreation of a real-world place — the Valderas Museum map was closely featured within the Fashionable Warfare II beta, and is an eerily correct illustration of the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. One of the uncanny experiences I’ve had in video games was working round and capturing at enemies on the Valderas map, all of the whereas picturing the nice afternoons I had spent hanging out with mates in that actual spot.

Seems the Getty wasn’t too happy concerning the recreation utilizing the sport’s well-known structure, so the map is not current within the closing recreation. Appears like Breenburgh could be headed towards the identical destiny, as a result of imagine it or not, buildings and structure can really be copyrighted, so within the eyes of the regulation, Activision was really within the incorrect.