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PETA Claims Whaling In Assassin's Creed IV Is "Disgraceful"

Posted on Tuesday, March 5 @ 07:30:37 Eastern by Alex_Osborn

In case you didn't already know, Assassin's Creed IV will allow players to hunt whales in the game's vast open ocean. Naturally, animal rights group PETA has a major problem with this.

The organization provided VentureBeat with the following statement:

Whaling—that is, shooting whales with harpoons and leaving them to struggle for an hour or more before they die or are hacked apart while they are still alive—may seem like something out of the history books, but this bloody industry still goes on today in the face of international condemnation, and it’s disgraceful for any game to glorify it.

PETA encourages video game companies to create games that celebrate animals—not games that promote hurting and killing them.

We still have yet to see how it will be handled in actual gameplay situations, but if you ask me, I think PETA is making a huge deal out of nothing. After all, this isn't the first time the organization has taken issue with video games.

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Related Games: Assassin's Creed IV: Black Flag

Tags: Assassin's Creed, Ubisoft, PETA

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xavier_2000_ie
Joined: Jun 2007

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 7:54 am
Its a video game. When will these people dig their heads out of their asses and leave us gamers to our games

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Alex_Osborn
Joined: Jan 2012

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:22 am
When Ubisoft makes a "save the rainforest" game.

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moretokes
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 2:05 pm
It's history

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wildmario
Joined: Jan 2007

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:00 am
PETA, always good for a laugh

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HorriblePerson
Joined: Sep 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:07 am
I don't see the UN complaining about the murder of hundreds of your fellow (virtual) men. They'll get over it.

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SolidSevchinko78
Joined: Jun 2012

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:22 am
Umm. PETA its a video game, so yeah the whales aren't real. So what's the big deal?

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Axelownz
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:23 am
If i want to hunt fake videogame whales i should be able to. Its not like i am promoting actual whaling or anything. At the end of the day its a game and thats it. I really doubt hunting whales in AC4 is gonna get anyone to pick up illegal whaling.

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moretokes
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 2:06 pm
I think I might do some illegal assassinations

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Nether
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:32 am
PETA just wants something to get attention about, personally I think we should be able to hunt THEM instead.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:13 pm
How could you thumb this man down?!

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LawnGnome
Joined: Apr 2007

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:34 am
PETA is right you guys! Whaling in a video game might influence us to do it in real life. One day you're killing some virtual whales with a 360 controller, the next you're slinging harpoons off of Nantucket in search of precious ambergris.

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airbob110
Joined: Dec 2006

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 8:56 am
I always thought Nantucket sleighrides look like a ton of fun.

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friggest
Joined: Mar 2008

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 9:25 am
Are you starting a crew? Cause I'm in.

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SolidSevchinko78
Joined: Jun 2012

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 6:26 pm
I'm in too!!!

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:27 pm
Whaling road trip!

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napsterxxl
Joined: Mar 2006

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 9:08 am
Just for that they should make Captain Ahab a playable or a multiplayer character

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UghRochester
Joined: Jun 2006

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 9:18 am
When I read "PETA." I usually keep scrolling down. Just commenting here to inform that. Didn't read the article, because I saw a picture of what looks to be a whale. So, I can only guess PETA doesn't like people attacking whales in the game?

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kingslayer
Joined: Jan 2013

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 9:29 am
So PETA has no issues when players skin animals in Far Cry 3 or Assassins Creed 3 but they have a problem with whaling in a game that hasnt been released now? Seriously? I guess in the future theyll ***** if you step on a bug or something....

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Lien
Joined: Feb 2008

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 9:57 am
What ever anyone does, do NOT mention Herman Melville to a PETA member. It's like the bezerker button for them. They'll rip you to pieces!

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sonicfast
Joined: Mar 2013

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 10:07 am
I dont see what the big deal is, yes, its wrong killing animals but like other comments say, "this are not real animals, their just computer animation". Lets not forget that there are other games that fall on the same behavior, Far Cry for example, you hunt animals in order to build new bags and other accesories and knowing you have to actually use a gun to deffend yourself and then skin them pffffff PETA please dont hate games.

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Sourdeez
Joined: Feb 2012

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 10:27 am
There is nothing wrong with experiencing taboo things in a safe virtual environment. No one if getting hurt.

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DaVillain
Joined: Apr 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 10:46 am
Last year PETA euthanized a over 2,000 animals and placed only about 7 in homes Those douches have no right to talk about saving ANY animals. They are just attention whores.

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De-Ting
Joined: Nov 2006

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 10:58 am
You're disgraceful, PETA.

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Diabolus
Joined: Nov 2008

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 11:55 am
I think there should be a hidden area where you get to kill members of PETA.

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hovdog
Joined: May 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 12:30 pm
Sweet! I'll be able to listen to my 20 minute live version of John Bonham's drum solo, "Moby Dick," 3 times through while watching in awe as my harpooned whale struggles to death. Then I'll make a drum set out of his bones. I'm pretty sure that's what Ahab really wanted. And now I can experience the dream from the comfort of my own home.

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:16 pm
Don't forget to throw on Mastodon's Leviathan album. Moby Dick themed!

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Nether
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 6:31 am
I love that album!

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 7th, 2013 at 3:26 pm
Split your lungs with Blood and Thunder!
When you see the White Whale!
Break your backs and crack your oars, men!
If you wish to prevail!
This ivory leg is what propels me!
Harpoons thrust in the sky!
Aim directly for his crooked brow!
And look him straight in the eyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyye!

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Nether
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Mar 8th, 2013 at 9:03 pm
good ole' Ahab

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213EDD
Joined: Sep 2007

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 12:33 pm
The fact that these are the posts that get GR users attention pisses me off.

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Italion193
Joined: Jun 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 12:53 pm
America is imploding.

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WILLS_COOL_MODE
Joined: Oct 2010

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:15 pm
dat revisionist history. Do PETArds realize that THIS WAS ACTUALLY A THING THAT HAPPENED?

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R0ADK1LL
Joined: Jul 2009

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:21 pm
First up: why do they have a problem with killing whales & no problem with killing people?
Second: they haven't seen the game yet, how can they condemn it? How do they know that you don't go around assassinating whalers?
Third: why didn't they get upset over Dishonored? Whale oil was everywhere!

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Chunibrow
Joined: Mar 2010

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:24 pm
PETA are the Jack Thompson of companies, we shouldn't even be giving their white noise half a second of consideration.

And besides, don't they know that whales and dolphins dropped the bombs on Nagasaki and Hiroshima? If anything these successive generations of water-dwelling mammals have it coming for their ancestors crimes.

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Nether
Joined: Jul 2007

Posted: Mar 8th, 2013 at 9:05 pm
So sneaky these whales and dolphins are!

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OdiousLupous
Joined: Jul 2011

Posted: Mar 5th, 2013 at 1:29 pm
I heard that pubic lice are on the endangered species list due to our hygiene habits and the large percentage of people shaving their nether regions, I dont hear PETAs rallying call for those animals. Fuck digital whales and **** digital dolphins... Im looking at you Ecco.

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DrToasty
Joined: Dec 2005

Posted: Mar 6th, 2013 at 12:17 am
Near the GR headquarters is a town called "Rodeo", us locals pronounce it Ro-day-oh, and guess what? PETA has an issue with the name, as it conjures images of animals being interacted with by humans.

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