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A UK documentary, Exposure - Gaddafi and the IRA, that looks in to claims that the autocratic ruler of Libya, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, supporting the IRA, said it was showing secret IRA film from 1988. But the clip turned out to be footage from the video game ARMA 2.
What?! In the footage below, you'll see the shaky footage of men (i.e. pixels) on camouflage pick-up shooting down helicopters. This definitely isn't secret IRA film, but rather a tactical shooter released in 2009.
According to ITV, the studio behind the documentary, "The events featured in Exposure: Gaddafi and the IRA were genuine but it would appear that during the editing process the correct clip of the 1988 incident was not selected and other footage was mistakenly included in the film by producers. This was an unfortunate case of human error for which we apologise." The studio does have the real IRA film which they plan on replacing the video game footage with.
Kotaku was able to get a hold on Marek Spanel, the CEO of Bohemia Interactive who developed ARMA 2, and he said the company wasn't even aware of the incident at all. "It is very weird to see our game used this way especially considering the journalists were simply unable to tell difference between reality and game footage and described a short film clearly made using our game Arma II with what they call real IRA footage from 1988," he said. "Our games offer a great level of freedom to our users to create all kind of things but in this particular case, it is very misleading. Plus it is surprising ITV did not seek for permission to use our game in this way."
What's strikes me as the most humorous part of this whole situation is that it was, of course, gamers who instantly knew that the footage was fake. Isn't it usually the media spouting that gamers can't tell the difference between virtual reality and reality? Give me a break.
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Gaughranorama
Here's the footage they aired along with the original. If you know ITV then you know their audience wouldn't have the cop on to tell this is a game.
http://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=r4fhzDyrtXY
Draconiangem
This isn't even computer graphics... it's more like choppy motionless clip art slapped together is cropped frames. They would have to be drunk or on drugs to think it was real. Gamer or no. I agree they arn't giving the full truth.
g4fan247
The video is back up for me. That footage was not human error, I don't see how anybody thinks this footage of a video game is real.
2ply
Not sure what video G4 replaced it with, but it was nothing like what was shown earilier.. The one before was part of the actual documentary.
The one up there now isn't even the same clip they used in the film, doesn't even look like the same game lol.
g4fan247
This video was removed.
Lacking_Fractal
Video removed -_-
2ply
Haha, yeah I guess they did remove the vid. I watched it earilier and you could tell it was altered CG.
Basically what they did was take a game scene, added heavy blur effects to look more like a crappy cam corder, and tried passing it off as actual footage of the IRA shooting down a helicopter, complete with a full back story and step by step commentary to what was happening in the clip.
It's total BS they are trying to pass it off as an honest mistake lol.
FFGHachi46
Lol Human error my @$$.
Interesting how they just happened to have that particular game footage laying around..
Vancoor
Video removed =/
2ply
Hah that's good stuff, so much for any credibility that "documentary" might have had lol.
I don't see how they could just pass that off as human error and expect everything to be fine though, why would they have that footage qued up and only a button press away to begin with if they had no intention of using it..
Diremike
Lol stupid brits
yazman666
This is just hilarious .....!!!
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