Clerics object to use of cathedral for gunbattle in PS3 game
Church of England clerics are angry over the use of Manchester Cathedral as the setting for a violent gun battle by Sony in one of it's top selling computer games. Manchester clergy preach regularly against the city's gun culture and promote the cathedral as a place of peace and reconciliation. They say that Sony failed to ask permission before using the nave of the cathedral the PS3 game Resistance: Fall of Man.
The game, written by Insomniac has so far sold over 1 million copies and features a battle between humans and the Chimera, a horrific species of unknown origin.
Right Rev Nigel McCulloch, Bishop of Manchester has called on Sony to withdraw the game.
