[Republican Radio™]

If "bungiefella" truly is Joe Staten, this is an incredible turn of events and a testament to the power of FreeRepublic to generate discourse.

Bungiefella/Staten is saying that:

• Geoff Keighley, interviewer for the article in Entertainment Weekly, tried to shape the story to fit his own political agenda
• The editors at Entertainment Weekly, ignorant of the storyline of the original game, painted a contradictory picture of the floating ring-like planet Halos as "utopias, safe havens in a universe filled with terror" and helped create the impression of Halo 2 as digital agitprop by saying "Clearly, there are political and religious dimensions to Halo 2 that were absent from the first game"

Conspiratorial types will view the pronouncements of "bungiefella" at the 11th hour as an attempt to keep controversy from hurting a nascent product's bottom line. Anti-Microsoft types (of which there are many on FreeRepublic) will claim that Micro$oft is trying to force yet another failed ideology upon consumers.

I'd like find out what Mr. Keighley's side of the story is and if both men would be willing to talk about this subject and take calls from FReepers on an upcoming episode of Republican Radio.

Messrs. Staten and Keighley can in touch with our producers by clicking on the "Contact Us" in the upper-left hand corner of the Republican Radio website. The show broadcasts every Saturday from Seattle, WA and we'd like to have Mr. Staten in-studio if possible.

[BoBToMatoE]

excellent post RP.

[Simmy2.5]

Even if there was some anti-Bushism in Halo 2 (that has yet to be seen), I'd still play the game. I mean, many games or movies could be interperted in many ways. If, like most games, the story takes a back seat, or is simply to be reason to blow stuff up, that's fine by me.

[Tempest]

I've been telling you fromt he very begining that you had it wrong geeshhh!