Jaffe's Canned PSP Game a "Liberal Response to Bush"

God of War creator David Jaffe's long-rumored, now-cancelled PSP game Heartland would have been a political statement, he told N'Gai Croal in an interview published today:

The game was very much a liberal person's response to the Bush administration and the war in Iraq. When I was entertaining lofty thoughts, the idea was to create an experience that would try to make the players--whom I mostly assumed would be of the Western world--feel what it must be like to have their own homeland occupied by another country. SCEA and I went back and forth over if we would ever say it was CHINA vs. AMERICA as they were a bit worried about being so literal, but that fight had not yet occurred when we pulled the plug.

Another contentious point of the project, says Jaffe, is that Sony studios head Phil Harrison thought that such an ambitious game would fit best on PlayStation 3, while Jaffe kept pushing to keep it as a potentially explosive killer app for the flagging portable: "Heartland should do for the PSP what Halo did for the Xbox."

Hey, PS3 could use a Halo, too.
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