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[Jc84144]

Let me start by saying that for the past couple of years I've been working on a project for the 'World Trade Center tribute center' in New York City, which has brought me into contact with a lot of photographs.

I was browsing EA's Origin website the other day when I came across a promotional banner for the 'Mass Effect 3' demo, and I was struck by how the art in the banner seemed to include part of the collapsed World Trade Center. I realise to most people a collapsed building is a collapsed building, but I can assure you the WTC was rather unique in it's structure and construction, and so what was left afterwards was very specific to this building, that no other building around would look like. Nonetheless, it still appears to have been used.

I am in no way suggesting this was intentional, the most likely explanation that comes to mind is perhaps an artist was researching photographs of collapsed buildings as a reference point, came across a photo taken from ground zero and either did not fully realise what the photograph was of, or wrongly assumed it was rather generic and could be applied to other collapsed structures.

The banner art in question along with the specific area I believe to have used are shown in the following image: http://i.imgur.com/H8i8I.jpg 


Some basic material to show how such a structure was unique to this building: 
http://science.howst...ion-unique2.htm 
http://www.greatbuil...WTC_const.2.jpg 
http://www.fema.gov/...fema403_ch2.pdf  (page 6 mainly) 

Banner currently being used here: http://store.origin....ree-games-en_GB 

Anyway, I thought I should post this partly to get peoples views, and partly to bring it to the attention of the developers in case this wasn't intentional, as I'm sure they wouldn't wish to be unintentionally depicting this. 

Thanks!

[EDIT: As many of you seem to think it is photoshopped, here is the source image hosted on EA's domain: vassets.ea.com/Assets/Richmedia/Image/MassEffect3_demo_en_US_963x315_2.jpg ] 

Tl;dr: 9/11 imagery used in promotional art for Mass Effect 3 (http://i.imgur.com/H8i8I.jpg), intentional or not? 

Modifié par Jc84144, 07 avril 2012 - 12:07 .

[John Epler]

I've spent some time looking for this image online, and haven't been able to find it.

I'm not saying you're lying, but if it's already been taken down (and to be clear, I have no idea as to the validity of the claims), then I don't think this thread serves much purpose.

Locking.