What's the worst you've ever read or seen the contents of a game being minsunderstood, incorrectly interpreted, plot butchered, et cetera? I'll start with something local.
In their review of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, the Boston Globe reported that the player is forced to kill a police officer on the first level... "an act as ugly as the scars that mar Max Payne's face". That one left me baffled for weeks. I was going to write a letter, but never did get around to it.
An Australian newspaper once stated that the object of Half-Life: Blue Shift was to kill security guards and steal their guns.
