When's Hillary Clinton going to ban this video game?
I remember a time when Rock Star Video games was in Senator Clinton's crosshairs for promoting violent video games like the infamous Grand Theft Auto. You'll still see reports of Clinton and Lieberman's crusade against video games trickling into the news to this very day.
I'm just curious when they are going to get on their soap box about the controversial Left Behind series – a video game where believers are taught to slay non-believers in the form of fictional rock stars and Muslims.
Even Wal-Mart is catching a little heat for peddling this exercise in discrimation:
But it's okay, the game doesn't teach try to teach the practice of killing non-believers. You lose a few "spirit points" if you decide to take down non-believers instead of putting them on to the Bible:
Whatever happened to the days of indiscriminately killing people for their car, recklessly driving it around town, and then using it to bang prositutes in the back seat?
Those extreme Christians had to go and make deranged video games personal and divisive. Let's see if Ms. Clinton will risk some Christian votes and call foul on the apocalypse training game.
I'm just curious when they are going to get on their soap box about the controversial Left Behind series – a video game where believers are taught to slay non-believers in the form of fictional rock stars and Muslims.
Even Wal-Mart is catching a little heat for peddling this exercise in discrimation:
Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give this holiday season and that Wal-Mart, a major video game retailer, should yank it off its shelves.
But it's okay, the game doesn't teach try to teach the practice of killing non-believers. You lose a few "spirit points" if you decide to take down non-believers instead of putting them on to the Bible:
Left Behind Games' president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is pacifist because players lose "spirit points" every time they gun down nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by having their character pray.
"You are fighting a defensive battle in the game," Frichner, whose previous company produced Bible software, said of combatting the Antichrist. "You are a sort of a freedom fighter."
Whatever happened to the days of indiscriminately killing people for their car, recklessly driving it around town, and then using it to bang prositutes in the back seat?
Those extreme Christians had to go and make deranged video games personal and divisive. Let's see if Ms. Clinton will risk some Christian votes and call foul on the apocalypse training game.
Labels: Democrats, National Politics, religion
So how does it work? Do you get "Saved" points, and when you kill Muhammed do you get a halo? Seriously, this has to be the worst game ever.
Posted by Anonymous | 10:43 AM
Characters lose "spirit points" when they kill in the game. Those spirit points can be rebuilt by pressing a "prayer button".
The heavy violence happens in the later stage of the game. There are about 40 levels, and I talked to someone who had played the game who told me that at the mid 30s levels killing civilians seemed easier than in the early stage levels and that it took only one press of the "prayer button" to rebuild the points lost for killing one civilian.
Kill, press button, kill, press button.....
Also, at those high levels cars driving down the street could be blown up with impunity.
Neat, huh ?
Posted by Anonymous | 10:54 AM
Hilarious.
Horridly frightening, but hilarious.
Well written.
Posted by Anonymous | 4:59 AM
Hilarious.
Horridly frightening, but hilarious.
Well written.
Posted by Anonymous | 4:59 AM