Muslim Massacre Game
Guys, FYI
I Hope Q-Tel block this game ISP.
http://www.muslimmassacre.com
Here are some reviews/stories.
The top-down shooter Muslim Massacre instructs players to "Take control of the American hero and wipe out the Muslim race with an arsenal of the world's most destructive weapons!" And that's pretty much it.
Kicking off with a George W. Bush voice sample ("Let's roll!"), the player lays waste to scores of Muslims in a bloody 2D landscape, on city streets and soccer fields, with Robotron (or, if you prefer, Smash TV) inspired gameplay.
You kill hundreds of faceless men and women, some with suicide bomb vests, some unarmed, as you work your way up to "bosses" like Osama bin Laden and, ultimately, Allah. It's packed with tasteless stereotypes and unapologetic detached violence.
It's unwaveringly offensive by design — it's given the tagline "the game of modern religious genocide" — so it should come as no surprise that people are voicing their displeasure with the game. According to UK publication Telegraph, British Muslim organizations are up in arms over the shooter.
“Encouraging children and young people in a game to kill Muslims is unacceptable, tasteless and deeply offensive,” said Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of The Ramadhan Foundation, a Muslim youth organization.
Muslim Massacre, created by Something Awful forum goon Eric "Sigvatr" Vaughn, has been publicly available for a while now, but people are now starting to give it some attention.
We've played the game and found it to be a rather straightforward shooter, with a surprisingly well crafted visual style and retro 8-bit musical nods. It has allusions to 80s shooters like Contra and Ikari Warriors and is stupidly "patriotic" in its execution. It doesn't play particularly well, nor is it a bad game.
Muslim Massacre is, according to its creator "fun to play" but "The Muslims represented in the game aren't meant to be based on actual Muslims."
As for an after-the-fact artist's statement, Vaughn is quoted as posting on the SA forums that “If I was to try and come up with a meaning for the game at this moment, it would probably be something along the lines of metaphorically destroying the stereotypical depiction of a Muslim.”
But I have seen a game that you can practice your target shooting with that uses "Telletubbies", now that's fun.....
"Your born, You Live, You Die, given this premise, one can conclude since we have no control over when we are born and when we die, the only thing that matters to us should be how we live, simple really?" Mis-Cat to her philosophy Lecturer.
I wonder if killing women and children is also part of the game ( -metaphorically destroying the stereotypical Muslims) as in real life these are only collateral damage.
why bother with a "game", when there is real life action happening in Iraq, Palestine, Afghanistan, etc.
As I remember, it was either a group of Hamas or Hezballah followers who marketed the game. It was reviewed in the Arab News in KSA about a year ago. Don't shoot the messenger - just reporting what I see.
Take a look at:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9904E6D7153EF93BA25756C0A9659C8B63
http://eye-on-the-world.blogspot.com/2007/08/hezbollah-video-game-war-with-israel.html
and
http://www.mafhoum.com/press5/148T47.htm
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"Deaths in the Bible. God - 2,270,365
not including the victims of Noah's flood, Sodom and Gomorrah, or the
many plagues, famines, fiery serpents, etc because no specific numbers
were given. Satan - 10."
...But there are games out there coded by good Muslims that have you killing "infidels" in much the same manner.
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Yet there would still be some who will justify this in the name of that great democratic value - freedom of speech! :(
---Life is Fragile, Handle with Prayer---
this is ridiculous!! How in the world can something that promotes such hatred be "fun"??? The gaming industry has always been on the wrong side of moral issues with the killing games because it desensitizes children to death and gun usage but this is WAY out of the ballpark! I hope someone sues the pants off of the maker and distributor of this horrific "game". The proceeds should go to the orphans from the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.