Moskitto
9th April 2003, 22:58
while exploring shops with my girlfriend I stumbled upon a game which caught my eye called World War III.
Then picking up this game and reading the blurb I was horrified by what I saw.
This was not a game about a titanic battle with the soviet union, or china, or 2 new super powers. This was a game where you are a special forces officer in Afghanistan, your mission: seek out Al-Quida operatives. This game makes the whole process of counter terrorism look so easy, it gives no indication that those soldiers may just make mistakes. It makes no allowance to show what the terrorist grievances might actually be. No, instead it turns the Arabs into the bad guys who you gotta shoot, like everyone knows those evil mushrooms are evil, cos they're in a game, now everyone will no that the Arabs are evil, they are in a game.
In the end, I bought a plasma ball and a rather excelant book about the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria and decided to stop wasting my time looking at such games.
Then picking up this game and reading the blurb I was horrified by what I saw.
This was not a game about a titanic battle with the soviet union, or china, or 2 new super powers. This was a game where you are a special forces officer in Afghanistan, your mission: seek out Al-Quida operatives. This game makes the whole process of counter terrorism look so easy, it gives no indication that those soldiers may just make mistakes. It makes no allowance to show what the terrorist grievances might actually be. No, instead it turns the Arabs into the bad guys who you gotta shoot, like everyone knows those evil mushrooms are evil, cos they're in a game, now everyone will no that the Arabs are evil, they are in a game.
In the end, I bought a plasma ball and a rather excelant book about the rise of antibiotic resistant bacteria and decided to stop wasting my time looking at such games.