It's time to slay teh Antichrist!

[OcellotJenkins]

Kids Kill In Violent Christian Videogame

To top it off, each time a soldier slays one of the Antichrist's soldiers (who are UN Peacekeepers, remember), he triumphantly cries, "Praise the Lord!"

[WindiaN]

that was amazing, thank you.

[bhodi]

WOW. my favorite:

Jonathan Hutson says he wasn't opposed to videogame violence per se. "The level of violence in this videogame is not at issue," he said. "Rather, it's the indoctrination in Christian supremacy because the game rehearses and instructs children in the mass killing of New Yorkers for the sake of Christ and that is an abomination." He also said he was appalled that in Eternal Forces, corpses are left on the streets. "It's outrageous that this game has a feature to allow cold corpses of New Yorkers to pile up on the streets. No one gives them a decent burial."

How cool is that? I want to play!

Come on, how much of a pain in the ass would it be to dig graves and say last rites for everyone you killed? That kind of game would get boring, FAST.

[Sky]

I've always wanted more persistant corpses. Wasn't there a game that changed them from dynamic mobs to static solid objects when they died?

Piles of bodies rock. It would certainly put a hurt on campers.

[Stormwaltz]

Am I nuts, or was Jack Thompson invoked as a counter to other extremist crazies like himself?

We should sic these two on each other. No matter who loses, we win.

[HaemishM]

I am continually amazed by the persecution complex the religious right is trying to use these days.

Like Schumsky, most Christian game developers covet the mainstream audience and feel the reason they haven't broken through is because videogame critics compare their games to more successful market standards like Grand Theft Auto. Christian game developers say the comparison is unfair because they believe their games are morally superior.

Ok, so it's unfair to judge a Christian game on the merits of its GAMEPLAY because it's a "moral" game. Fuck it, then. If the game is so goddamn morally superior, it should be ok that your game is Pong with one paddle labeled "The Devil" and the other labeled "Jesus," and the Devil paddle can never hit the ball. Don't be a fucking tool.

And really, if the Left Behind shitkickers really wanted to teach about the lessons of Christ, they should just have all the Christian soldiers sacrifice themselves to the violence of the Devil's forces, since their Jesus-like sacrifice should get them into heaven. Turn the other cheek and all that.

[Sky]

Thou shalt not kill graven images?

I wonder if there's any hot neighbor's wife covetous going on, too.

[Righ]

Are you calling your neighbour's wife an ass?

[raydeen]

Jesus say: WTF?

[Mesozoic]

"'Revelations' is pretty darn violent to begin with," Schumsky said, "so how do you candycoat that?"

Well he got the name of the book wrong, so he must be an expert.

[Sky]

Are you calling your neighbour's wife an ass?

Nope. She'd call the cops on me.

[geldonyetich]

I'll buy the game when the community releases a mod where you play Jesus in a scenario where you kick the bible thumpers out of heaven and watch from above as both the U.N. forces and the "left behind" civies engage the thumpers in meaningful intelligent discussion until, finding their usual methods of coping (loud demands that God's favor is on their side) denied by their eviction from heaven, they commit mass suicide.  Then, at the end of the scenario, God comes down and apologizes profusely for making the use of their brains optional and promises to do better next content patch. He raises his arms, majestic fade to white, followed by an artist's conception of the big bang.  That's art.

ETA, less than a week after the game's release.

It's not that I don't respect Christianity.  I like the original moral messages it attempted to convey.  It's just a travesty how terribly it's been corrupted by certain sects in order to make games like this possible.  The plot behind this game isn't even about mortal conduct anymore, it's about revenge.  It's a toybox where faux-Christians with a superiority complex can pretend to play with the tormented souls of those they deem unsavable.  Cute, real cute.  I take some satisfaction in knowing the game will not possibly sell enough copies to cover its development costs thanks to the stupid premise alone.

[Sky]

I want a christian game where Jesus shambles from the grave and has an insatiable hunger for brains.