"It is a matter of life and death, a road to game over or to win!"
Ahead of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games, which kicks off tomorrow in Beijing, homebrew developer Anti-Social Gaming has put out a polemic game titled Olympic Battlefields.
Unlike Mario and Sonic's Olympic outing, however, you won't jump into any traditional events to win the gold for their respective franchises. Rather, you'll pick from one of four countries to represent their tacit agendas and "fight terrorism."
For instance, if you choose the Tibetans, you'll be tasked with dragging Chinese people out of your country before they "turn militant." If you decide to side with China, you'll need to tap the "revolting Tibetans" and turn them into farmers, otherwise "they'll suicide bomb." Also, for some reason, the Chinese farmers and terrorist Tibetans look like Raiden and Scorpion from Mortal Kombat.
If that isn't controversial enough, you have the option of playing as Israelis or Palestinians, too. On the Palestinian side, you'll be charged with converting Jews to Islam by dragging them off the map. If you play as the Israelis, you will have to tap and convert Hamas terrorists into Jews. Again, if you don't neutralize them in time, they blow up!
Looks like RanAway and In the Afternoon Sunshine have some serious competition now when it comes to the most offensive homebrew DS game.
[Via DCEmu]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
8-07-2008 @ 10:19PM
chibi_wings said...
I don't know if I should be laughing or crying. It seems like a really bad attempt at poking fun of policies in these countries. If you don't convert them they will suicide bomb you >___>
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8-08-2008 @ 4:15AM
Chrono said...
Is it wrong that I find politically-incorrect games so darn funny?
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8-08-2008 @ 9:22AM
rikki said...
This is terribly funny to me, as all sides of the conflict are represented. No country is "right" or "wrong".
Now all the developer needs to do is add Iraq and the USA; in the former, you have to drag out soldiers, and in the latter you've got to tap the brown people and foreigners.
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...What? :>
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8-08-2008 @ 5:59PM
Ethan said...
I think this is awesome.
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