Here's the company site for the game, LEFT BEHIND: Eternal Forces. Here's the trailer in .wmv format, a trailer page or two, and a preview with screen shots.
As described on Talk To Action in two parts:
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a Christian theocracy, and establish its worldly vision of the dominion of Christ over all aspects of life. You are issued high-tech military weaponry, and instructed to engage the infidel on the streets of New York City. You are on a mission - both a religious mission and a military mission -- to convert or kill Catholics, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, gays, and anyone who advocates the separation of church and state - especially moderate, mainstream Christians. Your mission is "to conduct physical and spiritual warfare"; all who resist must be taken out with extreme prejudice.Wait, let's be fair and let the game's creators tell us about it:
Wage a war of apocalyptic proportions in LEFT BEHIND: Eternal Forces - a real-time strategy game based upon the best-selling LEFT BEHIND book series created by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins. Join the ultimate fight of Good against Evil, commanding Tribulation Forces or the Global Community Peacekeepers, and uncover the truth about the worldwide disappearances!
· Lead the Tribulation Force from the book series , including Rayford, Chloe, Buck and Bruce against Nicolae Carpathia – the AntiChrist.
· Conduct physical & spiritual warfare : using the power of prayer to strengthen your troops in combat and wield modern military weaponry throughout the game world.
· Recover ancient scriptures and witness spectacular Angelic and Demonic activity as a direct consequence of your choices.
· Command your forces through intense battles across a breathtaking, authentic depiction of New York City.
· Control more than 30 units types - from Prayer Warrior and Hellraiser to Spies, Special Forces and Battle Tanks!
· Enjoy a robust single player experience across dozens of New York City maps in Story Mode – fighting in China Town , SoHo , Uptown and more!
· Play multiplayer games as Tribulation Force or the AntiChrist's Global Community Peacekeepers with up to eight players via LAN or over the internet!
As a former associate of the company told the Los Angeles Times, "It's absurd. You can be the Christians blowing away the infidels, and if that doesn't hit your hot button, you can be the Antichrist blowing away all the Christians." Hmmm....
My inaugural address at the Great White Throne Judgment of the Dead, after I have raptured out billions!
ReplyDeleteRead My Inaugural Address Online
My Site = http://www.angelfire.com/crazy/spaceman
Your jaw will drop!
Sounds more like an Al Queda game than a "Christian" game. I don't think Jesus taught "follow me and kill the infidels". I think he taught rather "follow me and take up your cross".
ReplyDeleteBy the way dude, your blog is no longer updating on My Yahoo (xml). What is up with that?
ReplyDeleteI noticed the same thing a while ago, but you caused me to track it down. I think it is because I have my template tricked up to display all existing posts on the front page, which makes it too big for Yahoo's feed validator, which says:
ReplyDeleteUnable to validate, due to hardcoded resource limits (feed length > 200000 bytes)
They say this is to prevent denial-of-service attacks.
I've pared a few posts recently, but I still get quite a few hits on the oldies but goodies through search engines and my occasional links when they get relevant to a new discussion.
Guess I may as well kill the My Yahoo button.
It's too bad that Sam Peckinpah isn't alive (or, um Christian) 'cause he would have made a kickin' video game of the Apocalypse.
ReplyDeleteThen again, John Milius is making video games, but he's been focusing his efforts on WW2 action shoot-em-ups.
I wonder if this new game includes the optional line of "Mr. Kurtz, he converted!"
I really wouldn't sweat this one too much. It will never sell.
ReplyDeletePeople who market Christianity tend to be radically out of touch with what people actually want. Ask any bookseller--- "Left Behind" books are not bought by kids--- They're bought by parents that are hoping that the kids will think something besides Stephen King is actually cool. Kids aren't actually reading them.
But now we come to the more static media... Music, video games, etc.
Anyone who has stayed up too late watching TV and has caught the commercial for the "Jesus Rocks!" CD can tell you... Christian mainstream marketing tends to consist of pushing whatever was cool 20 years ago. The songs on the CD sound like failed demos from a guy with a mullet and parachute pants.
The game will be no different. By the time this game actually ships, the video game market will have moved leaps and bounds beyond the game's meager capabilities. Even assuming that parents will overlook the violence in it (Not a safe assumption--- Repackage "Grand Theft Auto" as "Grand Theft Jesus", and parents still won't buy it), the kids simply won't want it. They quite rightly see the Christian marketing as hokey. To them, it's like comparing Vegas to Branson. I'm thinking of the Simpsons episode where they went to Branson... Bart said "Wow! It's like what Vegas would be if Flanders was in charge."
This game will fail spectacularly. Within a month of its release, it will find its home in the $20 pile, where it still won't sell.
Now, everyone join me for a rousing chorus of "My God Is an Awesome God". 2, 3, 1... ;)
They featured this game on X-Play, and hilarity ensued.
ReplyDelete