Racists launch PC game

[merwin]

http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=60093

While anti-gaming critics are busy worrying about a mod that sees two fictional characters engaging in consensual sex, a neo-Nazi organisation has released a game designed to promote racial divisions and encourage violent acts against members of ethnic minorities.

The PC first-person shooter is titled Ethnic Cleansing and is published by Resistance Records, which also distributes racist 'White Power' music. Resistance Records is owned by the National Alliance, the biggest and most active neo-Nazi group in the US.

Players take on the role of either a skinhead or a Ku Klux Klan member - dressed in full KKK robes and carrying a noose - and explore a city that's clearly based on New York. The object of the game is to kill black and Latino people, described as "predatory sub-humans", and their "Jewish masters".
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Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon appears in the game as the final boss, armed with a rocket launcher. His character makes comments along the lines of "We have destroyed your culture!" and "We silenced Henry Ford," before dying with the line: "Filthy white dog, you have destroyed thousands of years of planning."

Resistance Records began advertising the game on Martin Luther King day, using the slogan: "Celebrate Martin Luther King Day with a virtual Race War!"
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Wow...

[w13rd0]

1. That "game" has been out for a while...

...it's a really bad mod of, I want to say Half-Life, but I could be wrong. And who is running Resistance Records now, seeing as how the prior "owner" of that tripe is now in jail?

[seriousstan]

2. The game was developed using Genesis3D, an open source game engine.

http://www.genesis3d.com/

[DS1]

3. All that talent going waste on shit like that

Sad.

[Hobarticus]

4. "We silenced Henry Ford..."

Any clue what that means? I though Henry was a Nazi sympathizer.

[KamaAina]

5. It's the Ariel Sharon character who says that

How crude. Any chance Hillary's gonna glom on to this one?

edit: I actually wouldn't mind playing the game -- if I could play as one of "those people" and waste all the skinheads, Klansmen and Nazis! :nuke:

[anarch]

6. geez...that doesn't sound very "PC" to me....

[Lone_Star_Dem]

7. Is this re-release supposed to mean something?

Whatever. :eyes:

If you're a person who's into hate and racism I guess you'd spend money on a poorly done game. Not me, I save my bucks for ones with sex and nudity mods! :D

[Karla Marx]

8. What disgusting crap.

[steve2470]

9. game url fyi

http://www.resistance.com/ethniccleansing/catalog.htm

[youspeakmylanguage]

11. Why would you even want to lurk there?

I wouldn't touch a skinhead website with a Kinko's computer and a ten foot pole.

[steve2470]

12. fyi = for your information, I don't lurk there ! Please don't assume nt

[youspeakmylanguage]

14. Hey, I wasn't accussing you of anything...

...but why provide a link to a site that is the political equivalent of nuclear waste?

[youspeakmylanguage]

10. Too funny...

Apparently they now have another game to play in the heartland once "Cabela's Big Game Hunter" gets old.

[MadHound]

13. 'Scuse me!

I happen to live in that "heartland" and know of literally thousands and thousands of people who don't and won't play "Big Game Hunter" or this racist POS.

Stop dealing in the broad brush, and generalizations. It is attitudes like yours that drive people away from the party in droves. Good show!:eyes:

[youspeakmylanguage]

15. You literally know the video game habits of thousands and thousands...

...of people? Are you Mario? Or Luigi?

Seriously, I thought "the heartland" would be generic enough not to step on anyone's toes, but I guess I was wrong. My apologies to fly over country.

[NNguyenMD]

16. provoking us into making an angry response is what they're hoping for

gets them free media attention, they are currently, and will be ignored if we just let them act like the raving idiots they are without our help.

After reading the "insider expo" of the College Republican convention by Operation Yellow Elephant, provoking an angry response is precisely what these guys want us to do. We'll be playing into their hands like puppets.

I think as liberals we should be able to trust most people on an individual basis to condemn this game and stop shopping at the stores that sell them on their own free will should they happen to run across it in the stores or whatnot. Otherwise you're just feeding into the "forbidden" apple mentality when you let the mainstream turn it into a controversy that gets far more attention than its worth.