Social Video Game About Jesus: Awesome or Awful?
SodaHead Gaming
2012/05/16 13:00:00
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Ever wonder what it would be like to watch Jesus duke it out with the Devil? Well, presumably, that's what you get to do in "Journey of Jesus," a point-and-click Facebook game by Lightside Games that's being promoted as "the first-ever Messiah-based video game." We couldn't vouch for the validity of that claim, but it's probably the first social game about Jesus. The strange game is picking up enough press to get a mention in Time magazine. So far, it's got upwards of 2 million users.
The gameplay is pretty straight-forward -- players controls a cartoony biblical version of themselves as they help Jesus and the disciples out by performing point-and-click tasks, like gathering wood to fix a cart or clearing a thorn bush to get to the baptism. The social part comes in the form of sharing -- users also get to share their progress with their Facebook friends and receive perks for doing so, kind of like "Farmville." Now, we're not sure if that fight with he devil is literal or figurative. Many of the ads show the Lord in a boxing ring with his sandal perched on Satan's chest, but that could just be because it was released on the same day as "Diablo III." Visit the game's Facebook page, click "Play Game" to give it a shot -- and let us know how you feel about the video game about Jesus.
The gameplay is pretty straight-forward -- players controls a cartoony biblical version of themselves as they help Jesus and the disciples out by performing point-and-click tasks, like gathering wood to fix a cart or clearing a thorn bush to get to the baptism. The social part comes in the form of sharing -- users also get to share their progress with their Facebook friends and receive perks for doing so, kind of like "Farmville." Now, we're not sure if that fight with he devil is literal or figurative. Many of the ads show the Lord in a boxing ring with his sandal perched on Satan's chest, but that could just be because it was released on the same day as "Diablo III." Visit the game's Facebook page, click "Play Game" to give it a shot -- and let us know how you feel about the video game about Jesus.
Top Opinion
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The Libertarian 2012/05/16 15:42:18Awesome
+9I see nothing wrong with it, for those of you of seem to have a problem with this, go make your own app and put it on facebook.
Step off with your 'morals'.
- Do youngsters get to point-and-click to erase women's reproductive rights?
- How about activities to sacrifice themselves to show their love to their one true patriarch?
- How about activities where they stone their neighbors for working on the sabbath?
- How about a point-and-click interface where they get to counsel children in war torn countries that have lost their parents to tell them "don't worry, it's god's plan".
- I could go on, but you get the point...
-Jesus is still white, despite that being false (if he existed, anyway)
-It's a total marketing ploy
-Christians will just play it because it's Jesus
-The game sounds stupidly simple
-They purposely released it the day of Diablo III, which is the most annoying thing they could've done. Out of all the days they could release it, they did it on the same day as a game called "Diablo", like they're trying to seem superior or something.
-I would assume this is sacrilegious; creating a game where you get to play with a cutesy Jesus. He's supposed to be your God, is he not? It's disrespectful.
All good reasons to see that this is anything but awful.