Would You Play a Video Game Where U.S. Troops Are the Enemy?
Christine Lusey
2011/05/19 19:00:00
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As far as first-person-shooters go, it's pretty standard. Battlefield theme? Check. Intense graphics? Check. Soaring music? Check. Shooting at Americans? Che - hang on, what?
Guess who's entering the war game scene! The People's Liberation Army of China, with a new release called "Glorious Mission," in which players must defeat U.S. forces.
Its game play, which includes a basic training portion as well as battleground shootouts, lead many to believe it's based on the U.S. Army's own game, "America's Army."
Though in that game, players take on terrorists or, as Wired magazine puts it, "generic Middle Eastern or Central Asian insurgents." And not, you know, people with whom we're supposed to be at least marginally friendly.
Guess who's entering the war game scene! The People's Liberation Army of China, with a new release called "Glorious Mission," in which players must defeat U.S. forces.
Its game play, which includes a basic training portion as well as battleground shootouts, lead many to believe it's based on the U.S. Army's own game, "America's Army."
Though in that game, players take on terrorists or, as Wired magazine puts it, "generic Middle Eastern or Central Asian insurgents." And not, you know, people with whom we're supposed to be at least marginally friendly.
Read More: http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/05/gamers-tar...
Top Opinion
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Feria~THEZombieSlayingB!tch... 2011/05/20 18:09:47Yes+12We make games where it's us against them, and we have the audacity for calling them out for doing the same?






















Give me a game with a twist like this and I'll gladly fork over my cash.
NOT using those freedoms would be an insult to them.
As an American, I feel it’s disrespectful & dishonorable to partake in a game where killing American solider’s is a choice.
You want to brainwash kids all over the world into wanting to be americans and killing anyone who isn't? If you allow kids to kill in a game, they should be able to choose who to kill.
Have you ever heard of Pearl Harbor, or the way Hitler killed so many in London? Tell it to the son or daughter whose parents were killed in London. Is that the kind of new perspective you want, for a change.
If people don't like to play the game, you can choose not to play it, but don't force everyone else not to play it just because you find it distasteful. The first amendment protects free speech regardless if a certain group of people like it or not.
As to your idea that America was always on the good side, the thousands of Native Americans massacred, killed and displaced in the hands of the United States would beg to differ.
I faught for America in a war & almost died doing it & cant imagine
even playing a game were i was against America.
i dont care if that sounds silly.