Iranian game promotes ‘martyrdom’
p2pnet news | games:- Here’s a cool new video war game. It’s called Rescue the Nuke Scientist and it comes from an Iranian student group, says Associated Press.
Designed by the Union of Students Islamic Association, it was created, “as a response to a U.S.-based company’s ‘Assault on Iran’ game” (right) centering on, “an American attack on an Iranian nuclear facility,” says the story.
What’s it all about? Says the description on KumaWar:
As a Special Forces soldier in this playable mission, you will infiltrate Iran’s nuclear facility at Natanz, located 150 miles south of Iran’s capital of Teheran. But breaching the security cordon around the hardened target won?t be easy. Your team?s mission: Infiltrate the base, secure evidence of illegal uranium enrichment, rescue your man on the inside, and destroy the centrifuges that promise to take Iran into the nuclear age.
Never before has so much hung in the balance… millions of lives, and the very future of democracy could be at stake.
Rescue the Nuke Scientist is, “our defense against the enemy’s cultural onslaught,” AP has Mohammad Taqi Fakhrian, a leader of the hard-line student group declaring, going on:
In “Rescue the Nuke Scientist,” U.S. troops capture a husband-and-wife team of nuclear engineers during a pilgrimage to Karbala, a holy site for Shiite Muslims, in central Iraq. Game players take on the role of Iranian security forces carrying out a mission code-named “The Special Operation,” which involves penetrating fortified locations to free the nuclear scientists, who are moved from Iraq to Israel.
To complete the game successfully, players have to enter Israel to rescue the nuclear scientists, kill U.S. and Israeli troops and seize their laptops containing secret information.
If players fail a mission, a message pops up saying: “With resistance, you can battle the enemy.” Iran’s red, white and green flag flutters in the top right corner throughout the game.
AP also quotes him as saying, “We tried to promote the idea of defense, sacrifice and martyrdom in this game.”
Also See:
Associated Press – Iran’s new video game: ‘Rescue Nuke Scientist’, July 16, 2007
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July 19th, 2007 at 6:14 am
So does this mean that you get a bonus for being shot and killed? Games like this demonstrate how warped and deranged the whole “culture” actually is.
July 20th, 2007 at 11:38 pm
“So does this mean that you get a bonus for being shot and killed? Games like this demonstrate how warped and deranged the whole âcultureâ actually is.”
No it highlights how deranged and warped your mind is. American forces are more murderous than any other force on this planet.
August 10th, 2007 at 4:05 am
Seriously, pull your head out of your ass.
August 8th, 2008 at 4:42 am
No different from “AmericasArmy”. btw, can someone give me a download link for the iranian game?