Guantanamo, The Game
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A Scottish firm is turning the George W. Bush prison on Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, into a game!
“Guantanamo will be closed,” said The Guardian in January, going on, “The secret CIA prisons will be shut down. And torture and other ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ will be prohibited.”
Maybe not.
But while the Obama administration ponders, Glasgow developer T-Enterprise has sprung into action with Rendition: Guantanamo, an Xbox 360 video game based on life in the US detention camp.
Life in the US detention camp, eh?
That’ll be fun, waterboarding and all. And it stars former detainee Moazzam Begg.
He’s, “captured behind enemy lines and sold to Guantanamo for illegal scientific experiments,” says the video trailer,
The prison mercenaries who buy him call themselves the, “very Bushian-sounding ‘Freedom Corp’,” says Prison Planet, going on »»»
The Freedom people then brought in scientists to experiment on the inmates. The main character, who does not bear Begg’s likeness, is captured and brutally tortured, then shipped off to Guantanamo.
Begg, whose wife gave birth to a son six months after he was imprisoned, did not meet his progeny until the boy was three years old.
Similarly, in Rendition, the main character’s driving pathos appears to be news that he’s got a son on the outside.
So it’s, “time to fight back,” says the trailer.
They’re probaby green with envy over at RockStar, home of GTA.
The Guardian – The end of Guantánamo, January 22, 2009
Prison Planet – Guantanamo Bay: Coming to an Xbox near you, June 1, 2009
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June 2nd, 2009 at 11:32 am
pointless BS
June 2nd, 2009 at 2:40 pm
Don’t like it, don’t but it. I fully support its right to exist.
After all, we have games based on Nazis, Viet Nam, etc .,
why should our own transgressions be ignored ?
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:51 am
If games are where people live out their fantasies and this becomes popular like all the other strange games out there, then something is quite wrong with society. Who fantasizes about rapes and murder? Who dreams about being an inmate and having to kill other inmates to survive?
Those people are uncontrollable and unpredictable, so they are useless to the CIA/Military, so what good are games like these? You can’t even use game sales as a means of profiling or screening. I know they desensitize, which they do during training, but there’s a huge difference between a video game and reality.
So, again, who has these types of fantasies and requires a game to give them release of these fantasies? How about doing something really challenging, like working at Walmart and trying to support a family of 4, all the while raising your kids to be intelligent, objective, creative, and aware of the world around them. That is, aware of more than just what’s in their backyard or on the TV.
June 3rd, 2009 at 8:33 pm
Does anyone remember the PC game called Ethnic Cleansing?