Video Game Celebrates Fallujah Slaughter

[BreakForNews]

Video Game Celebrates Fallujah Slaughter

BreakForNews.com, 3rd Nov, 2004 11:00ET
by Fintan Dunne, Editor
Research KathyMcMahon EXCLUSIVE

If you thought the new video game inviting players to try their virtual skills at assassinating JFK was tasteless, hold on to your hat. A just-released mission in the Kuma wargame series is themed “Fallujah: Operation al-Fajr." It re-creates the recent assault on Fallujah, which may have left thousands of civilians dead.

Players join U.S. Marines and Army soldiers in their attack on the Jolan district in Fallujah. For the making of “Fallujah: Operation al-Fajr,” Kuma Reality Games used detailed satellite imagery of Jolan.

Publicity material for yesterday's new game says players "dodge sniper fire and protect civilians," while fighting to secure the Jolan district.

http://www.breakfornews.com/articles/KumaWarAlFajr.htm

[St. Etienne]

1. Nothing from video games suprise me anymore

:eyes:

[newyawker99]

10. Hi St,. Etienne!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[htuttle]

2. Next in the series: Auschwitz, The Game

"Can you stay on your execution schedule while the trains bring in more prisoners at an increasing rate? Don't fall behind or Der Fuhrer will have you replaced!

Fun for the whole family..."

[gWbush is Mabus]

4. lol - well kinda

[St. Etienne]

5. You forgot GTA Baghdad

You are part of a Muslim fundie group and strap bombs into cars to kill American invaders and get extra points for killing your own countrymen as well.

And do not forget Abu Ghraib tetris where you must stack the naked bodies correctly, and you can get crimes ignored by the DoD.

[Jack_DeLeon]

8. They could call it "Concentration Camp Tycoon"

you could build and run your own concentration camp.

If you run a sucessful camp and "process" enough people then der Fuhrer will increase your funding and give you a larger camp to run.

[Johonny]

11. cool

Patent that idea before it's too late. Are vidoe games bad? A little GTA after driving home form work is better than real life GTA while driving home for work. Heck concentration camp Tycoon could be eduational to all the people now trying to pretend it never really happened.

[lapfog_1]

3. I wonder if it will include

the extra option of killing off the wounded prisoners?

(Bonus points I believe)

[noordinaryspider]

6. I love my son's Compaq Presario....

....the onboard video card is not compatible with these games.

This really is the sickest one I've heard of yet.

[Blue_Tires]

7. only a matter of time before this happened, i guess

they've had vietnam FPS for years now (I can't talk that much, since I still play counter-strike pretty frequently)

[paper chase guy]

9. These are the same people who made the John Kerry thing

They made that John Kerry: Silver Star mission for KumaWar.

http://www.kumawar.com/Kerry/overview.php?PHPSESSID=75280f27811f71a605bd9061a21af69a

I'm what I guess you could call a pretty heavy gamer (somehow I hate that term), follow the related news somewhat religiously, and I'd never heard of KumaWar before the John Kerry thing. Somehow, I don't think their stuff is probably any good.

I doubt kids are playing these, it's probably mostly older grognards interested in realism.