Racist Group Launches Game Aimed at Killing Blacks, Latinos and Jews

[Overlord]

http://news.spong.com/detail/news.asp?prid=8928


SPOnG isn't a political site. We don't really get involved with much outside the world of videogames - it's outside of our remit, you see. However, when politics touches upon our little alcove in the rockface of digital entertainment, we believe it's not undue for us to pass comment.

And today, perhaps the most despicable game project we've ever come across hit our radar. The National Alliance, a group seemingly convinced that brown people will one day take over the world, has deployed Ethnic Cleansing, a first-person shooter with the aim of hunting down black, Asian, Jewish and, well you know, everyone falling inside Hitler's death remit, and shooting them. The game refers to its targets as 'predatory sub-humans' with 'Jewish masters.' According to reports, Ariel Sharon is included in the game as the final boss complete with phrases such as "We have destroyed your culture!", "We silenced Henry Ford," and "Filthy white dog, you have destroyed thousands of years of planning."

It's all a bit of a shame really. SPOnG often wonders how these people find the time to worry about brown people so much. And what makes them worry in the first place. As far as we've worked out, and forgive us if this sounds a little cliched, brown people are pretty much like white people. Except they are brown. Sometimes they speak a different language (as do white people, quite often), do some different stuff and eat unusual food. But we've never noticed any secretly trying to dilute the blood of our white members of staff. Of course, we might be wrong and we might one day find ourselves thrown in cages by brown people, who will, according to the National Alliance, be told what to do by Jewish people. And Jewish people aren't even brown! The only way you can tell Jewish people apart from being not-brown-not-Jewish people is when you're in the shower with them at school, unless they've taken to rocking those funky twirly sideburns and big hats.

Oh well... The National Alliance promises more videogames in the future, including a game about blowing up brown and Jewish people, rather than shooting them.


Theres no limit to the human imagination....a game white supremacists can enjoy (without leaving the house)

Scum

Eh.. It's their right to do it. Doubt the game will appeal to the wide majority of people, but I'm sure it will have its niche.

- Arkans

[crazymage]

Originally posted by Arkans
Eh.. It's their right to do it. Doubt the game will appeal to the wide majority of people, but I'm sure it will have its niche.

- Arkans


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I've already pre-ordered it.

[DeV]

I could have sworn I've seen this game on one of those White Power websites before. It seemed at the time to be crappy compared to other games out at the time, as far as graphics, sound, and game play period. Not sure how it looks now, but :thumbsdown: for anyone in the legitimate gaming industry even giving this crappy ass game airtime.

I could see if it was uber, but from what I remember, it definitely is not.

Well, it should be reviewed based on the quality of graphics, sound, gameplay, replayability just as any other game should be. It should not be given crappy reviews just because of the content (though it probably would if it was spectacular). If it is like what DeV said and the game is really that crappy, then I expected to be reviewed as the garbage that it is.

- Arkans

[Sean]

How do you not review a game on content. If a game has life like graphics, incredible sound, and the game control is great ... but the whole point of the game is to walk in circles I think it's fair that said game doesn't get glowing reviews based on it's objective.

There are obviously extreme of that, but if a game is steller, it shouldn't be given a crappy review just because you are Helmut the Super Nazi.

- Arkans

[DeV]

It's been reviewed as a garbage game many times before. I think had it been a better quality game we would have heard about it years sooner and the debate would not be as one-sided and would have been more controversial.

It just doen't look like they were going for quality at all, more just for the content of the game, ie killing anything that looks like a minority. Shock value and marketing a very particular group of self-proclaimed racists. I just hope the mainstream media will seperate the 'gaming' aspect with the 'content' aspect rather than going with a copy and paste version of an article about how this game will bring about the end of the world, influencing youth to be violent, yada yada yada.

I don't even see how any minority person could take offense to it. When I first saw it, the first thing I did was laugh. It's their right so I wouldn't agree if people were calling to "Ban the game" . All you'd have to do is look at the game itself, and draw your own conclusion.

I'm taking your word for it that the quality if very poor. Both for the reasons that I'm at work and not going to any white power sites and due to the fact that, yes, you're right.. High quality work would have had a lot more controversy. Oh well.. Poor quality work should be just seen as that.

- Arkans

[Celexei]

a game such as that is really sad though...paronoid white people are hilarious though

[Tsa`ah]

Content is a major part of any review. Games, movies, tangibles, edibles.

The attempt to intellectually defend a game such as this beyond any logic I posses. It is not a game where the violence is general and unfocussed. I could defend a war game, I could defend a game like GTA, but a game that focuses on ethnic cleansing ... well there really isn't a defense outside of the potential aesthetics.

It's a hate campaign intended to reach the apathetic gaming youth. Those that haven't formed any real philosophies outside of gaming.

While it is their right to produce such a game, it is everyone else’s right to review the game in any manner they wish. Do you really expect a would be target of said game to give it a glowing and fair review? They're going to say it's a shit game made by shit people with shit content that only some slack jack Billy bob missing half his teeth and a narrow unbranching family tree would enjoy.

Kudos to any game critic that speaks up and says it's a pile of shit not worth your money.

Tsa'ah, there is rumors that the next Call of Duty (Call of Duty 2) will have you in the boots of a Wehrmact soldier and even possible an SS Soldier. It is a shooting game, should this game be slammed as well?

- Arkans

[DeV]

I gave it a fair review. :(

It's not a new game by any stretch of the imagination. Matter of fact, it's years old news.

[Shalla]

How does the game work? Kinda like doom? where you get into certain locations kill the minority them accomplish a goal?

My imagination is at an all time low because I can't think of anything besides holes in the ground and you have minorities' head coming out and being shot with a shotgun.

Or like one of those shoot and kill games, where your goal is to shoot at a mexican climbing a fence, blow up asian refugee boat, or drown the little cuban boy floundering to miami.

And like all games, there will be obstacles.. and at one point or the other.. you will get pwned. Then you'll have a Game Over screen with an african american grinning having impregnanted your daugther.

I doubt it would be a very entertaining game for the kkk

:thumbsdown:

[Gan]

I know I'd not consent to letting my kid (whatever the age) posess much less play a game such as that in my house. Whats really sad is that some people would actually find this appealing.

Just like film, print, music, and now entertainment... there's only so much you can get away with before the content is too inflammatory distribute.

At what point does media such as this cross the line with freedom of speech?

I know it must pass the clear and present danger test and the O'Brien test... I guess it all depends on where the line is divided between game vs. real life, which is a line we have seen blurred many times before.

[Himmy]

<<Then you'll have a Game Over screen with an african american grinning having impregnanted your daugther. >>

That'd be total pwnage for a white supremacist. I'm sure that whoever made the game wouldn't let something like in that there. I can't say from first-hand experience however, as I really don't care to play such a thing. I'd rather have the unfocused violence of GTA: San Andreas. You can kill everyone in that game. Black, White, Jewish.. Hell, it doesn't matter.

[Hulkein]

If it's your job to review a game, and it has great qualities and a realistic story line based around a nazi, then you should grade it honestly.

It's the editor's decision on whether or not the review will ever be published.

[Edaarin]

Only blacks, Latinos, and Jews...?

I feel left out :no:

Completely random, but why is the word Latino always capitalized...?

[DeV]

Yes, it is kinda like a ghetto version of Doom, Shalla. First person shooter, and you start off by walking around a city resembling New York carrying a noose targeting blacks and hispanics.

[Drew]

Originally posted by DeV
It's not a new game by any stretch of the imagination. Matter of fact, it's years old news.


Yeah, I saw screen caps from this game like five years ago and it looked stupid then. Graphics seemed somewhere between Rise of the Triad and the original Quake in quality.

[DeV]

Originally posted by Hulkein
If it's your job to review a game, and it has great qualities and a realistic story line based around a nazi, then you should grade it honestly.

It's the editor's decision on whether or not the review will ever be published. I haven't seen any legit gaming zines review this game.

From the horses own mouth though:
http://www.resistance.com/ethniccleansing/reviews.htm

[Hulkein]

Heh, that's probably because the game is garbage and isn't really up to par with normal games on the shelf.

I was speaking hypothetically, more or less. I've never even heard of this game before today.

[Terminator X]

I play way too many video games and it is inevitable that I will stumble upon this one!

I will totally balance it out though with some good old fashioned Wolfenstein.

- Terminator X, minority :S

[Edited on 7-29-2005 by Terminator X]

[Terminator X]

Originally posted by Edaarin
Only blacks, Latinos, and Jews...?

I feel left out :no:

Completely random, but why is the word Latino always capitalized...?


Ethnic Cleansing, a first-person shooter with the aim of hunting down black, Asian, Jewish

Ish. For a second I thought it wasn't completely racist too :(

[Shalla]

Isn't there a law to make violent and descriminatory games sold only to people over 18? So if this game was sold to a minor. It's illegal. If a kkk parent is letting their kids play this game, should that be considered parental abuse?

I think I read it from somewhere that the state/government can't/won't stop a parent from educating their child with their beliefs, but they can however charge the parent for child abuse for providing them with +18 games. Or maybe I dreamt about reading it from somewhere :bleh:

[Drew]

Originally posted by Shalla
Isn't there a law to make violent and descriminatory games sold only to people over 18? So if this game was sold to a minor. It's illegal. If a kkk parent is letting their kids play this game, should that be considered parental abuse?

I think I read it from somewhere that the state/government can't/won't stop a parent from educating their child with their beliefs, but they can however charge the parent for child abuse for providing them with +18 games. Or maybe I dreamt about reading it from somewhere :bleh:


The game rating system is voluntary so this kind of game isn't rated anything at all. That's the beauty and the flaw of our type of society, the government can't (in theory) constrain you from teaching your kids what you want, it works for both good and bad but generally the good wins.

[Shalla]

Because KKK are in the minority. Not Caucasians.. but KKK.

Yay! :bleh:

[Tsa`ah]

Originally posted by Arkans
Tsa'ah, there is rumors that the next Call of Duty (Call of Duty 2) will have you in the boots of a Wehrmact soldier and even possible an SS Soldier. It is a shooting game, should this game be slammed as well?

- Arkans

That depends on whether or not there is a genocide message attached to it.

The game is based on history and history tells us that not every soldier in a german/nazi uniform did so willingly. They didn't exactly care for their dictator, nor did they accept his philosophy.

You're asking about a mango and we're talking about a Ford Pinto. The only thing the two have in common is violence. One advocates genocide, the other is a war reenactment.

Now if the game involved concentration camps, gas chambers, furnaces, and mass graves you had to fill with the "undesirables", then yes ... we would be discussing two mangos.

The only "fair" review said game deserves is calling it what it is. A pile of shit with a shit theme and shit graphics.

Just be thankful that the education level of most racist fucks doesn't extend beyond a HS junior or they may have done some honest to god coding and come up with better aesthetics.

This is, of course, pure speculation, but what the main character isn't just a conscript that is fighting for the man next to him, but actually fighting to preserve his country from occupation. He's fighting and killing for the Third Reich. I think it's foolish to say that there would be any pacification of villiages on the Russian Front or filling mass graves, but what if you're fighting for the Nazi ideal?

- Arkans

[Tsa`ah]

Originally posted by Arkans
This is, of course, pure speculation, but what the main character isn't just a conscript that is fighting for the man next to him, but actually fighting to preserve his country from occupation. He's fighting and killing for the Third Reich. I think it's foolish to say that there would be any pacification of villiages on the Russian Front or filling mass graves, but what if you're fighting for the Nazi ideal?

- Arkans

While we are aware of the events that took place during WWII, the attachment of Hitler's philosophy would be completely up to the person playing the game. I doubt the game designers will add that aspect to the game.

Think of it as a black and white WWII movie. Those generally left out that specific aspect of the war and made it about soldiers. That is what the game will do, make it about the soldiers and combat. Not about cocentration camps and genocide.

So again, that attachment is left to the player. Where in the other game, it is the theme.

I see your point, and to an extent, it was that way when you were the Russian soldier in Call of Duty 1. It never pushed Stalin's ideals on you or the Communist ideals. You could imagine the soldier (yourself) fighting for whatever cause you wanted.

- Arkans