Demo is on Gamespot, at the least.

I'm getting ready to try it out right now.

nightwng2000
NW2K Software

@Grahamr

Indeed - and how, may I ask, do they 'fight you' with it?

@Darth_Toxic

According ot the article, listening makes people "loose their religon" so it's prayer in reverse.

I can't say of that makes anti-rock n' roll or it's just toung-in-cheak however, we'd need to see it in game to know.

Has that tracker worm that was in the game been removed yet?
It was soem form of in game advert was it not?

Ok, after playing the first 2 levels in the Storyline part of the demo... I got bored.

True, RTS games usually start out pretty boring. Simple get from Point A to Point B without dying.

Still, the camera is a pain having to swing it around manually.

And the demo has a flaw in Mission 2, not sure if it is in the real game or not. A secondary objective appears to have been placed in an unreachable position outside the accessible map area. At least it wasn't a required objective.

Despite the background of the storyline (The Rapture), I would think that a government would come up with a more plausable excuse for a good deal of the population around the world disappearing. However, a claim that a significant portion of the world's population disappeared because of an EMP wave seems very difficult for even me to believe. And supposedly claiming that the government's excuse that some disappeared while others didn't because those who did were "weak" is, frankly, a pretty "weak" storypoint.

Will this game promote violence? Only out of the aggrevation of the camera difficulties or the need to sit through a reload time to restart a mission. Will it promote bigotry? No more so than the book series or any particular religious belief in general.

As RTSs(es? ies?) go, in general, you'll be looking at the quality of an RTS from around 2001-2003.

If you're a follower of the book series, it might be worth it. If you're open minded enough to treat this as an alternate reality possibility, it may not be high on your list based on plausible excuses given by the government, but it may be an acceptable diversion.

If I were to give it a 1-10 rating like Gamespot, then I might say around 7.4. Demo is decent enough. But overall, nothing spectacular.

nightwng2000
NW2K Software

Okay maybe I was wrong. First of all, by hysterical Christians, I mean people who think they're above everyone else and think that everything is bad and a sin. I have been around people like that all my life. I have also really been hated for no reason by holier than thou type people and there was a time in my life, in particular, when I really felt hated by some Christians and I was very mad about that. Quake and Unreal Tournament helped me out tremendously in getting over it. Anyway I was slandered by people who I consider to be people who think they're perfect. However, I have also been treated very nicely by other Christians, but the difference is that Christians who don't think they're perfect and holier than everyone else, are generally nicer. I didn't mean to attack all Christians. I only have a problem with the ones who think they're perfect and go around being mean to people. Now about the game, I have read about it on other websites and I got the impression that it was suppose to somehow say that virtual violence is bad, but you're right I also read that many conservative holier than thou type Christians are against it and I was just guessing about Jack Thompson's view on it and I only really thought that because I have read, on other sites, that he even proposed a violent video game to somehow convince people that it's bad. I didn't get it all that well myself. However, if Jack Thompson is agianst it, as you claim, then I guess I really was wrong about it. The Christian theme just led me to believe that it was an attack on violent video games maybe I was wrong, but you're wrong, Arion, that Christians don't care about video games. Most web sites that condemn violent video games are Christian based. I can further prove it by saying that I was once a hysterical Protestant who thought everything was bad and I hate that time in my life. It was an uphill battle with my parents, when I decided it wasn't bad, to get these games because, naturally, they thought they were satanic, especially my mother, and we got into a lot of arguments over it.

Also I've heard that conservative Christians tried to get a game called 25 to Life banned. Also please think about this. Why would Gamepolitics.com exist if no one was making a stink about banning some games and how do politicians, or even Jack Thompson for that matter, know so much about these games and attack them so much? Who is it that brings these games to their attention and calls for them to ban these violent video games? Anti-game activists don't pull their ideas out of the air. They must come from someplace. I personally believe that politicians like Leland Yee woudn't be trying to pass anti-game laws if it weren't for the fact that somebody is bringing it to their attention. I think it's Christians, more than anyone else. Now I don't want you to think that I'm condemning Christianity because I am not. I have also been around Christian gamers who love gore fest games as much as I do and I have absolutely nothing against them. Christianity is a good religion and it's not that I'm against.

One more thing I'd like to add is that years ago, when I was hated by some Christians for no reason, these games were my only real escape and I started to realize that not everything is bad. I then got completely into the games and it was one thing to say negative things about me, but saying negative things about the only escape I had was more than I could stand. I sometimes get overzealous about defending violent video games, just as Jack Thompson does at attacking them, maybe you're right and it wasn't made for the purpose I initially thought it was. However, everything I said about coming agianst all game legislation stands firm. I sent an email to my representative urging her not to support the Family Entertainment Protection Act. I may have been wrong about somethings, but I'm not wrong about this. It says in the web site of the Video Game Voters Network that this act would dramatically decrease the number of violent video games out there. Maybe many Christians aren't against violent video games, but someone is and that someone won't give up without a fight. I'm sorry if I offended anyone, that certainly wasn't my intention. My sole purpose in posting things is to defend violent video games that's my sole purpose. Just for the record, I might still be against violent media and would probably be on the other side of the issue had it not been for a Christian. Very early in my life, I had a friend who was a Christian who got me interested a little bit in violent video games, but my mother kept saying they were evil and the last time I saw him, we played a game called Ares 51 and Mortal Kombat. After playing Mortal Kombat with him on that Tuesday in May of 1998, when I was eleven, I couldn't stop talking about how much I wanted violent video games and I finally conviced my father to let me have them because my mother never would have allowed it in a billion years, so a Christian friend of mine got me interested and I didn't mean to stereotype Christians many of them are good. I only have a problem with the bad ones that made me feel inferior for many years and attack the best thing I ever had in my childhood and my life.

Thank You,
A Concerned Video Gamer

@ Daniel

Please dont generalize or stereotype christians. Not even a tenth of the Chrisitan majority nor thier leaders give a damn about video games. They are misunderstood enough thanks to a very small, but loud group of hard right rich fatcat evangelicals warping an otherwise great misunderstood religion.

And I am not sure what sort of evil purpose Left behind was created for. The novels they are based on (really just fan fiction for Revelations enthusiests) sold quiet well. Its just a game for a different audience, nothing more.

And Jack Thompson doesnt like this game at all. GP has an article on the that in the past.

"Christianity is assuredly the most ridiculous, the most absurd and the most bloody religion which has ever infected this world." Voltaire

"Christianity demands the crucifixion of the intellect." Søren Kierkegaard

"I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough -- I call it the one immortal blemish upon the human race." -

"In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."

Friedrich Nietzsche

"If Christ existed today there is one thing he wouldn't be...a Christian"

Go on call Voltaire and Nietzsche satanists,sinners,evil and devils. The rest of the planet calls them geniuses... No wonder why...