Bangladeshi Liberation War Gets FPS Treatment 27
Thanks to The Daily Star for its story discussing the creation of Bangladesh's first domestically-created 3D videogame, based on their 1971 War of Independence, in which "you are a freedom fighter and your mission is to liberate your motherland by fighting the Pakistani occupation." The locally important game setting is explained: "The game works with the unique objective of the gamer as a student, farmer or an adolescent freedom fighter who either has to capture a flag from a Pakistani camp or dominate a Pakistani-occupied area in an environment digitally created in close resemblance with three historically-true battlefield -- Akhaura, Chittagong and Rajshahi." The title is hailed as "the first 'First person shooting game' made in Bangladesh", and the game CD also has educational elements, since it "will also feature historical background to the battlefields in 1971, essays, photographs and a chronological account of the War of Liberation."
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Uh...Germany didn't bother condemning them. They just outright banned them.
Is Vietnam condemning Battlefield Vietnam?
I haven't the faintest idea what the political situation is like in Vietnam, though I doubt that video gaming is a prominent issue there.
On a side note, imagine the fun we'd have playing a game based on the US/Canada war of 1812...
I think that sounds like fun.
On the other hand, I also thought that it would be fun to play not only as the police but as the sniper in a UT clocktower scenerio in one of the hostage rescue/counterterrorism games.
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Uh...Germany didn't bother condemning them. They just outright banned them
It should be noted, though, that Germany has rather strict laws regarding what can and can't be shown in games. Additionally, most Nazi imagery is illegal in Germany, regardless of context or medium.
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Nazi imagery is not illegal regardless of the context or the medium. It is illegal without appropriate historical context/annotation.
The German government deemed that a game for leisure doesn't provide the appropriate historical context, no matter how many soldiers and Nazis you may kill in it. There are ample German documentations and educational material all containing Nazi imagery. It is the single most important part in German history curricula. However, you'll probably have a hard time finding "Der Ewige Jude" [holocaust-history.org] uncut