Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany 193
gzipped_tar writes
"According to Spiegel Online, 'A new computer game where players assume the roles of border guards and shoot people trying to escape from communist East Germany has unleashed a storm of controversy in Germany. The game's creator says he wanted to teach young people about history, but he has been accused of glorifying violence. ... The name of the multi-player FPS game, 1,378 (kilometers), was inspired by the length of the border between East and West Germany. ... [Players] choose between the roles of the border guards or would-be escapees: the escapee only has one goal — to get over the wall, but the border guard has more options, and can shoot or capture the escapee. He can also swap sides and try to clamber over the border defenses himself.' By choosing to play the border guard and kill the escapee, the player would win an in-game medal from the government of East Germany. But then the guard would time-travel forward to the year 2000, where he would have to stand trial. Jens Stober, 23, designed the game as a media art student at the University of Design, Media and Arts in Karlsruhe. He said that his intention was to teach young people about German history."
Re:It should make you uncomfortable (Score:5, Funny)
It wasn't handjobs and kittens you know.
Actually, mixing those two things together would be pretty painful.
Re:It should make you uncomfortable (Score:3, Funny)
Not if you keep your nails short.
Re:You know what they say (Score:4, Funny)
SPOILER
The krauts lose, twice.
ok, I'm getting into the business. (Score:1, Funny)
For sale, one awesome game idea: Coonhunter. You spend the game putting down uppity racoons, perhaps by setting fire to effigies at their nests, perhaps by trapping them, perhaps with a shotgun fight or two. You'll do this outfitted as a ghost.
Price: Your sense of decency and shame.
Re:History (Score:1, Funny)
They could rename them Taliban^h^h^h^h^h^h^h opposing forces.
If you're playing an escapee.. (Score:2, Funny)
..can you choose to not escape? Maybe wander around the empty town, chatting with the air and living out your life in peace?
Re:It should make you uncomfortable (Score:4, Funny)
I would caution against talking about kitty porn jokingly.
Re:It should make you uncomfortable (Score:1, Funny)
Re:But who is re-writing history here? (Score:5, Funny)
I'm not learning history until I find a copy of this game.
Though I'm not sure how much it's going to reflect history when I set the escapee to god mode. Unless of course anyone has heard stories of an invulnerable air walking no clipping escape from east germany destroying guards left and right. I'm sure it probably happened sometime even if no one reported it.
Re:You know what they say (Score:3, Funny)
Hitler had nothing to do with Dance Dance Revolution. That was Mao.
Re:You know what they say (Score:2, Funny)
The game pits Germans vs Germans fleeing from Germany to Germany, really a useful spoiler...
Re:Ob (Score:3, Funny)
Re:History (Score:1, Funny)