The News: Wafaa Bilaal, maker of Quest for Sadaam, is making a game entitled "Night of the Bush Capturing!" Basically you play as a Muslim extremist and you work your way through the United States to assassinate the president. *sigh* Bilaal goes on to state that video games are " medium of our time." he goes on to say that he changed the game because Quest for Sadaam had thinking in it that was the norm, then he modified it and now it is labelled as propaganda and a recruitment tool.
My View: This is just stupid. How on earth does anyone expect to make a political statement through video games? Most gamers are very apathetic in terms of politics and the American government doesn't give a shit about a game made by an indie developer. I just don't understand how anyone thinks this is going to change anything. I don't get how he doesn't realize that making a game in which you assassinate the president would get you labeled as an extremist whack job. This man's intellect just baffles me to no end.
Source: http://ve3d.ign.com/articles/news/37743/Night-of-Bush-Capturing
http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=128537
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Wow, how weird is that? I am pretty sure that if you do anything targeted at killing the president you are labeled as extremist and usually crazy. While I may not agree with everything he has done that does not mean I should talk about killing him or anything.
Baffling idea for a game for one thing. The other thing is that no game has changed my views polically at all. War is not something that people find as a fun or glorious thing. Diplomacy is the best choice when a government wants something done. However, I can't think of a game that is a World War 2 Diplomacy game, just First Person Shooters.
CoD4 creates a war in the Middle East and in no way makes me want to go to war in the Middle East. First Person Shooters are fun and high action, but they do not make me want to go shooting people.
I don't know what this guy plans to accomplish with this game, aside from getting himself on the FBI's list of people to observe.
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