Video Game Casts Tea Party and Patriot Groups as Enemy Terrorists

[Warlord]

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The latest installment of the popular Rainbow Six video game franchise casts Americans fed up with government corruption and banker domination as domestic terrorists intent on carrying out killings and bombings, yet another startling indication of how media is influencing the public to accept protesters and people generally upset with the way their government is being run as the new terrorist threat.

“In Tom Clancy’s Rainbow 6 Patriots, Team Rainbow faces a new and very real threat called the ‘True Patriots,’ a highly-trained, well-organized revolutionary group that claim the American government is irrevocably corrupted by greedy politicians and corporate special interests. The True Patriots will do whatever it takes to reclaim their country,” Ubisoft’s description of the game states.

The description goes on to label members of the fictitious movement as the “new breed of terrorists,” stating, “…players will face critical scenarios that will require them to make tough ethical decisions in order to stop this new breed of terrorists.”

http://www.infowars.com/video-game-casts-tea-party-and-patriot-groups-as-enemy-terrorists/

[surf]

not real familiar with these games, but can you play the "patriot" character?

- if so, xbox will pay special attention to you apparently

[JK/SEA]

bring it. I'm right here assholes.

[Occam's Banana]

Well ... at least they're not portraying them as racists ...


http://static.infowars.com/2013/06/i/general/gamesc2.jpg

[TheTexan]

One man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter....

In any case, things like this (and the DHS classification of right wingers as terrorists) means we're doing something right. It means we're getting their attention, and they see us as a threat. Take it as a compliment...

[aGameOfThrones]

Well ... at least they're not portraying them as racists ...

The guy with the gun is clearly a skinhead.

[kcchiefs6465]

They have another one coming out called "The Division" that looks pretty interesting. Ubisoft created it and I believe that it is related to Tom Clancy's work.

You are a man scrounging for food after the collapse. You have to make friends with other people and find things to trade. No joke.

[Brian4Liberty]

The SPLC is making video games now?

[CPUd]

http://i.minus.com/i91JFzAeNhdDT.gif

[HOLLYWOOD]

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six is a media franchise (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Media_franchise) created by American author Tom Clancy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Clancy) about a fictional international (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_relations) counter-terrorist (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Counter-terrorist) unit (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_unit) called "Rainbow." The franchise began with Clancy's novel Rainbow Six (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_Six_%28novel%29), which was adapted into a successful series of tactical first-person shooter (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tactical_first-person_shooter) video games (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_game).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rainbow_six
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/1/10/TomClancyRainbowSix.jpg/200px-TomClancyRainbowSix.jpg (https://encrypted.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&docid=7Y3GU5sFS_b6LM&tbnid=Gd2l_CzjwOBRIM:&ved=&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FTom_Cla ncy%27s_Rainbow_Six&ei=37O8UYj5GtL_rAGdnICgDQ&bvm=bv.47883778,d.aWc&psig=AFQjCNFklW_-n4zAHw3NiU4miStX33Woyw&ust=1371407707750221)

[nobody's_hero]

They have another one coming out called "The Division" that looks pretty interesting. Ubisoft created it and I believe that it is related to Tom Clancy's work.

You are a man scrounging for food after the collapse. You have to make friends with other people and find things to trade. No joke.

Agreed. That one looks bad-ass.

The story behind it is eerily plausible.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHYS2BBKY8

[tangent4ronpaul]

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Reason: Military-style violence including political assassinations and coup d'etats. Additionally, the game caused controversy in Washington due to the game's similarities to the World Trade Organization riots in Seattle.

State of Emergency is a controversial 2002 action-adventure video game released by Rockstar Games. It was developed by Scottish firm VIS Entertainment for the PlayStation 2, Xbox and Microsoft Windows. Hip Hop artists D-Stroy and Jean Grae provided voices for State of Emergency characters.

The game was supposed to cause considerable controversy for the level of military style violence and its coup d'etats styled, grass-roots 'urban political revolution' subject matter, featuring political assassinations of Orwellian, corrupt government executives. It faced accusations of being a "hooligan simulator" and calls from numerous groups, most notably from a number of tabloids and 'concerned parents watch-dog' groups in the USA & UK to be banned. It received an "M-18" certificate, for amongst other things, the use of vicariously simulated military firearms.

Additionally, the game was denounced by Washington state politicians for its similarity to the real-life 1999 World Trade Organization riots and protests in Seattle which caused $3 million in damages. The game features the fictional "American Trade Organization" as the antagonistic establishment.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt6ZIQw3d-Y&feature=player_embedded


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMaO9iSPjGU

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[Neil Desmond]

You can put a video game of anything you want on the market. That's free enterprise, freedom of speech, etc. for you. All this does is cause me to brainstorm all sorts of ideas for video games:

* Squish'em - a game where you earn points by running over & killing as many women and children as possible with monster trucks
* Striko - you & your buddies are strikers & pro-union protesters beating up scabs
* Pinko - you're a community organizer on a mission to create an authoritarian paradise
* Spyworld - set up surveillance, eavesdropping, wiretapping, and other means of information gathering without letting people find out.

[DamianTV]

"You are either with us, or you are with the Terrorists." - George W. Bush

Thus, simply not fully supporting the Status Quo makes you a Terrorist.

[talkingpointes]

Awesome, I just got a free GTX 580 yesterday, I'll have to try it out.

[Anti Federalist]

* Squish'em - a game where you earn points by running over & killing as many women and children as possible with monster trucks

LOL - Already a movie, eerie in it's prescience actually, in 1975.

Death Race 2000

In an alternate timeline of the late 1970s, the United States is no more due to a financial crisis and military coup. Major political parties have collapsed into a single Bipartisan Party, which also acts as a unified national church. The resulting fascist police state, the United Provinces, is headed by "Mr. President" (Sandy McCallum). The country is kept satisfied through a stream of gory gladiatorial entertainment, including the Annual Transcontinental Road Race, a symbol of "modern values and way of life". During the coast-to-coast, three-day race points are scored not just for speed, but for the number of innocent pedestrians killed during the race.

And a video game in 1976

Death Race

In the game, designed by Howell Ivy and inspired by the 1975 cult film Death Race 2000 by Paul Bartel (starring David Carradine and Sylvester Stallone, and produced by Roger Corman), one or two players control an on-screen car (two cars if two players played) with a steering wheel and an acceleration pedal. The object was to run down "gremlins" who were fleeing the vehicle. As the player hit them, they would scream or squeal and be replaced on-screen by tombstones. This increased the challenge of the game as the screen cluttered up and the player had to avoid the tombstones.

I'm sure it's been copied and re-made 100 times since...

[Feeding the Abscess]

The info is from a gaming magazine that was published in December of 2011. Is this game even coming out? I haven't even heard anything about it since.

[AngryCanadian]

Agreed. That one looks bad-ass.

The story behind it is eerily plausible.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOHYS2BBKY8


Seems like they redesigned the single player and story so the final game and version wont feature Party and Patriot Groups as terrorists otherwise it would have being to obvious.

[Warlord]

The info is from a gaming magazine that was published in December of 2011. Is this game even coming out? I haven't even heard anything about it since.

Games often take a while to be 'developed'. I assure you the programmers are hard at work in Karachi.

[Antischism]

Who cares? There are games about all types of things.

Take the upcoming PS3 game inFAMOUS: Second Son


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCff_5vBt84

About the folly of trading freedom for security, the uselessness of cops, security cameras spying on us, people being monitored, etc.


Deus Ex: Human Revolution is another good one.

The original Bioshock is a take on Objectivism gone wrong. There are a lot of games out there with political messages.

[Cleaner44]

What was it that Nixon said?

"We're all terrorists now"

Wait, what...

Anyway the whole label of terrorist is meaningless now. After 12 years of supposedly crushing the approximately 5000 member strong Al-Qaeda, our government has to justify having millions of Americans on the terror list, especially considering how many of our military members have died (Afghanistan=2100+, Iraq=4400+) to wipe out Al-Qaeda. It is a classic case of the government never solving a problem and requesting increasingly more money to solve said problem. The number of terrorists apparently grows, rather than declines, and so they need more money, more surveillance and more weapons to battle the never ending story of terrorists. We're all terrorists now.

[Anti Federalist]

Never ending war.


What was it that Nixon said?

"We're all terrorists now"

Wait, what...

Anyway the whole label of terrorist is meaningless now. After 12 years of supposedly crushing the approximately 5000 member strong Al-Qaeda, our government has to justify having millions of Americans on the terror list, especially considering how many of our military members have died (Afghanistan=2100+, Iraq=4400+) to wipe out Al-Qaeda. It is a classic case of the government never solving a problem and requesting increasingly more money to solve said problem. The number of terrorists apparently grows, rather than declines, and so they need more money, more surveillance and more weapons to battle the never ending story of terrorists. We're all terrorists now.

[kcchiefs6465]

Did anyone ever play that video game for the PS2 where you murdered some guy in a bathroom? You have to sneak out of the area and avoid witnesses. The police end up coming to your apartment and if you didn't throw away your bloody clothes, for example, you were caught. It would have dialogue with the police or your neighbors and you had to answer their questions right. Then you went to work and had to act like nothing happened but the screen would cut to flashbacks of the killing.

Lmao thinking about it now, but I played some crazy games when I was a kid.

I just found it and the name is Indigo Prophecy. You want to see a f'ed up video game check that one out. Here's the description:


The story begins when Lucas Kane, in a possessed trance, stabs a man in the restrooms of an East Side diner and then flees the scene in confusion. There have been similar, ritualistic murders in New York. Valenti is the officer charged with solving the case, and tracking down Kane. Other characters in the game include Marcus Kane, the priest brother of Lucas, and Tyler Miles, Carla's police partner.

[A Son of Liberty]

The guy with the gun is clearly a skinhead.

And the guy beside him is clearly a black man.

[JorgeStevenson]

* Pinko - you're a community organizer on a mission to create an authoritarian paradise
* Spyworld - set up surveillance, eavesdropping, wiretapping, and other means of information gathering without letting people find out.

Tropico is a series of construction and management simulation computer games developed by PopTop Software and published by Gathering of Developers in April 2001.[1] The games see the player taking the role of "El Presidente," the ruler of an island in the Caribbean during the Cold War era from the 1950s onward.
The game is tongue-in-cheek in its presentation of banana republics, using a great deal of humor while still referencing such topics as totalitarianism, electoral fraud, and the interventions of powerful companies (United Fruit is implied) and the Cold War superpowers (the United States and Soviet Union).

Watch Dogs is an action-adventure stealth video game in which players control a man named Aiden Pearce (voiced by Noam Jenkins),[8] who can hack into various electronic devices tied to the city's central operating system (ctOS), allowing various methods for the player to solve numerous objectives.[9] Examples include hacking into people's phones to retrieve bank data and steal funds, triggering malfunctions in equipment to distract other characters and hacking into traffic lights to cause collisions. Players can also receive information on civilians via augmented reality feeds, providing the player with information on demographics, health and potential behaviour. Objectives showcased in presentations include finding specific targets to kill, evading the police and following potential victims in order to stop their would-be killers. Combat utilizes a combination of stealth components and parkour, along with the mechanics of a cover-based third-person shooter.[10] The game features an elusive online multiplayer element in which another player can control surveillance cameras in an attempt to hack the main player.[10]

[Antischism]

Did anyone ever play that video game for the PS2 where you murdered some guy in a bathroom? You have to sneak out of the area and avoid witnesses. The police end up coming to your apartment and if you didn't throw away your bloody clothes, for example, you were caught. It would have dialogue with the police or your neighbors and you had to answer their questions right. Then you went to work and had to act like nothing happened but the screen would cut to flashbacks of the killing.

Lmao thinking about it now, but I played some crazy games when I was a kid.

I just found it and the name is Indigo Prophecy. You want to see a f'ed up video game check that one out. Here's the description:

That's a great game. I remember playing it all in one sitting.
The makers of that game also created Heavy Rain for the PS3 and are releasing Beyond: Two Souls later this year.

[James Madison]

Did anyone ever play that video game for the PS2 where you murdered some guy in a bathroom? You have to sneak out of the area and avoid witnesses. The police end up coming to your apartment and if you didn't throw away your bloody clothes, for example, you were caught. It would have dialogue with the police or your neighbors and you had to answer their questions right. Then you went to work and had to act like nothing happened but the screen would cut to flashbacks of the killing.

Lmao thinking about it now, but I played some crazy games when I was a kid.

I just found it and the name is Indigo Prophecy. You want to see a f'ed up video game check that one out. Here's the description:

Pssh, you wanna see a f'ed up video game, look no further than Silent Hill 2.

*Spoilers for Silent Hill 2*

You spend the better part of ten hours looking for your dead wife, while being pursued by some dude with a pyramid for a head, only to learn that you actually killed said wife as she slowly wasted away from a terminal illness.

[DamianTV]

The guy with the gun is clearly a skinhead.

So everyone that suffers from hair loss is now considered to by Govt to be a Domestic Terrorist. Thats rich!

[Feeding the Abscess]

Games often take a while to be 'developed'. I assure you the programmers are hard at work in Karachi.

I'm pretty well plugged in to the industry. It's a bad sign for release when a game's gone dark for 18 months, and the game wasn't featured by Ubisoft at either of the last two E3 conferences. On top of that, the team that was developing the game underwent restructuring in 2012, with the head developer moving on to another project.

[aGameOfThrones]

And the guy beside him is clearly a black man.


Clearly a Clayton Bigsby type.