Related Tags
Latest comments
Latest forum comments
News
British general condemns live footage in war game
A new games company called Kuma Reality Games is planning on releasing games which use actual video footage from warzones, shot by soldiers and so-called 'embedded' journalists.
With Kuma Wars the company will try to give broadband internet gamers a thrilling war experience:
With Kuma Wars the company will try to give broadband internet gamers a thrilling war experience:
Kuma: War is a PC-based first person shooter that puts players in the frontlines of international conflict, deploying them into authentic re-creations of breaking news that are updated weekly via their broadband connections.
Kuma War will enable players to go on recreated missions such as the bomb raid that killed Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, complete with the exact munitions involved in the raid.
BUT... protest have already risen. First to speak out was retired British general Sir Michael Rose who thinks that using video footage shot by 'real' soldiers in conflict situation is highly bizarre:Kuma War will enable players to go on recreated missions such as the bomb raid that killed Saddam Hussein's two sons, Uday and Qusay, complete with the exact munitions involved in the raid.
"War is not a game and the moral issues involved in taking live footage and turning it in to a game are questionable."
Sir Michael Rose
Source: BBC Online
In other news:
4 Comment(s)
Enigma
looks like condoms now :)
Speed
goeroezeboe (old)
daffeh
Why in hell would we want to be "educated" in entertaining games. Why don't they release a docu dvd or smth for ppl who actually wanna see this.