Operation Iraqi Freedom - The Game

Thanks to the Dallas Business Journal for a brief article announcing the release of F/A 18: Operation Iraqi Freedom, an Atari-distributed PC flight combat game that's just about to ship, less than 4 months after the start of the real-life campaign. The game's official website has more information on the title, which allows you to "..jump through your television directly into.. the F/A-18 Hornet.. load up with precision guided munitions and bring the forces of freedom to bear on the Iraqi regime of terror." And yes, this upgrade of GraphSim's earlier popular F/A 18 Hornet flight sim really does exhort you to "Kick Some Ba'ath" on the features section of its site.

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Cheat codes

[Anonymous Coward]

Heare are the leaked cheat codes.

Type IDONTGIVEASHITTOTHERESTOFTHEWORLD to toggle God Mode on.

Type IDOGIVEASHITTOTHERESTOFTHEWORLD to plant fake nukes and bombs, so they can be found.

Type F117 for stealth mode

Type ELECTIONSAPPROACHING to have access to all budget, all weapons, ammo and 200% armor

Type CHEMICALWEAPONSHOAX to get beserk strength

Type IAMSADDAM to get temporary invisibility

Type IAMTIRAQIINFORMATIONMINISTER to boost the mood of your troops

Rant/bitchfest (Ignore this post)

[Mmm coffee]

"..jump through your television directly into.. the F/A-18 Hornet.. load up with precision guided munitions and bring the forces of freedom to bear on the Iraqi regime of terror."

I am so sick and tired of this "raa raa we are American we are the second coming of Jesus with an 8 inch dick" hyper-BS propeganda. Wasn't the Iraq war about weapons of mass destruction? Where's the WMD? Why haven't I heard of any WMD being found without it being debunked 2 days later? Shrubya got a hard on for Iraq, the boys at the top spat in the face of the UN and pissed everyone off, and in the end we went in to find WMD. But then you find nothing and suddenly everyone forgets about the WMD that everyone was so afraid of. In the blink of an eye the mindless flag-waving faux-patriots went from "Oh dear God, Saddam's going to kill us all!" to "We're freeing the people of Iraq because we're nice guys, isn't it great?"

Orwell's 1984 is overquoted so much today that it's unreal. And yet every single time I look at the news I am so starkly reminded of it. We are at war with Oceanina. We have always been at war with Oceaninia, and the earth itself will open wide and swallow us all if we didn't bomb Iraq to hell so we could free the people from the very beginning. What the hell is this? When exactly did I start having to defend the fact that what happened a year ago actually happened? Nobody says crap about WMD, it's all about freeing the people. Screw the Iraqis, until we find a big assed nuke with "Hi there!" painted on the side we've just taken out a government for no good reason other than "they pissed us off". But nobody cares. We freed some people! We are America, our farts smell of petunias. Everytime I hear someone state that we had the right to bomb the hell out of a nation of people "just because we're the U.S." my faith in humanity dims.

This game sickens me. Here is a video game based off government propeganda and bad news reporting. Take the most basic BS about this war, toss it into a 3D engine, and BOOM - you've undoubtedly got millions of idiots willing to shell out $50 so they can stop watching CNN and start blowing the hell out of some brown guy in the privacy of their own home. Gotta love the Iraqi war. If the face of freedom is a nice big bomb, then I must have really got some lovin' back when Lisa Campbell racked me in the nads back in the 8th grade.

I love the principles that America was founded on. That's why I'm ashamed to call myself an American.

I really need a fattie. Too bad the shnizt's illegal.