PlayStations of the Cross

theodp writes "Is there a place amid the witches, warlocks and diabolical monsters for Christian video games? The NY Times reports companies like Brethren Entertainment ('Entertaining for Eternity'), Digital Praise ('Glorifying God Through Interactive Media'), and N'Lightning believe that there is a market in faith-based video games. If the idea of Christian first-person shooters seems unlikely, so too did the idea of Christian pop music, which accounted for 7% of the total pop-music market and sold 43+ million albums last year."

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Re:Crusades

[hey!]

You could run around and try to convert people, and when they won't give up all of their beliefs and conform to something they've never heard of, you can kill them.

This would have been a great improvement upon the actual crusades, where people were simply slaughtered out of hand without the chance to convert. One account of the sacing of Jeruselem in the first crusade states that at one place in the city the blood ran to the depth a mounted knight's stirrups.

Re:Crusades

[macdaddy357]

To make it a challenge, some of the heathens would have to fight back, like those moozlim ayrabs who don't pray to jesus. When they do fight back, you get to call them terrorists and really bring out the heavy artillery.

Your game would have to have some witch burnings, and some bonus stages where no one fights back, and wiping them out is pretty easy. Pogrums for example: those jews in their synagogues are probably just doing witchcraft in there. Go in and kill them and the rabbi, and burn the place down, later there is a level called holocaust where you really wipe them out, and later still; you suddenly support Isreal with your whole heart, and prop up this jewish state because it is part of your recipe for armageddon.