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Berlin Wall 'Death Strip' Game Sparks Outrage In Germany
gzipped_tar writes
"According to Spiegel Online, 'A new computer game where players assume the roles of border guards and shoot people trying to escape from communist East Germany has unleashed a storm of controversy in Germany. The game's creator says he wanted to teach young people about history, but he has been accused of glorifying violence. ... The name of the multi-player FPS game, 1,378 (kilometers), was inspired by the length of the border between East and West Germany. ... [Players] choose between the roles of the border guards or would-be escapees: the escapee only has one goal — to get over the wall, but the border guard has more options, and can shoot or capture the escapee. He can also swap sides and try to clamber over the border defenses himself.' By choosing to play the border guard and kill the escapee, the player would win an in-game medal from the government of East Germany. But then the guard would time-travel forward to the year 2000, where he would have to stand trial. Jens Stober, 23, designed the game as a media art student at the University of Design, Media and Arts in Karlsruhe. He said that his intention was to teach young people about German history."
It wasn't handjobs and kittens you know.
Actually, mixing those two things together would be pretty painful.
Not if you keep your nails short.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
SPOILER
The krauts lose, twice.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
For sale, one awesome game idea: Coonhunter. You spend the game putting down uppity racoons, perhaps by setting fire to effigies at their nests, perhaps by trapping them, perhaps with a shotgun fight or two. You'll do this outfitted as a ghost.
Price: Your sense of decency and shame.
They could rename them Taliban^h^h^h^h^h^h^h opposing forces.
..can you choose to not escape? Maybe wander around the empty town, chatting with the air and living out your life in peace?
I would caution against talking about kitty porn jokingly.
Well, I like pussy. But kittens are underage.
I'm not learning history until I find a copy of this game.
Though I'm not sure how much it's going to reflect history when I set the escapee to god mode. Unless of course anyone has heard stories of an invulnerable air walking no clipping escape from east germany destroying guards left and right. I'm sure it probably happened sometime even if no one reported it.
"You should always go to other people's funerals; otherwise, they won't come to yours." -- Yogi Berra
Hitler had nothing to do with Dance Dance Revolution. That was Mao.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
The game pits Germans vs Germans fleeing from Germany to Germany, really a useful spoiler...
Justice is the sheep getting arrested while an impartial judge declares the vote void.
Rhapsody in Numbers
As least he knows what the shift key is.