Christian pc game

[Steven]

Apparently there exists a Christian computer game called Left Behind: Eternal Forces.

From the description:

Left Behind: Eternal Forces is a real-time strategy based on the best-selling "Left Behind" series. Join the ultimate fight of Good against Evil, commanding Tribulation Forces or the Global Community Peacekeepers, and uncover the truth about the worldwide disappearances! Wage a war of apocalyptic proportions and decide the fate of the world! Robust single player experience across dozens of New York City maps - Fighting in Chinatown, SoHo, Uptown and more! Play multiplayer games as Tribulation Force or the AntiChrist's Global Community Peacekeepers with up to eight players via LAN or over the internet

I love how the Antichrist's army is called the Global Community Peacekeepers - apparently in the books, he uses the United Nations to take over the world. Needless to say, I think someone needs to obtain a copy of this game (preferably without giving money to its creators  ). There's a review here.

[brian]

There were a lot of Christian video games.  Most of them sucked though.  I guess you have to sacrifice some gameplay to stick in the Christian messages, and I can imagine most of the good, non-fundamentalist game designers probably want to work for "real" video game companies.

there's some on vNES (http://virtualnes.com/), Bible Adventures, Bible Buffet (which ironically has nothing to do with the bible), King of Kings, Exodus, Spiritual Warfare, etc.  They are all made by Wisdom Tree, and they were all unauthorized and without the Nintendo Seal of Approval, as I don't think Nintendo was keen on having religious imagery (or anything else remotely offensive) in their games at that time.

Also, for a humourous review of some of those, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw

[Katie]

Well, of course they have to fight in Chinatown! All those heathen Budhhist Chinamen!

[X]

My nephews and niece have a Bible game for their X-Box.

It's in the format of a game show.  You answer questions or play minigames for points.  The number of points you get depends on where you stop the randomly lit up space on a selection board.  Just to make it interesting, there is a "Wrath of God" that pops up randomly instead of a point value, taking all your cumulative points for the turn.  My youngest nephew gets very angry playing the game because he doesn't realize that keeping one's turn going until every space is selected means you will eventually lose your points.

The game itself is stupid and indotrinating.  The questions range from the inane to the absurdly obscure.  The minigames are cheaply-made Bible stories.  Jacob's Ladder, Running from Lions, Stoning Phillistines, Crossing the Red Sea, etc.
It's stupid and childish, and tries ay to hard at being "wholesome family fun", a.k.a. indoctrination for the kiddies as expected from a "proper Christian Family".  I wish I could rescue my nephews and niece from the traps of dogma.


Review Here