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"Jesus Loves A Machine Gun": SFGate.com's review of the new Left Behind video game

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:27 PM EDT

In this biting review, columnist Mark Morford blasts the upcoming video game based on the best-selling "Left Behind" book series. Depending on your political and religious leanings, you will likely either love or hate this review. Choice selections include:

It's an ultraviolent, hilariously inept, wondrously accurate portrayal of what every true right-wing Christian fundamentalist really fantasizes about after they've had one too many pink wine spritzers and have logged a few hours in the gay chat rooms and have sufficiently indoctrinated their happily numb kids with tales of vile homos and scary "progressive" liberals who want to buy them candy and tattoo their sacrums and feed them organic hot dogs.

It's "Grand Theft Auto" for the Rick Santorum set. It's "Resident Evil 4" for American Family Association types who eat too much BGH meat and never have sex.

And:

We can never forget: These are the people who still whisper into Dubya's ear when he's playing with his little green army men in the White House bathtub....Their power may be waning slightly as BushCo crumbles, but their agenda remains deeply sickening.

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Darrell J. Rohl

While this certainly doesn't sound like the kind of "good Christian" game my parents would have wanted me to play growing up, I think Morford's review was a little over the top. The name dropping, name calling, and painting of many Christians as hardcore fundamentalists intent on killing all others is clearly unnecessary. At the same time, the game sounds like it's shaping up to strongly support this type of image. That's too bad.

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#1 - Sun Jun 11, 2006 8:35 PM EDT
talking monkey

I was at E3 this year and the LB:EF people had someone showing off their game in a little corner of the convention center. Now I wish I would of actually played the game! (sarcasm)

Aw well such is life, hey I'm just impressed you can play as the Anti-Christ forces. I'd play the game just to take out all that pent up aggression on the wannabe Christians but I couldn't think of actually giving these people more money.

BTW, unfortunately there is an Aryan Nation like game called Ethnic Cleansing. It looks horrible in all aspects of art and game play and more than anything, taste.

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#2 - Mon Jun 12, 2006 12:31 AM EDT