Islamic RTS game on the way
posted at 11:37 am on June 25, 2007 by Bryan
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It was only a matter of time before someone hijacked the greatness that is Command & Conquer and made its bizarro twin:
A Syrian games company is currently in the process of creating a strategy game which tells the story of the first 100 years of Islam’s history.
The company is hoping that ‘Al-Quraysh‘ will correct the general public’s attitudes towards Islam, alleviate tensions in the West, and help in teaching young Muslims about the early history of their religion.
The players can choose to command the armies of four different nations, namely Bedouins, Arabs, Persians and Romans, or lead the army of the protagonist, a Muslim warrior by the name of Khaled Ibn Waleed who defeated the Roman and Persian empires having not lost a single battle. The roles involved in the game include building and protecting trade routes and water sources, building armies, conducting battles and freeing slaves.
It’s revisionist history, in other words.
I have a question, though: How will the game depict the first 100 years of Islam without showing Mohammed? And won’t showing him, in any way, require having an image of him? Isn’t that strictly haram?
Just asking.
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Can’t wait to kill infidels and slaughter Jews with my friends online!
Vyce on June 25, 2007 at 11:42 AM
A war game that teaches Muslims about the
earlyhistory of their religion. Interesting. Obvious, but interesting.Heralder on June 25, 2007 at 11:44 AM
A game for the whole family!
amerpundit on June 25, 2007 at 11:44 AM
Just what I’ve been looking for! I finally have the tools to teach my kids. I see many good times ahead.
ophelia on June 25, 2007 at 11:46 AM
For total realism, the game should include the gory practices mentioned in the Koran. Say the ones in 22: 19-22, 5: 33-3, etc.
Also, the player should be able to research specific tortures, Age of Empire style. Perhaps something like “Boiling Oil – additional 25% resistance to conversion from Islam.”
And -freeing- slaves? Give me a break. Muslims had blacks in chains before America was even a twinkle in George Washington’s eye.
Dark-Star on June 25, 2007 at 11:46 AM
This is cool and all, but my questions are this…
1. How many wives do you get to marry/own?
and a follow-up
2. Can I mutilate their genitals?
3. Is there an interactive beheading tutorial?
4. Will there be a design-your-own suicide bomber vest?
I’d love to go out with a Dora the Explorer or Diego logo on my sleeve.
5. Will the game be automatically interrupted for mandatory prayer sessions?
There are too many questions left unanswered for me to invest in this yet.
C&C Rules!
Dr.Cwac.Cwac on June 25, 2007 at 11:48 AM
…building armies, conducting battles, freeing slaves, hiding in caves, killing or marrying children, crushing dissent…
sunny on June 25, 2007 at 11:49 AM
Agreed, revisionist history at its greatest. First comes freeing slaves, then comes the Muslims building a Hand of Nod.
Grafted on June 25, 2007 at 11:50 AM
brilliant, what better way to teach about the religion of peace, than with a war game. Who gets the profits?
no pun intended.
VTWaldrup on June 25, 2007 at 11:52 AM
Eh I’ll either zerg them with cheap camel units or tech up to IED’s and flying carpets to do a drop on their base. Do Bedouins get turrets?
Dash on June 25, 2007 at 11:53 AM
Dash,
Coffee shorts out electronics, something your post has reminded me of.
Heralder on June 25, 2007 at 11:55 AM
Can we get Robert to do a review when it comes out? ;)
Connie on June 25, 2007 at 11:55 AM
At least they’re being honest that their religion was spread solely by the sword, and not by the testimony of martyrs.
corbettw on June 25, 2007 at 11:56 AM
They’ll move a million copies worldwide, with a surprisingly strong number in the USA with self-hating lefty whites and the many proud Muslims in America’s corporate IT departments.
ScottMcC on June 25, 2007 at 11:58 AM
And there has to be graphic cut-scenes between missions featuring the tortures and the like.
Oh! But what would be the SuperWeapon? “Invoke Jihad”?
But that would be the whole game already…
amnistitio delenda est
apostle26 on June 25, 2007 at 12:00 PM
While I guess I get the idea, I have to ask:”Why is this ok, but one would never see a game that glorified the Crusades?” I mean, that’s what Mohammed did essentially, right? Why in the world would US marketers want to promote a game that justifies the thing about Islam that is causing the world so much trouble. Hence my point about the Crusades. We, as westerners, and mostly Christians, are rightly ashamed of the atrocities commited in the name of our faith. It seems to me that the #1 problem with the Islamic world is it’s acceptance of violence as an appropriate solution to every diagreement they have.
On Fox’s special on Islam last night, a Muslim man said(I’m paraphrasing) “we will not accept disrespect of our faith.” Well, with rational people, that might be ok. But when that same group of people thinks not only is violence an acceptable problem solver, it’s explicitly promoted by GOD, we’ve got a big problem.
So obviously it follows that we should make a video game to introduce Islamic violence to children in a palateable, normal way. Great idea!!! Anyone who thinks that we have not entered into a clash of cultures on a fundamental level is terribly ignorant. And when we have national leaders that think that these people are capable of being reasoned with…. Well, I don’t think I need to go on.
Robert Hackman on June 25, 2007 at 12:03 PM
Time to one-up them. Let’s make a ‘Charles Martel’ game, a ‘Charlemagne’ game, an ‘El Cid’ game, a ‘Richard the Lionheart’ game, etc.
PRCalDude on June 25, 2007 at 12:04 PM
I get your point but you can always play as the Romans and reverse a hundred years of Islamic imperialism. Or an Iranian teenager disillusioned with Islam could play as the Persian Empire and beat the mujhadeen all the way back to Medina.
aengus on June 25, 2007 at 12:06 PM
One up them? It’s time to turn them and their cities into radioactive slag.
Robert Hackman on June 25, 2007 at 12:06 PM
Will the game allow players to molest 8 year old girls? If it’s going to be realistic it should.
jim_in_phoenix on June 25, 2007 at 12:07 PM
It’s a shame that the one C&C game, “Generals,” that had Arab armies portrayed them as somewhat misunderstood rather than full-blown bad guys. Even the Communist Chinese weren’t completely bad in that game; just looking out for themselves in the face of the encroaching Arabs and Anglo devils… Unsurprising why “Generals” sold poorly compared to the other C&C games.
Too bad that the most vocal conservatives are too busy bitching about violence in video games rather than funding and marketing a wargame for the PC and Xbox with realistic bad guys–you’d think real conservatives would recognize there’d be a huge market for it.
ScottMcC on June 25, 2007 at 12:09 PM
Strike that. It was childish(my comment) I see that, but my point is that no one shoul feel that violence is a good way to solve matters of faith. I won’t go so far as to say video games directly control kid’s, but violence is so common in that region…. I don’t know. I just want people to realize that sharia law is a type of governing that was rejected for the barbaric, medieval joke that it is in the west during the enlightenment. I don’t want kids growing up here thinking that it is a viable alternative, just one that we don’t choose. See what I mean?
Robert Hackman on June 25, 2007 at 12:12 PM
This must be some clever psy-ops way of infecting Jihadists with video game addiction.
drewmesq on June 25, 2007 at 12:12 PM
Well, if they want realism, they’ll have to include female genital mutilation.
Vyce on June 25, 2007 at 12:14 PM
All theocracies are bad, because it gives the government unquestionable power. And I’m afraid that what this presents as a “NoblePast”.
Robert Hackman on June 25, 2007 at 12:14 PM
Never played C&C but have played several others and it wasn’t difficult to kick the crap out the protagonist in the historical replay. Waleed will lose many a battle now and his honor and bravery will be tarnished.
Dusty on June 25, 2007 at 12:16 PM
First 100 years? I was hoping for a present-day game so I could employ all the great technological advances that the Islamic world has seen since its inception.
Oh wait….
World B. Free on June 25, 2007 at 12:16 PM
Can you send a camel train to china so you can gunpowder up so you can make bombs and then strap them to people then target markets and schools incase you need just that little extra uhmph or is that idea too barbaric?
spike on June 25, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Will there be suicide bomber lessons?
ophelia on June 25, 2007 at 12:18 PM
Maybe they can start out by following Muhammad’s main capo Abu Bakr.
It should be an action-packed game – sort of a 7th century Grand Theft Auto:
The roles involved in the game include robbing caravans, seizing oases, beheading prisoners, conscripting armies through forced conversion, conducting wars of conquest and taking slaves.
forest on June 25, 2007 at 12:22 PM
Agreed.
As for C&C, I had Tiberian Sun. The cutscenes were corny as hell, but the game itself was fun. I loved the Brotherhood forces, fill a bunch of Subterranean APC with Engineers, pop up right next to construction yards and factories, steal and sell ‘em quick. BWAHAHAA!
Bad Candy on June 25, 2007 at 12:28 PM
When you advance to the Modern Age, you can build nuclear power plants (for peaceful energy production only!)
Beo on June 25, 2007 at 12:31 PM
I’m in ur base beheading ur doodz.
http://www.encyclopediadramatica.com/index.php/I_am_in_your_base_killing_your_d00ds
http://elliottback.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2006/11/in-your-base-04.jpg
Dash on June 25, 2007 at 12:32 PM
Oh, you want a good game? Sid Maier’s Alpha Centauri. That game was hella sweet! It was cool, it actually made sense in the society development.
You had to expand radically if you were the Commies early and hope you could dominate the globe, or else your inefficiency as a society would catch up with you and you would fall behind the others. Each faction had their own development quirks.
Bad Candy on June 25, 2007 at 12:34 PM
Bad Candy, The best RTS is by far Rise of Nations
aclark on June 25, 2007 at 12:39 PM
Starcraft was the best ever. Starcraft 2 will be better I’m sure.
Look at that game. Humans/Zerg/Protoss. No favorites were played there. Each side had its own shade of gray that it operated in. They do it to make the game fun and playable over and over again. I don’t think most game designers are trying to score political points by making a game – it reduces the number of people who will buy it. Thus, affect their bottom line. Now -that’s- a conservative mind set.
lorien1973 on June 25, 2007 at 12:40 PM
Fighting the ‘Roman Empire’ in 450 A.D……wow…..sorta like fighting Tele-tubies compared to snake-eaters. Put Caesar’s VI Legion in the game…..The ‘Profit’ woulda been a Roman house guest.
Limerick on June 25, 2007 at 12:41 PM
ZERG RUSH!!!!!
Heh. All I know about Starcraft.
Oh, here’s a good game too. Its for the Nintendo DS. Advance Wars: Dual Strike, its another turn based strategy. Its fun, you should try it.
Bad Candy on June 25, 2007 at 12:44 PM
If you put in a special code can you unlock Islamic Rage Boy?
DethMetalCookieMonst on June 25, 2007 at 12:50 PM
Perhaps if the game is successful they can run a patch for the game to update it for modern jihad and beheading…this should cap off the total history of the cult, I mean religion of Islam.
dlmcilvain on June 25, 2007 at 12:50 PM
“Furious the Monkey Boy”!
Beo on June 25, 2007 at 12:58 PM
I assume there are lots of side missions…like stoning your wife, kidnapping and beheading as many infidel reporters you can in 3 minutes, ect…..?
JetBoy on June 25, 2007 at 12:58 PM
The problem is if any side other than Islam wins, a special bit of code executes that causes the users Hard Drive to explode while simultaneously causing the sound card to scream “Allahu Akbar!!!” through the speakers.
Not good replay value. :(
JayHaw Phrenzie on June 25, 2007 at 1:10 PM
Truly saved the world.
The game might be real short for most of us…just die and get 72 virgins, ya know?
I’m just sayin’.
shooter on June 25, 2007 at 1:14 PM
When the patent comes due to expire on this game the new and improved version should include these guy’s. just sayin….. We played army as kids we had the green plastic GI’s I was partial to the bazooka guy myself…… Media reports indicating that many top leaders escaped before Arrowhead Ripper began appear to be mostly true. But other information suggests some AQI leaders are trapped just down the road from where I write. In addition to the seven men who were caught trying to escape while dressed as women, there is information that some AQI leaders remain trapped in a constricting cordon.
sonnyspats1 on June 25, 2007 at 1:19 PM
ScottMcC on June 25, 2007 at 12:09 PM
C&C game, “Generals,”
That game, while delightful, only has the Command and Conquer name attached. I do not consider it a part of the overall world. You know why? No Kane. C&CINO!
Krydor on June 25, 2007 at 1:29 PM
Is there a way in this game that the Romans win every time? And film the game showing how the Romans have slaughtered victoriously against the Islamic armies?
Ok. Let’s somebody re-program this game and insert a program piece where you’ll have Mohammed sightings in clouds, tree rings, on toasted bread, etc..
Kind of like “Where’s Waldo.”
Kokonut on June 25, 2007 at 1:45 PM
Alamo on June 25, 2007 at 1:57 PM
But representational images in art (computer or otherwise) are forbidden by Islam, so this game is rank blasphemy.
Unless the living figures are symbolized by abstract doo-dads, or inanimate objects.
But then having a bunch of triangles attacking circles could only be a great leap backward to the Pac-Man and Pong era.
(Which would make perfect sense for such a retrograde cult.)
Islam is lame should be the name of the game.
profitsbeard on June 25, 2007 at 2:14 PM
Romans? In the 700’s?
I think they mean Byzantines, eh?
Now to hack the game so Mo gets whacked in childhood…
mojo on June 25, 2007 at 2:16 PM
Since I’m related to John of Brienne, King of Jerusalem, I should be able to whoop you know what on this game.
papabryant on June 25, 2007 at 2:26 PM
Bumpersticker of the Day
LakeRuins on June 25, 2007 at 3:41 PM
What is the key stroke for sodomizing young male captives again?
When they say Romans, I’m guessing they mean Byzantines? The “other” Romans (Catholics) didn’t show up until 1096 and then opened a can of whoop-ass all over the Arabs and Turks.
Hening on June 25, 2007 at 3:46 PM
Any religion, particularly Islam, that uses violence to force conversion instead of letting it stand on its own mertis is inherently flawed. A pedophile for a leader? A real nutcase? hmmm….no wonder, who would want to convert?
Contrast this to true Christianity “conquers” through the two greatest of attributes: love and goodness.
ricelchew on June 25, 2007 at 3:58 PM
There were a few board games that had maps and unit types for the Crusades. Medieval II Total Warfare lets you setup some pretty good battles against Muslims.
1096 should be glorified since the West responded to four hundred years of Islamic genocide against fellow Christians. Two-thirds of Christianity was overrun by Islam. The Crusaders stopped Islamic expansion into the West and gave the Byzantines almost four hundred years before the Turks started that genocide.
Hening on June 25, 2007 at 4:11 PM
Im sure 8-bit presentation is all the developer has anyways.
aclark on June 25, 2007 at 4:13 PM
So, if the left is against video game violence but is for muslim revisionist history, where will they stand on this one?
Answer: Ignore, Ignore, Ignore!
Mephistefales on June 25, 2007 at 4:23 PM
I understand they were originally going to make it a role-playing game, but “Islamic RPG” was thought not to be a very good selling point. (At least, not in the West.)
andycanuck on June 25, 2007 at 4:44 PM
aclark-
LOL!
The Legend of Zelda, Muslim-style?
I’d say 4 bits is all they’re worth.
profitsbeard on June 25, 2007 at 5:31 PM
Why is this ok, but one would never see a game that glorified the Crusades?
Medieval Total War 2?
MarkyX on June 25, 2007 at 5:49 PM
Mo. really never existed so no problem.
mjkazee on June 25, 2007 at 7:02 PM
The actual Romans already imploded due to illegal immigration by 476.
The Byzantines use of superior technology and engineering (AND WALLS!) allowed them to survive countless invasions and sieges by islamists until 1453 – Which was when Constantinople fell due to islamist attackers getting thier hands on huge artillery that made Constantinoples walls obsolete.
Who these “Romans” are they think they defeated without loss out on the battlefield is kind of a mystery.
Resolute on June 25, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Total War and Rome: Total War are good titles as well; playing as a Catholic country in the former can be difficult when the Pope calls a crusade. Of course, my dad, bless his heart, took out the pope and installed his own. Not sure what happened after that..I can’t bring myself to try it.
I didn’t know they had turn based games on console systems…they’ve got some great turn based games on PC..Jagged Alliance 2…made in 1998 but it’s a classic; more recent is Silent Storm by Nival..Hammer and Sickle, where you are a Russian intelligence officer operating in Germany…yes, the developers are European and I don’t think it sold big but the turn based combat is superb..never cared much for Starcraft. I always enjoyed the warcraft world. More recently, I’ve been playing around with Direct Action; Dale Brown wrote the story for that one. It’s got some modern politics in it, and yes, cheesy cutscenes. Basically, a Russian oil magnate is funding terrorist strikes on his competition to drive their prices up…some of the missions have a slight 24 feel to them..some are just plain old slog it out combat. As for releases to look forward to..how about Stranglehold? Chow Yun Fat reprises his role as Inspector Tequila..coming out this August. Think Max Payne but infinitely cooler.
austinnelly on June 26, 2007 at 1:00 AM
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