Controversial Games
Tutor: Caitlin, McReynolds
Name: Wyatt, Chapman
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Muslim Massacre Controversy
This game was made by Eric Vaughn also known as "Sigvatr" on the "Something Awful" forums. The game was released in 1990 and although it was out for awhile it on gained an increase in hate on September 11th 2001.
The player follows the path of an American soldier, which is dropped out of a plane equipped with a pistol. Players can find different weapons laying around on the floor though, such as: shotguns, rocket launchers, machine-guns and grenades. To advance throughout the levels, the play must kill every Muslim that comes onto the screen. Once that has been completed there will be a boss fight. Just to top it off some Muslims are dressed as normal civilians, which you still murder anyway.
This picture above is gameplay of someone attempting to defeat one of the bosses within the game. Osama Binladan.
Because of the September 11 plane crashings, people would comment about the game calling it "vile, childish, tedious and desperate to drum-up controversy." Some people even say that the game was made in order to justify a reason for murdering Muslims. Viewer comments on the web site of the Arabic television channel Al Arabiya were mixed; some condemned it, while others viewed it as a reaction to Islamist extremists.
Postal/Postal 2
Postal 2 is a game created by Running With Scissors and was released April 13th 2003. Being the sequel to the internationally controversial, Postal. The game gained publicity immediately because of it's extreme violent nature. In 2004 New Zealand banned postal 2 due to "gross, abhorrent content". On May 1st 2007 Malaysia banned the game because of the games violence and "offensive depiction of cruelty".
Plot - The player follows a character simply called "postal dude", which has red hair, wears a T-shirt with an alien's face printed on, has a trench coat and is quipped with suspicious glasses.
The player is tasked with doing several choirs throughout the week. Starting on Monday, the player can approach each task how they see fit. You could go and buy milk from the store without starting any fights, or you can go on a massacre before collecting your items on the shopping list. The game sticks by the rule of that each mission is only as violent as the player controlling it. Although the gave does advise you to use violence since every character in the game has it in for you. They will either stick their middle finger up at you for no reason, or you could be mugged and assaulted by random people on the street.
When people gave their views on the game, it was quite mixed, surprisingly, but most people went far enough to give the game a zero rating because of the violence, which the developers followed up with "that the amount of violence is up to the players—they may go about their tasks without causing trouble, or they can create mayhem.".
One of the most notifiable parts of the game is the ability to urinate on dead bodies. People stated that this was pushing the line too far, but as it so happens this can only be done if the player chooses to urinate on people or the ability to use a cat as a silencer for your weapon, clearly showing animal cruelty.
In New Zealand the game remains banned, distribution or even buying it for personal use is widely illegal and is considered a criminal offense, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a fine of $50,000. The game received additional negative publicity following the September 13, 2006, Dawson College shooting incident in Montreal. Media coverage regarding the shooter, Kimveer Gill, indicated that he played violent video games. Postal 2 was cited as one of these games, although some coverage by CTV erroneously stated that the game was only available for sale in the United Kingdom. Developer Ryan C. Gordon, who ported the game to those platforms, stated that he feels that the game holds a mirror to the worst aspects of modern society, saying in an interview that the game is a "brilliant caricature of our mangled, disconnected, fast-food society, disguised as a collection of dirty jokes and ultra-violence."
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