Posted on 08/18/2007 4:38:09 PM PDT by jimboster
According to a columnist in the Chicago Sun Times, an on screen character exclaims "Praise the Lord", every time a non-believer is killed in this video game. Is this true?
Someone set us up the bomb!
Yeah, come back when your sober.
This game rocks! Convert people to Christianty, fight liberals and the UN (”Global Community”) during the Rapture.
Sorry, more of a “Resident Evil” girl.
The game rocks? I hear the game sucks !!!
We get signal!
Main screen turn on.
I have no idea, but I wouldn’t believe a Chigago Sun-Times columnist if she told me Tuesday comes after Monday.
The idea is good. The gameplay is below standard admittedly. But there is few to dislike about the original idea of the game. A group of Christians spreading the Gospel while fighting the Anti-Christ and his forces (who resemble the UN).
Uh, did you read my question?
Ping
Although I am a hardcore gamer, this title never gained my interest so I have never tried it. Although Wikipedia doesn’t directly address your specific concern, it may provide a context in which you can make a judgment for yourself:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_Behind:_Eternal_Forces
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Yes I did, but I don’t have an answer to your question right now. I played the trial version of this game a while ago, but can’t remember anything like this quote. The Chicago Sun Times journalist obviously is opposed to idea of this game, which IMO isn’t that bad.
This must be slow learners night.
It’s lame! Quake 3 is much better (especially sound effects of giblets hitting the floors).
Where can I get this game?
Is there a FULL MOON?
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A pretty significant question remains, though. How do peace and prayer go hand in hand with tanks, attack choppers and street battles? Despite what's been "reported," your Left Behind units do not easily form into some kind of roving militia intent on killing non-believers. In fact, there are no missions in the game aimed at causing a war or killing others. You train up soldiers only to defend your people when Carpathia starts sending in the big guns.
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Yes, you're offered sniper rifles, gun turrets, even tanks and helicopters. And there are points at which a gun battle is necessary to avoid a massacre. (When this happens, there's no gore. Units fall to the ground and fade away.) But if you go in guns blazing, nine times out of 10 you fail. It quickly becomes clear that the strongest weapons in your arsenal are your top-level missionaries and worship leaders. It's easier to convert a group of enemies than it is to shoot them.
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If you do particularly well at recruiting or church building in a given level, you earn special scrolls that can call forth angelic intervention in times of need. On the opposite end of the spectrum, if spirit levels in the enemy force drop low enough, little demons will appear and wreak havoc on anybody within range.
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In fact, when you stack Eternal Forces up against other RTS games, its foibles don't pull it very far down in the pack. Wired went so far as to say, "So the great surprise of Left Behind: Eternal Forces is that it actually kind of rocks." Finally, something that's not an exaggeration.
The columnist actually relied on an anti-Christian blog for his information on the game, and the information was wrong.
I can’t remember which blog had a posting about it. One guy did an email exchange with the sun-times guy who didn’t seem to care that the facts were wrong. I couldn’t find it though.
Here is a blog posting that came out after the first site came out with the smear.
http://christiancadre.blogspot.com/2006/06/truth-about-left-behind-video-game.html
I think the game kinda cheesy, but it’s obvious the breathless lefties are blinded by their hatred in this case.
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