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State of Emergency - Anti-Globalization video game released today (english)

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Tuesday February 19, 2002 06:28author by anon Report this post to the editors

Rockstar Games State of Emergency hits the shelves today. This game is highly rumored to be based on the WTO protests in Seattle.

Rockstar Games State of Emergency hits the shelves today. This game is highly rumored to be based on the WTO protests in Seattle. The bad news is that it is a game based on using violence to overthrow the corporation that has taken over the government. The good news is that the first website about the game appears to be rather informative about the global justice movement.

http://www.american-trade.org/

Perhaps this game will become an excellent recruitment tool for the World Bank protests this spring. Hopefully, everyone will get the violence out of their system playing the game.

This game sparked quite a debate on Indymedia when it was first reported a few months ago:

http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=43789

Related Link: http://www.american-trade.org/
author by Company Astro-Turfer - Some Dumb Ass Companypublication date Tue Feb 19, 2002 23:30author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Hey indymedia kidz!,
wassup?! there's a kool new game out about The Movement! It's neat! Ha ha! Lots of rioting, lots of violence!

What? What do you mean does it show police forces attacking protestors, or does it show the use of violence by the State to keep poor people physically restrained? I thought all you young people would find this really energising and informative. What? Why should it show the sales of arms to the Third World by "anti-terrorist" peacemakers like Blair and Bush?

Look, there was LOTS of violence. Yeah, real violence, people breaking shop windows! No, I don't make a distinction between breaking someone's face and breaking a window.

Just buy the effing game and shut up.

author by ciarapublication date Tue Feb 19, 2002 17:59author address author phone Report this post to the editors

This is the image we are teaching our youths of protestors? For shame... Check out a review of the game:
"Let me recap the first thirty
seconds I spent playing State of
Emergency: The game opens on
an impressive looking city street,
filled with looters, rioters, and the
occasional ATO (WTO) goon squad. The
first thing I did was rip a park
bench off the ground and throw it
through a store window. Then I noticed the hatchet on the
ground and picked it up. I decided to join the anarchy so I
attacked the first ATO agent that I saw. One swipe of the
hatchet his arm went flying off. I proceeded to pick up his
severed arm and beat him with it until the SWAT team showed
up and tried to lay a beat down with their clubs. Fortunately, I
dodged to the side, picked up a flame-thrower lying conveniently
near by, and torched the entire SWAT team. Still feeling
destructive, I picked up a machine gun that a yelling, burning
swat member had dropped, and I began unloading the clip
indiscriminately into the rioting crowd. I was, of course,
incredibly impressed. I mean, damn, that’s a lot of violence to
squeeze into thirty seconds.
Wow. so much for non-violent direct action.

 
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