Former terror detainee stars in Gitmo Xbox game called "Rendition: Guantanamo"
A former Guantanamo “terrorism” detainee who walked away a free man in 2005 will shoot his way out of the U.S. prison in a new Xbox 360 video game based on the camp. Moazzam Begg, who spent nearly two years in the U.S. detention camp without charges, will play himself in the game, which could rake in £3 million ($5 million).
Rendition: Guantanamo lets players control a detainee trying to shoot his way out, meaning the game's creators needed to know the layout of the prison.
Begg has been consulting on the project, under development for more than a year and already drawing fierce criticim.
"We have had a lot of hate mail about this, mainly from America, saying things like, 'Don't dare put out a game that shows them killing our soldiers," Zarrar Chishti, director of Scottish software company T-Enterprise, told the U.K.'s Daily Mail." But no U.S. or British soldiers get killed in it. The only ones being killed are mercenaries.
“We are expecting an extreme reaction to the game in the US. But we think it will sell well in the Middle East,” said Chishti.
You just gotta love the capitalist free market. Anything goes!
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4 comments:
The really sad thing about this is that people will actually buy it for their kids.
You cant have Gen-Pop and Utopia at the same time. It doesnt work like that.
Really? And I thought these fanatical terrorists' strength stems from The Lack of Free Market, Totalitarian "socialist" governements, despotism, poverty and despair, just to name a few...
I'm sure anyone involved at Guantanamo----detainees, guards, etc.---didn't feel like it was a game.
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