Friday, October 14, 2005

This game sounds awesome!

By way of BoingBoing, I came across this new report on Miami attorney and rabid anti-videogame activist Jack Thompson. To prove how violent video games are, he's proposed his own ultra-violent video game, and is offering $10,000 to charity if any videogame company makes it, to prove his point (huh??? Isn't that a little like Nancy Reagan snorting coke on TV to show how bad it is?).

Anyway, the kicker is that it's so over the top, it seems hilareously bad...Where do I sign up? Here's a snip:
Osaki Kim (O.K.) exits the courtroom swearing revenge upon the video game industry whom he is convinced contributed to his son's murder. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay" he says. And boy, is O.K. not kidding.

O.K. is provided in his virtual reality playpen a panoply of weapons: machetes, Uzis, revolvers, shotguns, sniper rifles, Molotov cocktails, you name it. Even baseball bats. Especially baseball bats.

O.K. first hops a plane from LAX to New York to reach the Long Island home of the CEO of the company (Take This) that made the murder simulator on which his son's killer trained. O.K. gets "justice" by taking out this female CEO, whose name is Paula Eibel, along with her husband and kids. "An eye for an eye," says O.K., as he urinates onto the severed brain stems of the Eibel family victims, just as you do on the decapitated cops in the real video game Postal2.
Attorney Proposes Violent Game

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