A new game was released yesterday on Steam depicting Russia's invasion of Ukraine, claiming to be "officially recommended by the Russian Military".

Libs are angry maddened about it, as expected.

When you point out that this is no different from all those US military propaganda games, they are quick to bring up that this is uniquely evil because it covers a currently active war. As if there weren’t a bajillion military games set in the Middle East during the “War on Terror”. picard

They truly have a selective memory.

    • MarmiteLover123 [comrade/them, any]English
      45•1 month ago

      You also assassinate Qassem Soleimani in the first mission of the game I think? Because he worked with ISIS and the Mexican cartels (in the game, obviously not in real life). Being a while since I played the games, especially the newer ones I’ve played very little of, so it could be from a different call of duty game.

      Just looked it up, in the first mission of the sequel, Call of Duty Modern Warfare II 2022, you guide the missile to assassinate Soleimani during an arms deal between Iran and Russia, but Soleimani is called “Ghorbrani” in the game, and the assassination takes place in a fictional country, not Iran or Russia.

      • HumanBehaviorByBjork [any, undecided]English
        32•1 month ago

        literally soul-killing to be working on that game and able to see the specific events and movies and state department narratives that every single level was cribbing from and not be able to say anything because no one fucking cares. Like having the CIA protagonist allying with a group that’s clearly a stand in for the PKK but also a level where the plot twist villain turns into Assad by Gassing His Own People and the fact that battle royale map was explicitly (as in that was its dev name and the layout is the same) based on Donetsk well before the Russian invasion like why did that not raise any alarms??