Following Night of Bush Capturing, an anti-George Bush FPS released onto Jihadist websites last month, it seems the situation in the Middle East has indirectly inspired another politically motivated game.
Last week, the New York Times reported on 'Counter Strike' (no relation), in which gamers must plant two bombs on a tanker in the strait of Hormuz, thereby rendering a key oil route to the West impassable. The NYT/Reuters piece hints that the game producers are state-funded and that the title illustrates, 'a warning by Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who said in June that oil exports in the Gulf region could be seriously endangered if the United States made a wrong move on Iran.'
Freerepublic.com has some brief quotes from the game's lead designer, Ahmadreza Nouri, who claims it's a response to Kuma Reality Games' Assault on Iran, part of a long-running episodic shooter series based around current US conflicts.
If only all diplomatic flashpoints could be handled through the medium of competing videogames, the world would seem a much safer place. North Korea Missile Command, anyone?
