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Jack Wright & Alan Selby

Sick video game lets fans play as Christchurch mosque massacre gunman who killed 51

A sick video game lets players choose characters resembling real-life monsters including Christchurch gunman Brenton Tarrant for missions to slaughter gay and minority people.

Depraved fans pay £12 to download the shoot ’em up, which features a killer based on the Australian accused of the March mosques atrocity in New Zealand.

Jesus Strikes Back: Judgement Day was released before the Christchurch rampage, in which 51 died – but an update introduced a character known as Brent T, an Australian who looks a dead ringer for Tarrant.

The vile game also lets warped fans play as fascist dictators Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini.

And they can pose as a Donald Trump character who dangles a transgender woman off a roof – and kill mixed-race former US President Barack Obama.

In another scene, a lookalike of Russian leader Vladimir Putin beats a feminist with a sign.

It is understood nearly a thousand copies have been sold since its release in February.

The game been savaged by the LGBTQ community but has attracted twisted gamers who describe it as a “wholesome game” about “fighting degeneracy”.

Chillingly, one forum post said “hopefully the next version is a IRL [in real life] version”.

Developers say the game is satire but it has sparked outrage – and nearly 4,000 have signed a petition on Change.org calling for it to be banned.

One gamer said: “It’s disgusting someone would make a game about mass-murdering minorities and then make money from it.

"I’m sure the public would be interested to know someone is profiting from something as gross as this.”

Another protester said: “I don’t understand people who think and see the world like this.

"It must be such a sad existence, so afraid of ‘different’ that you feel the need to marginalise, hate and threaten violence against others.

“The last thing we need is a game like this. This diseased thought has been spread more than enough already.”

And a gamer added: “This is advocating murder of people whose lifestyles bigots can’t accept, via a supposedly benign, silly game.

"Too many bigots take pretend to a reality level.”

The game’s developer defended the content, claiming it is a “parody satirising modern political culture”.

They said: “This video game makes no comments whatsoever on political affairs, race, religion, sexuality, gender or real-world individuals or organisations at any time during gameplay.”

Tarrant has been charged with murder over Christchurch and is on remand.

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