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(More customer reviews)I would like to appologize on behalf of the Christian and Gamer community for this pitiful excuse for a game. I'm sorry if that sounds harsh, but that was actually the nicest wording I could muster. My husband is a game developer, and I happen to enjoy console and PC games immensely. We both also consider Jesus to be our Lord, Savior, and friend. So naturally, we were curious over the idea of merging spiritual concepts and Biblical principles with gaming enjoyment.
The opening video gave us some hope that this apparent stategy-based game could show promise. That hope was, I'm sad to say, repeatedly bludgeoned to death before being dragged through poorly defined and highly pixilated streets. But nevermind the graphics. Our biggest issue with the game was its content, which came off rather immediently as judgemental, legalistic, abrasive, condemning, and last but not least...hokey. Go find eight friends to invite to church? Come on now, people. Kids listening to generic rock music bring down your 'spirit' to the point of character apathy? I guess in that case, my husband and I would be considered the 'bad guys' in this particularly narrow and sheltered version of reality.
Bad joke or no, the only effect we could imagine a game like this having on someone who doesn't have some vaguely accurate concept of Christianity would be to further aggrivate the intollerant and unrelatable stereotype, whilst generating further repulsion and misunderstanding. If I happened to be someone on a mission to make Christianity and even the Left Behind series look pathetic, this would be one of the first pieces of media in my arsenal. As my mission is something quite the opposite, I ask that if you havn't played this game, please don't bother. And if you have, please see it as a parody and find it in your heart to forgive.
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