How goofy is this tale? Well, the battleground between the true believers' Tribulation Force and the Antichrist's Global Community Peacekeepers is a heathenish New York City. Your units include gospel-singing musicians, missionaries, healers, and medics. Enemy units feature college-trained secularists, devils, and foul-mouthed rock stars with their electric twangers. Stereotypes are everywhere. New Yawkers speak with such cheesy accents that they should be driving Brooklyn cabs in 1954 while chewing on unlit stogies. Similarly, the game has a 1950s-style attitude about men and women. Only males can become priestlike disciples and handyman builders, whereas only women can become nurses. Female units are actually designated as such and given ridiculous titles like "Friend Woman" and "Medic Woman," a sexual distinction that unsurprisingly isn't extended to their male counterparts...
Oh yeah, and you can play the Antichrist's side in multiplayer, despite only a Good Guy single-player mode and the righteous condemnation of the Antichrist side that soaks the game.
And it bears repeating that one of the LB authors is a former head of the John Birch Society, which is where much of the "UN's comin' for our GUNS!" nuttiness of the books(and the Rapture Happy movement) comes from.
Since we are a cunning bunch here, I propose we give our own ideas for Biblical or other religious games. These would probably be far better than the shovelware that normally consitutes religious games(going as far back as the NES or more).
I'm thinking everything from a Dynasty Warriors-type smash-em-up for Samson, to one where you can use Shiva to nuke the world.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:19 (seventeen years ago) link
LEGO OLD TESTAMENT THE VIDEO GAME
you could unlock different characters! play through exodus as king david! put methuselah's head on jezebel's body! give "samson's hair" to any character you choose! 100% completion of each chapter gets you a golden piece of the Ark!
also, rated M for Mature, based on one mission in Judges alone, and banned in the EU.
― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― whoop de doodle (kenan), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
well duh. I'm the one who started the last one
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:54 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
true, and it could have an Onan mini-game, when you control how his spreads his spooge bricklets upon the ground and/or lower back of his brother's widow
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― TOM. BOT. (trm), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:57 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 18:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Donkey Kong New York (Lee), Thursday, 30 November 2006 21:31 (seventeen years ago) link
"Taylor was a fisherman in Green Bay when the Rapture occurred. He moved to New York to become a fisher of men."
― nate patrin (natepatrin), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
on a related note, the reviews from the new Nativity Story movie are in... and they're not too good.
but they have some GREAT lines:
from here:Bottom line: While this straightforward, easily understood approach is the right way to make history accessible--we're talking to you, Sofia Coppola--"The Nativity Story" doesn't rise to anything ground-breaking, and comedic bits involving three wise men break up the level tone. Overall, the movie is just a clean re-telling of a benchmark in the endless conflict between spirituality and science, God and man.
Bonus: It's good to have a reminder that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' child wasn't the most anticipated child of all time!
yup, lots of science in Judea two millenia ago
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― grady (grady), Thursday, 30 November 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
When asked about the Arab and Muslim-sounding names, Frichner said the game does not endorse prejudice. But "Muslims are not believers in Jesus Christ" -- and thus can't be on Christ's side in the game. "That is so obvious," he said.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 14 December 2006 00:38 (seventeen years ago) link
lol
― step hen faps (Curt1s Stephens), Thursday, 14 December 2006 01:29 (seventeen years ago) link
― editio princeps (pato.g27), Thursday, 14 December 2006 04:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Used To Work At Parcelforce in Cricklewood (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― I Used To Work At Parcelforce in Cricklewood (nordicskilla), Thursday, 14 December 2006 19:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― akm (akmonday), Thursday, 14 December 2006 20:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.movievillains.com/images/vigo.jpg
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Shakey Mo Collier (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 14 December 2006 22:04 (seventeen years ago) link
It’s not more violent than the Old Testament.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:25 (seventeen years ago) link
"There is killing of course, it¹s a video game," says Troy Lyndon the head of Left Behind Games Inc. of Murrieta, Calif.
― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Monday, 18 December 2006 18:36 (seventeen years ago) link