A first-person shooter for the Islamic militant crowd is on sale at a new Hezbollah-run museum in Lebanon celebrating last year’s war with Israel, the Associated Press reports:
[A captured] Israeli-made Merkava tank features prominently in the museum. One tank seized by the guerrillas is displayed in a huge crater, surrounded by mannequins of dead Israeli soldiers.
The exhibit is not the first organized by Hezbollah, but new elements have been added this time, including replicas of sandbagged Hezbollah bunkers. One section is devoted to a new computer game, "Special Force 2: Tale of the Truthful Pledge," that allows players to shoot mock Israeli soldiers and blow up tanks. "Be one of God’s men," says the advertisement for the game, shown on Hezbollah’s Al-Manar television. The game sells for $10 at a shop at the exhibit, along with Hezbollah DVDs and key chains.
The exhibit ends with an audiovisual presentation featuring what are said to be the cries of dying and wounded Israeli soldiers, followed by Nasrallah saying: "The time of victories has started and the time for defeats is over."
"That game is Battlefield 2, only with some kind of Allah mod," notes one gamer at the Crossfire 3.0 forum. Check out an ad for the prequel:
