Kotaku
The Christian best selling Armageddon page-turner Left Behind is getting converted to the PC. Christened Left Behind: Eternal Forces, the game will be unveiled at E3. The story involves a battle between the Tribulation Forces and the demonic Global Community Peacekeepers lead by the Antichrist. According to the game's fact sheet, players engage in "physical and spiritual warfare: using the power of prayer to strengthen your troops in combat and wield modern military weaponry throughout the game world."
Hillary Rhodes at the Associated Press's ASAP writes, "now you can market an exciting, conflict-ridden game to the Christian community, enticing them with something that, if packaged differently, might come across as potentially harmful to wholesome Christian youth. But on the other hand you have ... something that's potentially harmful to wholesome Christian youth (or any youth for that matter)."
According to Newsweek, the game is as violent as GTA, but the CEO of Left Behind Games says that's not the case. The title won't be rated any higher than a "T" for teens and feature what he describes as "Star Wars violence." Wait, back up. The name of the company is Left Behind Games? So, there's going to more? Oh. Swell.
Full Article Here [ASAP]
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