Poignant, Brutal Flash Game
Most flash games are quirky fun for a few minutes, some are more seriously addicting. Often flash games have some kind of political spin, but rarely do they make an emotional impact. Newsgames has scored that achievement with September 12th, a flash-based simulation that has you deciding whether or not to use violence to kill terrorists, then witnessing the consequences of your decisions. Their introduction:
This is not a game.
You can’t win
and you can’t lose.
This is a simulation.
It has no ending.
It has already begun.
The rules are deadly simple.
You can shoot.
Or not.
This is a simple model
you can use
to explore
some aspects of
the war on terror.
Try it out. It’s not a doctoral dissertation on the vagaries of modern warfare, but it’s a brutal, if simple, lesson.
Play September 12th [Newsgaming.com]
tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 6 November 2006
· Comments (10)
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Damn… that Flash game is something. For a minute I didn’t understand, but it dawned on me after I shot a few times. Real kick in the teeth.
-The Panda
I admit it took me a few missiles to figure out the point to the game. While it is a well designed game, the sad thing is that it takes devices such as this to teach that lesson, and yet, I’d wager some people still won’t get it.
That’s what i call a realistic war simulation – anyone forwarded that to Mr Bush, Blair and the others who refuse to use their brains?
This game is great, because it makes you think and has some unpleasent truths to any war. Bravo.
Bleah, that’s not a flash game, that’s a shockwave game. No workie.
Also appears to crash my FireFox V1.5.0.7
Sweet Jebus! It’s addictive, ive. Addicting is a verb, addictive is an adjective. How about you pay me as your copy-editor and I stop wasting my time commenting.
@Steven: Yes, it is a verb, specifically a present participle, which can be used as an adjective. Games can be addicting just like unnecessary comments can be annoying.
Oh snap! :-)
Love,
a fellow grammar nerd
I like my adjective to be adjectives. Games can be addicting, but only in a perpetually present tense, which frightens me.
♥ grammar ♥
@Steven, I can’t believe you’re grousing over the minutia of word usage. Addicting is perfectly allowable in this sentence. Get over your anal self and go read a dictionary or something.