New Christian Game Focuses On Violence-Free Armageddon
Even after the debacle that was Left Behind: Tribulation Force, it appears that Christian game developers aren’t quite ready to throw in the towel and leave the gaming industry behind. A new Christian-themed game has appeared on the horizon, this time with an emphasis on stealth/action gameplay that happens to be free of violence.
The game, Tribulation Knights, follows the theme of people dealing with a futuristic world that has undergone the Biblical Rapture. However, instead of focusing on messages of intolerance, violence, and fear-mongering, the upcoming title will instead focus on saving people from the devil’s clutches via stealth missions that are anything but violent:
The main character, whose name has not been released yet, is a recently trained agent of the life saving organization known only as the Tribulation Knights™.
A “Tribulation Knight” is an agent of an association created by a now destroyed collection of Christian churches. Their mission is to insure the freedom and safety of the last Christians left on the planet during the Tribulation.
These citizens converted to Christianity when their family and friends left the planet in the great rapture. Seeing the error of their ways, they received Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord, therefore becoming the last Christians on the planet. This period after the rapture known as the Tribulation will be a time where these new Christians worldwide will experience persecution for their faith.
A worldwide cult has gained control of the planet and is planning to incarcerate all Christians who do not join them. The Tribulation Knights™ aim is to prevent that. The Tribulation Knight’s missions range from gathering intelligence to releasing fellow operatives from interrogation cells, to saving groups of incarcerated citizens from the clutches of the powerful Enforcers.
All without violence.
Tribulation Knights is one of those games to keep an eye on: while its graphics definitely look a bit dated, it strikes me as a title which is designed with nothing but good intentions behind it. Looking at the concept art, one can’t help but grin a little at the playful nature contained in its aesthetic style. Granted, I’m not ready to sing the game’s praises yet, but I already like it more than that godawful Left Behind one.
The Tribulation Knights [game page]
[via WomenGamers]
Boy of Tomorrow
Posted to Video Games on 2 January 2007
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The way to hell is paved with good intentions, son. You’d better remember that.
I wrote about TF around the time it first came out and I wasn’t impressed. It’s release seemed a tad pretentious, especially about the whole “Christian gaming” angle they were slinging.
A few days after it was released, I went to my contact at my local game shop and asked if they even got the game. He looked at me weird, as if I didn’t know what the game was, then after I told him about it, he remembered and went to the the back. They got in ONE copy and It wasn’t bought or even asked for. There was a bit of dust lying on the box.
Now, I’m not saying it wasn’t a good game, because I haven’t played it, so my opinion would be half-assed (plus this is only one shop out of thousands), however I don’t believe there is a market for it as much as the company hoped for. As for TK, I don’t think it will do well either, but I’ll see how many copies my shop gets.
The road to hell is not paved with good intentions. That’s an ignorant, useless one-liner. Nobody here’s your son, either, Gramps.
Still goes into the pile of “people looking forward to the end of the world,” which I find disturbing, non-violent or not.
Paul, while I understand where you’re coming from, people are always looking forward to the end of the world. This is primarily because almost every culture has their own Armageddon mythos (the Norse had Ragnarok, Hindus have Kali Yuga, Christians have Armageddon, etc). Hell, people were proclaiming the world was going to end around 1000 years ago in Rome. It seems weird to people who aren’t religious (something which is a fairly recent development in societal terms), but to anyone who’s remotely devoted to a specific faith… well, it’s something they end up thinking about at some point.
the only disturbing thing is that it’s not a game but yet another tool of christian propaganda.
from this point of view, gramps did say something.
Yeah, I actually kinda wish all faith-based games were like LB:TF simply because it was so offensive and awful. Just like I wish all Christian rock sounded like Stryper because NO ONE listened to Stryper unless their pod-people parents made them. But then came stuff like Jars of Clay that even my partner will unwittingly listen to now and then, which sets my teeth on edge.
If LB:TF is Stryper, games like this will be Jars of Clay. The ones that come in the future will just be a little more subtle about it.
At least it’s more Christian than the Left Behind game. I’ll give them that.
I don’t mean when they plan for it like a disaster… I mean when they look at it as a positive event, as something to work towards. That’s when I worry.
Yawn…...let’s have an historically accurate ‘Christian’ game “Matthew Hopkins Witchfinder General” you get to rape, pillage, torture, steal, abuse power, kill thousands upon thousands, hatred and intolerance for others that’d be a big seller!
lol. it’s such a rediculous idea to insert religion (especially Christianity) as a prominent component of a game. what a failure.