[DailyMail] A blood-thirsty new video game that encourages players to take part in a school shooting has triggered outrage online.Oh, goody. A game to simulate (and stimulate) a plague that's an imitation of games simulating (and stimulating) a plague...
The upcoming game, Active Shooter, lets players choose between taking on the role of a SWAT team member trying to stop an ongoing school shooting — or the role of the shooter themselves.
Those who play as the shooter will be shown a tally of the number of civilians and police officers they have managed to kill during their simulated shooting spree.
Anti-gun violence charity Infer Trust has described the game as 'horrendous' and in 'bad taste' given the recent mass shootings in the US.
Doh. That was the whole idea.
Last year a young fella created an Arma 3 scenario, posted in Steam, that sought to simulate the shooting in Las Vegas. No other purpose than to draw attention to the creator.
Steam took it down three weeks later.
The scenario wasn't particularly accurate, nor was it, so I heard, particularly, good.
Seven years ago a young man put together a mod for Arma 3 that included ISIS forces. The same hysterics on display for this game was on display for this mod.
Poor kid. Since he was from Europe, "f*ck 'em all" apparently wasn't in his lexicon. That said, the mod happily exists to this day.
Sometimes the crazy mobs can be thwarted.