Salvation Announced; Features Christ, Cloned Angels and More
Ukraine-based development studio Black Wing Foundation has announced Salvation, a Source powered third-person shooter that is in the works for PC and Xbox 360 for release next year. Featuring the most ludicrously worded press release ever, the game features genetic replicas of the Christ and the Antichrist, cloned Angels and servers linked with God. I simply quote:
Year 2026. The World government resorted to stem cells and gene engineering to stage the Judgment Day. They created genetic replications of Christ and Antichrist and destroyed them right away in the course of events to set forth severe fundamentalism on Earth, propped by the idea of communicating with God via machines as well as by the army of cloned creatures, called Angels…
Every single step of mankind is controlled by the will of a handful technocrats looking after several super-servers “linked-up to heaven”, so as to make any their decision the only and right one. The population is kept in constant stasis, technologies are forbidden, each and everyone has to “repent” once a week, putting it in a more plain text “repent” means a weekly brain-scan. For any wrong thoughts they find they may execute or send to Hell – cybernetic virtual environment system that makes a man suffer immensely. In year 2026, the dissidents, profoundly individual people across the globe set up scattered resistance teams and try to topple the regime. They wage invisible wars, but the strengths are far from being equal…
The game will let players take on the role of three characters – Narumi Amano, a genetically modified assassin; Sergei Thor, captain of east European resistance cell; and Alexander Geist, a psi-powered smuggler. Expect yourself to be saved during Q2 2009.
March 13th, 2008 at 11:45 am
This game is absurd. Can’t we make great games and leave religion out of it? Yes, I happen to be christian, however I don’t condone blaspheming any religion. After all, God does love all of us! A person’s faith is personal and should be left alone. I have friends that are wiccan, jewish, catholic and atheist. I love all of them. Religion and politics don’t mix. Neither do religion and video games. JMHO.
March 13th, 2008 at 1:45 pm
I concur!
Religion and politics are the two things you keep to yourself. I think its dumb when people put religious or political stickers on their cars. I’ve heard stories of people being knocked off the road or crashed into purposely because the person didn’t agree with their views. Think about the confederate flag still being shown in the south…
What I get from the game description reminds me of how religion was more powerful than politics back when computers didn’t exist (gasp!) Only it takes place in the future and the “religion” in the game is like a single political party; dictatorship.
The game seems to take a different approach to our dimension of Earth now;
Instead of trying to communicate with outerspace and aliens with satellites and such, they are using machines to try to communicate to heaven and whatnot.
I don’t believe religion should belong in games but I believe that everything needs to be given a chance before its dismissed.
March 14th, 2008 at 6:28 am
I think you guys are reading a bit too much into the religion aspect of this. Mr. Williamson: it’s a work of FICTION. It’s not blaspheming anything. I myself am a christian and I have no problem with a game of this kind. As far as ‘leaving religion out of games’, then we’ll have to do away with any fantasy games involving deities or clerics, games like God of War and anything that mentions a higher power anywhere. If you don’t like it, don’t play it. I don’t like the conservative BS peddled by born-again preachers, but do I protest their books? No. I just don’t read them.