Iranians developing game about developing nukes

Players must rescue a nuclear scientist from US clutches in new title being developed by a student organization.

While games have historically had few, if any, geopolitical implications, a number of games have added to international tensions in recent years.

In June of 2004, French developer Ubisoft ruffled North Korean feathers with the plotline of Ghost Recon 2, which featured a fictional general from the country staging an invasion of China. Then there was the announcement of China's own Anti-Japan War Online, which caused a stir for obvious reasons. And just last week the Venezuelan government expressed its outrage at Los Angeles-based Pandemic Studios' Mercenaries 2, in which the player takes on a power hungry tyrant running the country.

It appears games are once again getting caught up in an international dispute, as Reuters reports that an Iranian game under development will deal with the current nuclear stand-off from that country's point of view. It seems the Union of Islamic Student Societies is designing a PC game chronicling the exploits of the fictional Commander Bahman as he attempts to rescue a nuclear scientist from US troops. The Iranian scientist was kidnapped while on a pilgrimage to the Iraqi city of Kerbala. The game is expected to be available by March 2007.

This is not the first time Iranian-American tensions have been used as the basis for a game. Last September, Kuma Reality Games released a mission for its Kuma/War squad-based shooter that puts players in control of a Special Forces soldier infiltrating an Iranian nuclear facility and destroying its centrifuges.

The Reuters report cites the Iranian Fars News Agency as the source for its story. The original report could not be found on the English-language edition of the Fars News Agency Web site.

224 Comments

  • ng2006

    Posted Jul 22, 2007 2:09 am PT

    LOL ... This is very funny and interesting. It really make me laugh out. Finally Iranian ppl make a 3D action shooter game. Now I can be an Iranian going out and shooting around. Thank Goodness! Just tell me ... Why you ppl are busting each other's ass? It's just a game like the ones you American ppl make every month. and every year. An American guy goes out and kill ppl from other nations, aliens, animals and everyone plays it, enjoy it and no one gets angry about it.
    This game does not obviously mean that Iranian soldiers may shoot Americans where ever they find'em. LOL ... Hey ... I wish someday we could make sth like COD or MOH to play as Iran soldiers against Iraq soldiers. I'm damn tired of killing Nazi soldiers and I hope someday Iranian developers go for it. But if they want to do that they ought to do it before Iraqi devs do the same against us.

  • baron1282

    Posted Jul 20, 2007 8:32 am PT

    People seem to forget, that this is not the ONLY game you shoot at US. Troops. Does anyone recall the Battlefield 2 game? So why is this a BIG deal? If some college kids, want to develop a game for their government than fine. I mean it's not like the U.S. Army didn't do something like. :-/

  • roozbeh007

    Posted Jul 18, 2007 9:54 pm PT

    I'm glad they made it. if Americans can make fun of other nations and kill them and advertise their way of doing business, why not other countries?

  • baron1282

    Posted Jul 17, 2007 8:18 am PT

    Wow, I can't wait to play this game. :-p Ok, I just got back from Iraq, does this make me an expert on things overseas? No it does not, and I wish people would stop using their deployment to gain extra creditability. This is my View on the whole thing. Iran is dangerous to the U.S. There is no question about that, and a war with Iran would be costly in both lives and oil. To me no U.S. Soldier life is worth oil. The war in Iraq is a war that is needed, however things were messed up from the start of the war, and changes need to be made in order to get what we messed up right. The fact of the matter is, we are there, we messed it up, we need to help fix it. To leave now would mean the 3000+ lives that were laid down in support of freedom to the Iraqi's and the safety of the U.S. would be in vain. Lets face it, Israel has every right to keep its land, they took it over and kept it for 3000 years and made a nation out of it. Thats how counties get started. Should we give back the U.S. to Europe, or the Indians? I guess some retards out there would say yes, but thats just plan dumb to even think about.
    Lastly, this game. I want to play it. :-p Iran has every right to build up it's weapons, and it's energy. I don't believe we should try to regulate their progress, but it's scary to see the person that has control of the weapons. Thats the REAL problem. If someone has weapons capable of destroying thousands in one shot, and express it's intent on using it, that should scare ANYONE. This game is fair, because we do it all the time. I want to play it, and I hope it's good. In the end thats all we gamers care about right? Is the game fun, and does it play well.

  • DeathKing81

    Posted Jan 19, 2007 6:55 pm PT

    lolz iran pwns

  • araj

    Posted Jun 11, 2006 2:42 am PT

    bravo guys. i never really thought that so many gamespot users understand whats going on in this world.

  • abudjasim

    Posted Jun 10, 2006 11:13 am PT

    I forgot something. Sending an elite soldier to rescue a weapons scientist? Sounds very MGS3 doesnt it?

  • abudjasim

    Posted Jun 10, 2006 11:06 am PT

    I dont really care about the game itself. There are plenty of propaganda games anyway. The ones from the west are just a 100 times more, but thats not why I'm writing this. I wanna make something clear for the morons that want Iran to be invaded and 'liberated' (like Iraq?). You already have the Palestine-jews problem, the Syria-Lebanon issue, ofcourse the hell in Iraq (I've been there a year ago) and if you add Iran to all this then there will be a whole new world war in the most dangerous place on earth. And I forgot about Afghanistan where the Taliban and Al-Qaeda are still fighting with no sign of giving up. It doesnt matter if the Iranian people love or hate their government. Its all about the fear of a long lasting war. If the Iranians look at how Iraq got 'liberated' then I dont think they would like to give america a shot at 'liberating' Iran. Plus I dont think that they want Iran to be a terrorist-america battlefield like in Iraq. I've seen this a-hole american general in a press conference that literally invited terrorists to come to Iraq to fight it out, like it was his own damn country!! If they want to fight terrorists let them do it in the US, so other countries dont get F***ed up in the process.
    Anyway, the US will NEVER invade Iran. They know for sure that they'll lose. Not because Iran has a superiour military or anything, its because of the people. They wont allow the US to F-up their country like they did in Iraq. Not only the Iranians will stand up, think about all the shi'ite muslims in Iraq (majority), they can tolerate the US in Iraq because of Saddam, but if they attack their shi'ite neighbours then they will unleash hell on the americans in Iraq (that already have enough to deal with). I think a retired british general put it best: I think Iran can take over Basra (Iraqi shi'ite city) using nothing but 2 soundtrucks and 2 mullah's.
    Not only will a potential war last for ever and take many lives, the oil prices will sky-rocket and there will be an energy crisis in the world. Especially caus Iran said that they will destroy tankers leaving Kuweit, Iraq, Saudi-Arabia and all the other gulf states. They can too now they have the fastest underwater missile in the world. Its so fast they cant use something to stop it. So thats why I dont think the US wil ever invade Iran, its too difficult, and they couldnt even handle Iraq.

  • RazMasters

    Posted Jun 5, 2006 1:02 am PT

    pminooei, bravo! You know what's going on in the world.

  • RazMasters

    Posted Jun 4, 2006 7:11 pm PT

    Good to hear that they're making something like this. It's fair. If we can make things like "Mercenaries 3" and "SOCOM", they can make their game, too. Any American citizen who disagrees has let their so-called "patriotism" get in the way of truly believing in free speech, justice for all, and in general, fairness.

  • rezafarsad

    Posted Jun 2, 2006 7:35 am PT

    hamid24
    as i told you earlier,go read some history books first....your knowledg of the revolution is as dumb and as limited as the words people say in taxies.....the previus regim was much better than the current one ..everyone knows that...but dont you konw what they did in theire prisones???in evin???he was a dictator as well.....and who ever said people listened to mullahs for revolution???there were at least 9 diffrent alliance who led the revolution and one of them was the islamic groups

    mojahedine khalgh...,,,kominists....socials....toodeyi....melli.....you sure dont know anything about em huh???but it was the islamic alliance won at last with some political manners which we will not talk about here

    i'm not with the regim,,but at least when i say something,i know about it.....i bet you're not big enough to remember the 8 year WAR....do you remember the RED ALARMs??do you remember the bombs falling and the explosions sounds????do you remember the dead bodies ?cours not,,,cause if you do,you never ever begged US for invasion.....if you dont like your situation,do something about it yourself ,, dont wait for others to solve for you cause no one will do that.....if US or any other countries invade here,they only look for theire advantages .....

  • mohgamespot

    Posted Jun 2, 2006 7:08 am PT

    pminooei - Thanks for helping everyone realise that. Well said my friend : )

  • Snake_shayan

    Posted Jun 2, 2006 1:49 am PT

    "pminoooei" is right !!!
    thanks

  • pminooei

    Posted Jun 1, 2006 1:00 pm PT

    you guys are saying that iraninan people are forced and that they have no saying in iran. but the funny part is there is like at least 10ppl right now from iran and saying that we do what we want and no one does anything and yet you guys believe what president bush is saying. all the Nuclear crises ppl are saying wouldn't even been mentioned if the US didn't care about iran. you guys can find other country mistakes but when it comes to your own you can't do nothing. you guys talk about history of iran for the past 50 years or something and you guys don't look at your own history. your saying our govenement is forcing everything when your own government is braining washing you self. as i can remmber George Bush has a oil bussines as i can remmber as long as oil prices goes up George Bush profits from it. also George Bush is friend of the bin laden family. you guys can find sadam heussain in 6 month but it's been 5 years and you haven't find binladen. another thing is you can not compare iran with other countrys. because saddam heussain, binladen are iranian enemys them self. it's funny how you guys are talking about killing and yet there is 11thousand ppl dieing in america every year from gun crimes. you talk about democracy but yet George bush calls all his enemy terrorest and his friend allys. if russia and china didn't have the powers they have today US would call them terrorest as well. and iran already have solar, dams and wind energy they are not enough for the rate that iran is growing and needs more energy. take it from me someoen that live and born in iran. iran is not what you think it is. if your brain washed by your own media thats your fualt but don't mock another country if you don't know nothing.

  • Phylyn5151

    Posted Jun 1, 2006 12:46 pm PT

    They must have deleted my original post cause all the moderators must love halo so much. There are worse posts around here and especially on this thread. As for the person who censored me, see you in hell. original post (only censored):

    I say we nuke them and steal the game. Then we will turn it into a game where you are a Dumb green cyborg with a cybernetic woman inside his head.you could give him 5 weapons and make him jump 20 feet but not run. Then make boring enemies that laugh when you kill them. Then make a multi-player mode where you can hook up 2 nosex-boxes and fight over who has the smallest penis size.....

    Or has my Idea for halo already been taken?

  • mohgamespot

    Posted Jun 1, 2006 9:24 am PT

    Well said Bad_Ass_Dr_Funk - i like your style man - real fresh : D

  • Bad_Ass_Dr_Funk

    Posted Jun 1, 2006 6:53 am PT

    Wow, for the bunch of intellectuals that you guys are trying to come across as, you spell like a bunch of 3 year olds. There is a spell check under the submit button, people.

    And all of you ignorant morons out there talking about invading Iran, what is the current death toll in Iraq right now? No country has the right to take over a country just because it doesn't like what they are doing, believing, etc, regardless of what the monkey in the white house believes. It is pointless and insane. You get nowhere. Why do you think the price of oil is over $70 a barrel now? It's a punishment from the people we are attacking. They don't want us there. We're just to arrogant to realize it. Maybe if we backed off, left, and started to mind our own business for the first time in over a century, we wouldn't look like a bunch of baboon anus' and they would stop burning our flags, taking hostages, trying to blow us up, and flying planes into our buildings.

  • hamid24

    Posted Jun 1, 2006 1:59 am PT

    rezafarsad

    I LOLed alot! It is now obvious for me that you don't know Sh*t about what you are talking about. that's hilarious to discuss with a partial, biased and close minded person!
    28 years ago iranians really didn't know the true meaning of democracy and they even didn't realize those services that Shah provided for them and in one word they were ungrateful! those people had been stimulated by a bunch of mindless Mullahs seeking for their benefits not people's. so they revoluted and overthrew Shah but after a few years specially during War with Iraq a large percentage of those people understood that they did the wrong thing, the wrongest thing in their whole life! they regret what they have done but that changed nothing and Mullahs had and has the power in their hands and there is no internal power that can stop them!
    NOW with the current situation the people understand what Shah was offering them and they betrayed him! I really can't forget his tears when he wanted to leave iran (forever). he was the true leader who gave absolute freedom to ungrateful people and because of that they betrayed him. and now the following generations should cry for their lost FREEDOM:

    http://www.persianday.com/bezan2/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWRlc2VoLmNvbS9iL3Bob3Rvcy8wNTA2cHJvdGVzdDEuanBn

    http://www.persianday.com/bezan2/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWRlc2VoLmNvbS9iL3Bob3Rvcy8wNTA2cHJvdGVzdDIuanBn

    http://www.persianday.com/bezan2/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWRlc2VoLmNvbS9iL3Bob3Rvcy8wNTA2cHJvdGVzdDMuanBn

    http://www.persianday.com/bezan2/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWRlc2VoLmNvbS9iL3Bob3Rvcy8wNTA2cHJvdGVzdDQuanBn

    http://www.persianday.com/bezan2/index.php?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5oYWRlc2VoLmNvbS9iL3Bob3Rvcy8wNTA2cHJvdGVzdDUuanBn

    the history of that revolution can be shortened in one sentence: "welcome to the new era, Death of FREEDOM."
    and now we as the following generations should tolerate the consequences of their wrongdoings!
    it's obvious that Islamic Republic government in iran is dictator with its' psychotic president who is a threat to the humanity like Hitler!

    http://i4.tinypic.com/10xvryv.jpg

  • Snake_shayan

    Posted May 31, 2006 7:24 pm PT

    MGS9150 :
    "BTW 90% of Iranians are Shia muslims 9% are Sunni muslims and the other 1% are made up of Christians, Jews ect. If you done beleive"

    Hey We're all muslim but that's an unwanted thing !
    Here nobody believes **** , WE ARE FORCED FOR EVERYTHING THAT MAKES US DIFFERENT FROM YOU !

  • TheAtomicNun

    Posted May 31, 2006 7:23 pm PT

    I'd just like to throw this out there.

    We shoot U.S. Soldiers in a hell of a lot of games. Of the top of my head:

    GTA 3, GTA VC and GTA SA (fill up your wanted rating and the army shows up, you also have to kill soldiers in a few game critical missions)

    Half Life (those guys that come to clean up Black Mesa are U.S. Military)

    Operation Flashpoint:Red Hammer (You fight as a Soviet soldier)

    Battlefield 2 or any other 'real world' multiplayer shooter involving Americans

    Whatever is bothering people about this game is NOT that you shoot American soldiers (from the number of popular games involving it you'd think we were enamored with the idea). I don't know why exactly this game rubs people the wrong way when the others don't, but if I had to guess, it would be because while killing members of the U.S. Military in games is nothing new, this is one of the few games (the only one I know of certainly) where it seems that it was designed essentially as a forum for killing Americans because they are Americans.

    This sort of propagandistic schlock is not a new development in gaming (Anti-Japan War is a good example, as is the game Fugitive Hunter, which is essentially a shallow vessel for the endgame Osama Bin-Laden fight sequence) but it is a deplorable one, whoever it is done to or whatever their intentions. But we need to be honest with ourselves here. The killing of American soldiers in video games doesn't bother the gaming community by and large. I defy you to find me a gamer that has not played and enjoyed one of the following: Counterstrike (you can and do play as a terrorist here for God's sake, and yet we love it), Half-Life, any Battlefield game, or any GTA game after number three.

    So say you love the idea of this game, say you hate it passionately, but don't pretend it's the fact that you shoot American soldiers that makes you hate this game (those of you that love it because it lets you kill people of a certain nationality, in this case Americans, all I have to say is WTF) or that the shooting of American soldiers somehow makes it 'different'. Gordon Freeman has buried a crowbar in the brainpan of too many U.S. soldiers for that.

  • siamak_cgm

    Posted May 31, 2006 4:34 pm PT

    I fogot to tell that i'm iranian. i want to say something to peaple in other countries. please don't think iranian peaple are stupid, iranian peaple are so talented. every body know this. i think 3d artists should know habib zargarpour an iranian guy who is working in EA GAMES. and dariush derakhshani he is also in ALIAS WAVE FRONT. you should search these names in yahoo and google and also look for more name.

    also payam shohadai, one of SUPERVISOR in LUMA PICTURES. and also OWNER OF LUMA. so don't think iranian peaple are stupid. they can do games and 3d animations,ETC. but there is a lot of problem in iran.

  • Disgaeamad

    Posted May 31, 2006 4:32 pm PT

    Very strange. This could encourage a lot of misled behaviour...

  • Sn0wman_basic

    Posted May 31, 2006 2:42 pm PT

    Wow... I just can't believe the ignorance and blatant asshattery that is going on in this thread.

    Sure it's nice to play a game where you're not your own country, or the Americans. Sure it's nice to think outside of an ethnocentric mindset, but come on people this game is purely for PROPOGANDA purposes.

    The Union of Islamic Student Societies is a government ran organization, it's basically the same as when the US Army worked on a game for the PC market.

    As for the idiocy...

    MGS9150 I'm singling you out because I'm too lazy to backtrack through the BS in this thread. America like Nazi Germany? What?! But of course, how could I miss we did kill six million arabs, caused the deaths of 80 million lives and force all arabs to work in concentration camps. Or maybe we're like the Communist Mao? Killing millions of dissidents all in the name of the "people" or maybe like Stalin and killed millions in the name of the "people" as well.

    Now before you start labeling me, I was against the Iraq War, and I'm looking forward to having a diplomatic solution to the Iran crisis, but keep in mind people, the UN and the IAEA are both confirming that Iran is doing SUSPICIOUS activities in developing their nuclear energy. It makes no sense for Iran to have nuclear energy in that they are sitting in the desert! We can just as well build them a solar panel/wind energy farm that could make enough energy and won't be centralized in one location. Iran is developing nuclear energy, defying UN (That's UN not US people) orders and with the current leader of Iran calling for Israel to be wiped off the face of the earth, and denying that the HOLOCAUST actually exist and believed that the end times are near, I am damn well worried about Iran having nuclear energy. This is the same guy that was in the group responsible for the US Embassy raid during the 1970's-80's.

    Oh and Mohgamespot.

    Clearly you forget the numerous student led riots all over Iran that were "put down". Clearly you fail to see that women are being oppressed there. But oh wait, it's alright because their "religion" allows them to. So it was alright for Christians to kill millions of people because they weren't part of their religion right? It was alright for people to be burned at the stake for "practicing witchcraft" because it was part of their religion right? The Iranian government is distorting the Qu'ran for their own purposes and the Iranian people are not happy. Sure they may look happy, or you may think they're happy, it's mainly because this is the way they lived their entire life. You try talking to a North Korean, sure he may say he's happy, but bring him to South Korea and he'll show you how displeased he was living in North Korea.

    I'm not saying we should invade Iran, far from it, I'm saying that we should encourage another revolution in Iran, (not like the disastorous Bay of Pigs) but an Iranian revolution, not an Islamic revolution.

    Clearly this thread is full of the following people:

    1) Anti-Americans
    2) Anti-Western Nations
    3) Anti-Christians
    4) Anti-Bush
    5) Pro-Iran

    You can not in clear conscious support the Iranian regieme while at the same time criticizing America.

  • Azzzel

    Posted May 31, 2006 2:40 pm PT

    Seriusly thats like the dumbest game i have ever heard of i am going to buy it and put it on my hall of shame wall!

  • rezafarsad

    Posted May 31, 2006 1:53 pm PT

    hamid24

    how old are you?
    none of what you said were reasonable...fisrt,you should go read some history books to learn why there was a revolution...

    and when did i said i live under good circumstances???and i like the way my country is?

  • MGS9150

    Posted May 31, 2006 1:37 pm PT

    BTW 90% of Iranians are Shia muslims 9% are Sunni muslims and the other 1% are made up of Christians, Jews ect. If you done beleive me go to any American web site it is even confirmed there.

  • MGS9150

    Posted May 31, 2006 1:30 pm PT

    America is more like Nazi Germany than any other country it is trying to impose their way of thinking on every other country. Iran does not want a monarchy which the Americans planted nor does it want American style capitalizm.
    In the 1970's the Iranian people started the revolution and with their FULL support an Islamic Republic was made.
    Iran is in no way like America 99% of the population is Muslim so this government works great for them.
    Women in Iran have more rights now than ever, before theyu couldnt leave the house without a husband, now they have every right anyone else has and the only thing you see in your eyes is the scarf its part of their religion and if you done like it your a racist. More Iranian women are educated then men so dont even say they cant go to school and have jobs.
    Iran NEVER said it wanted to blow up israel it was misinterprated they said literally they want it wiped off the map as in changed back to palestein not destroyed.

    Dont listen to any Iranians that dont like the government they are mostly Loyalists to the Shah and left the country during the revolution. None of you has the right to tell any Iranian they can have nuclear power if Iran cant have nuclear power than America cant have nuclear power.

    And also America can never attack Iran and win, nuking Iran harms America and Iran has 11 million soliders compare that to Americals 2 million in a full our war Iran would win by numbers alone, taking into consideration 500,000 American troops are fighting in different fronts and you cant send your whole Army to another countruy.

    And Hamid24 if Iranians didnt like Iran they would have all leave just like you did I bet anything your daddy was kicked out of Iran because he was working for the Shah. If only you knew what the Shah did to your own people he bombed them during the revolution and gave all the resourses to America.
    My best bet is you are a kid age 13-16 whom knows only what his Iran hating parents told him about his country. If only you lived there now you would know how great it is. I just came back from a trip to Iran and things there are better than ever.

  • mohgamespot

    Posted May 31, 2006 12:39 pm PT

    well said thisissami : )

  • mohgamespot

    Posted May 31, 2006 12:35 pm PT

    hamid24

    You must be really naive to believe the so called 'situation' in Iran will improve if the US military is involved - do you really think the US will simply enter, pull the carpet from the current leaders and place it below another set of leaders before leaving? They will stick to the land like a leech, sucking it until its oil reserves are dry before even contemplating leaving the country.

    Secondly, the Shah was illegitamate as you well know. He was placed there by the previous US administrations with involement from the CIA. There is no royalty or allegiance due in that direction. If the Shah was a good leader then the entire population would not have revolted against his rule. They were oppressed and revolutionists were tortured for their ideas of having new rulers. You cannot 'betray' an illegitamate ruler. More to the point a ruler that does not have the support of his people and who instead work against him cannot be a ruler - instead he is a dictator (just as the Shah was). If you have seen the footage from when the Imam Khomeini
    returned from exhile you'll know the people saw him as a proper ruler, as they welcomed him back in their milions.

    Lastly, the majority of people in Iran will tell you they are Muslim if you ask them - they take part in the religious activities of their free will when they could have just stayed at home and they take part in the rallies in support of their country's activites. This may just indicate that the majority are Muslims and support their leaders don't you think?

  • hamid24

    Posted May 31, 2006 11:57 am PT

    rezafarsad:
    "im so sorry for both these kind of poor games made in my country for political resons only,and seeing my countrymates thinking soooo childish ......all of ya.....you like US to invade your country???where you've born and grown??where your family lives in????do you know what WAR is???or you think its like games???PEOPLE DIE IN WARS....and they can be your father and mother........you like that???

    im sorry for my country...for having such peoples...you must build your country ...not wishing for its destruction...."

    1- if US invade iran be sure that the situation will become alot better after a short while! I dunno why a few iranians want to pretend that they live under good circumstances.
    2- those people who betray the following generations by overthrow Shah are sentenced to death! they establish a government that defraud their descendants. they establish the wrong goverment in the wrong place.
    3- there are many people die during wars but eventually there will be peace and everything become better. a few innocent civilian will be victimized to bring peace! what's wrong with that?!
    4- Life is a Game! so everything in the real life is a game and we are the characters. so try to be logical cuz there is no save/load in this Reality Game!

    mohgamespot:
    "If anyone says that around 99% of Iran isn't Muslim they have some serious misinformation issues. I've been there and i know."

    If you have been there for once, I was born and lived there (here), so don't try to say these BS when U know nothing at all!
    there are many muslims in iran, but they are not the majority.

  • faridmon

    Posted May 31, 2006 10:47 am PT

    first: come on guys this is gamespot not CNN forums or something, what the hell is going an? most of u guys are ignorant, u know nothing about politetion, politition is very complex, and say bush is right or iran is capitalizm, thats just plain stupid, by the way do u think that CNN is telling the truth stating that Iran have nucler Bomb, its just Nucler energy, thats like carbon and electric nothing else, and its really refreshing to see any game from another respective, and see how this game will satnd out aginst Half-Life 2 or Prey.
    majoraty of U guys are dum.

  • mohgamespot

    Posted May 31, 2006 10:32 am PT

    Finally - as someone that has visited Iran numerous times and has seen how peaceful the people there are, it is painful to see the amount of abuse they are attracting from people that are misinformed or brainwashed by their own country's propaganda. The US alone has put aside around $60 million dollars towards media that is anti-Iranian in order to try sway the public. This is evidently paying off for them just by looking at this blog...

    There are a lot of bitter people that left Iran when the Iranians overthrew the Shah (king) because they knew they would not be able to take advantage of the people anymore (or have favour from the Shah). The Iranians democratically voted for an Islamic Republic and this was voted for by the Christians and Jews actaully living in Iran (i've seen the voting footage from the time). If anyone says that around 99% of Iran isn't Muslim they have some serious misinformation issues. I've been there and i know.

    The Iranians love gaming just as much as we do in the west and they actually have these cool LAN party houses in the capital where you can pay hourly to go in with your friends on some fairly good PCs (numbering around 40 PCs per house) and play Counter-Strike or other strategy games (i actually tried this with some people over there and it was amazing to be head shot repetively by the elite players. My only defence is tht it was my first time on CS : P)

    *looks around as someone coughs -*NEWBIE*- *

  • rezafarsad

    Posted May 31, 2006 10:28 am PT

    im so sorry for both these kind of poor games made in my country for political resons only,and seeing my countrymates thinking soooo childish ......all of ya.....you like US to invade your country???where you've born and grown??where your family lives in????do you know what WAR is???or you think its like games???PEOPLE DIE IN WARS....and they can be your father and mother........you like that???

    im sorry for my country...for having such peoples...you must build your country ...not wishing for its destruction.....

  • hamid24

    Posted May 31, 2006 10:20 am PT

    do you think that all of Iranians or almost all of them are muslim? if yes, I should say that you are wrong. there are many people in iran that really don't have faith in islam, but they pretend to have! because the government want it in that way.

    Hejab Force in Iran:

    http://suprfile.com/src/1/toshl3/02.jpg

    http://suprfile.com/src/1/tpchxk/04.jpg

    Democracy? WTF?
    now the minority govern the majority in iran! and of course the majority of iranians aren't Muslim! they just have to pretend to be muslim!

  • mohgamespot

    Posted May 31, 2006 10:05 am PT

    GKBeetle said:
    'Whoa. Hold on there. The people who are living in Israel right now have been living there for over 55 years, since 1948. Before them, it was controlled by the British, the Ottoman, Mamluk, Crusaders, Arab, Byzantine, Roman, Hellenistic, Persian and Babylonian empires, going back to 587 BC. Before then, the land of Israel was ruled by a series of kings going back to around 1300 BC. During this entire time, Jews have had a continuous, if not ruling, presence in Israel. That's over 3000 years of Jews being in Israel. How far do we need to go back? Are we supposed to give North and South America back to the Native American Nations or give France back to the Celts? And where exactly do you put all the people that are in Israel right now if you give the country back to someone? Do you just let them be slaughtered by the Arab nations who hate them so much for being there. Saying that you think that Israel should be given back to the people who were there first just goes to show how ignorant you are.'

    IF you use your head you'll realise that there were people already living in Palestine (as it should rightly be called) before the Jews even got there with Moses, and it even says this in their religious texts that there were peopel alrady living there (the Jews were reluctant to enter the land on Moses' command because there was already another people there). THESE PREVIOUS PEOPLE WERE THE PALESTINIANS. So it means its actually the ARABS' land as they accepted Arabs as their marrage partners and family etc. True - there were different rulers up until now but the original Palestininans with arab family links were always living there throughout the successive reigns by different rulers. This logically means the land belongs to the descendents of those original Palestninans (the oppessed Palestinian people).

    Either -*you*- were ignorant GKBeetle or you purposefully intended to mislead people by leaving this out of what you said.

  • mohgamespot

    Posted May 31, 2006 9:37 am PT

    Some guy said:

    "Neo-Nazi strongman who is actively persecuting religious and ethnic minorities in a manner similarto Adolf Hitler's early years (forcing them to wear patches and such)."

    Are you nuts? Wheres your proof fool? An Austrailian newspaper published tht claim about badges and then retracted it with an apology to the Iranian Government when they realised it was untrue. I've been there recently and seen the minoritites DO NOT have to wear any such derisive badges etc. The women only wear a head scarf covering their hair to respect the Islamic religion and majority of Muslims living there.

  • LordAndrew

    Posted May 31, 2006 9:19 am PT

    All I have to say is that this sounds awesome. XD

    And I hope it gets released in North America.

  • sasuke55

    Posted May 31, 2006 9:07 am PT

    wow that is interesting....... lets see what develops

  • thisissami

    Posted May 31, 2006 9:05 am PT

    wow some of you users are really ignorant....

    first of all, i'm a palestinian, and i'd like to thank the majority of the users here who are actually for this idea and like the change from the usual, but can the others please stop thrashing iranians? so what if the government isn't as democratic as it should be (in your eyes)? that doesn't mean that america should rule the world like a lot of you are saying... and it definitely shouldn't have the right to have it's own nuclear weapons and plants and not allow any other country to even build it's own nuclear power plants to have cheap electricity for the country... america is assuming iran will build nuclear bombs...sounds familiar? WMDs? Iraq? 4 days ago bush and blair actually admitted that they were wrong about that (article somewhere on CNN)...

    siamak_cgm could be right in that this is using some other program, and isn't actually being created by an original engine/coding, but so what? 2 things... videogames are VERY VERY big in the middle east. At least where people can afford it... the bedouin areas and other areas where the people are very poor and have to work for the majority of their days, they do not have videogames... however, videogames are played almost everywhere else, except unfortunately for developers games are always borrowed between friends, AKA only one buys it (sometimes not even an original version) and they all interchange...

    another thing...you guys have to realize that despite what you may think, arabs are very skilled artists and programmers... countless of computer related patents are held by arabs... one thing which could be seen as either incredible or horrible is that P2P, mIRC, BitTORRENT etc. (i'm personally against those to a certain extent) were all created by arabs (mIRC by a palestinian who dropped out of MIT i think, not sure where he studied/dropped out of). In terms of science/engineering/mathematics, arabs actually "invented" algebra and basic calculus back in the 600s, and were the main contributors to the geometry created by the greeks. Also, the head of the Aegix physics engine (as well as the head programmer for the engine), which most PS3, X360, and next-gen PC games use/will use, is also an arab (he may be Pakistani or Indian, but i'm pretty sure he's an arab). so, not only is this one game created by arabs, but the thing that makes the majority of the next-gen (and current gen) games all of you play look good is created by arabs...you should be happy we create engines, not go ahead and promote foreigners taking us over...

  • hamid24

    Posted May 31, 2006 7:57 am PT

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  • Snake_shayan

    Posted May 31, 2006 7:44 am PT

    I agree with siamak ...

  • siamak_cgm

    Posted May 31, 2006 7:33 am PT

    hi peaple. this is an iranian guy i want to say we have alot of good artist and game programmer one of them which is a game programmer is my friend and he is working on his angine which has all next gen features, i want to say don't beleive this game , this is S_H_I_T as i know what is going on. completely bullS_H_I_T, these peaple just want to get some money if you see screen shot's you will understand, they didn't write any engine for this game
    they used one of those game makers software like fps creator, quest 3d,...
    . and also this game has political purposes. so just don't buy it .
    i was in iran before and now i'm not there and i'm happy.

  • Bad_Ass_Dr_Funk

    Posted May 31, 2006 7:13 am PT

    People, people, people... We're forgetting the most important thing regarding foreign relations under the Bush administration. We (the US and it's allies (boot licking toady Tony Blair)) are the only ones that should have the power and ability to blow up the world. How dare these people that don't look like us develop cheap elctricity for their country, and then have the audacity to make us look bad because we forbid them from doing it. Don't they realize we are the rulers of the planet, and everyone else should cower and kneel before us? Well I for one am taking a stand against them. I am going to cancel my upcoming vacation to Iran and will never again buy an antique Iranian rug, the only iranian commodity allowed into the country legally.

  • GKBeetle

    Posted May 31, 2006 6:41 am PT

    "Deval
    Isn't it Saudi Arabia that has all of these regimes, forced religious ideas and terrorist cells coming out of their arse? I'm probably wrong as I don't pretend to know anything about the current politics of Iran or any other part of the Middle East, except I think Israel should be given back to the people who were there first (gonna get flamed for having an opinion, sorry facist Americans...)"

    Whoa. Hold on there. The people who are living in Israel right now have been living there for over 55 years, since 1948. Before them, it was controlled by the British, the Ottoman, Mamluk, Crusaders, Arab, Byzantine, Roman, Hellenistic, Persian and Babylonian empires, going back to 587 BC. Before then, the land of Israel was ruled by a series of kings going back to around 1300 BC. During this entire time, Jews have had a continuous, if not ruling, presence in Israel. That's over 3000 years of Jews being in Israel. How far do we need to go back? Are we supposed to give North and South America back to the Native American Nations or give France back to the Celts? And where exactly do you put all the people that are in Israel right now if you give the country back to someone? Do you just let them be slaughtered by the Arab nations who hate them so much for being there. Saying that you think that Israel should be given back to the people who were there first just goes to show how ignorant you are.

  • chrisdojo

    Posted May 31, 2006 6:22 am PT

    dumb.

  • metdevthegamer

    Posted May 31, 2006 6:08 am PT

    All is fair in love and war.

  • spidey008

    Posted May 31, 2006 6:00 am PT

    It's just a game people.

  • GKBeetle

    Posted May 31, 2006 5:54 am PT

    There is one thing this article does not say. Is the Union of Islamic Student Societies a group of students living in the U.S. or are they living in Iran. I seriously doubt that the people living in Iran spend too much time worrying about video games, much less actually making them.

    If they are a group that lives in the U.S., I think that's pretty messed up and hypocritical. People from all over the world come here to study because we have the best schools in the world, but some of those same people hate America. If they hate America so much, they should go to a place other than America to study. They want to take advantage of the good things that America has while saying that America is evil. The things that they don't like about America are the same things that make it a good place to come and learn. They don't like that we have free speech, but that is one of the things that makes our schools so good. Our schools have the freedom to teach what they want and are not going to be censored by the government. Oh well, I guess they are at least spending money while they are over here.

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