As discussed previously, videogames have become a potent means of propaganda in prevalent political revelry between nations. Special Force 2, developed by Lebanese Shia Islamic political and paramilitary organization ‘Hezbollah’ might be an outcome of similar hypothesis. The new game is based on the month-long war between Hezbollah and Israel after Islamist organization kidnapped two Israeli soldiers. The game costing $10 is a pure FPS genre developed exclusively for PC platform.
Presumably, it is a sequel to ‘Special Force’ that was developed in 2003 by the same development team (Hezbollah) in which the player battles Israeli soldiers in southern Lebanon during Israel’s 1978-2000 occupation.
Simulating a 34-day conflict across Lebanese territory, the player plays as a Mujahideen, who guns down Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), captures soldiers, destroys tanks, and launches terrorist attacks using missiles, mortars aimed at Israeli towns.
As per recent speech, Hezbollah leader Sayid Hassan Nasrallah has declared that there is ‘no ceasefire’ with Israel, but only a halt of offensive operations, hence objective of developing a game based on war that broke out last year is perceivably a reminder to revive the grim war travesty that took lives of thousands of innocents.
However, videogames are a means of entertainment, but developing games like ‘Special Force’ is a sheer domestic political propaganda through simulation, which is unspeakably a blot on its escutcheon.
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Via: MSNBC
