Inappropriate

I read in the paper the other day that Chris Rock, the American comedian and actor was giving up gigging the college circuit. He says that people are so easily offended these days that he can't tell a joke without upsetting someone. In fact they even take umbrage on the way to a punchline and he is fed up of all the flak. It's true, there seems to be militant activists for just about anything you can think of from eco-warriors to Fathers for Justice. Given this modern trend for avoiding anything controversial I was a little surprised at the content of the game I received for Christmas.

The premise is this, you play a westerner of Asian heritage who goes back to his homeland to fight for the guerrillas (terrorists) against an evil and corrupt regime; sound familiar? In order to successfully gun down those pesky government army types you need to upgrade your kit. You do this by slaughtering tigers, rhinos and other endangered species to skin and gut them. Any skins you don't use you can sell. There is a specific mission where you hunt and skin particularly rare animals for their furs and skins so a fashion designer can create his garments for a catwalk show. The designer character is absurdly camp and a typically gay stereotype, a little like an Asian Alan Carr. 

Far from being the good guys, one of the leaders of the guerrillas wants to overthrow the current leader in order to set up an international drug smuggling operation on an industrial scale. Drugs are featured all over the game and you can loot heroin wraps off the troops you kill and sell them on. I haven't come across any opium dens where you imbibe yourself as yet though.

So there you have it, a game to upset everyone. I'm not offended myself but I am slightly surprised by the risk taken by the game makers. Clearly they are not worried about having their offices firebombed by animal rights protesters or gay activists or even being censured by various governments for glorifying terrorism.  Mind you in the inappropriateness stakes this is small potatoes, for major league players just look up the Japanese cultural obsession known as 'lolicon'

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