Anti-Defamation League Slams 'Fun" Holocaust Video Game As Horrific And Inappropriate
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[release]Anti-Defamation League Slams 'Fun" Holocaust Video Game As Horrific And Inappropriate A video game that depicts an uprising in a Nazi death camp has drawn harsh criticism from the Anti-Defamation League, which told Kotaku that the Holocaust should be off-limits for video games.
Earlier this week Sonderkommando Revolt, a video game set amidst a violent prisoner uprising at the Auschwitz death camp, came to light. The Israeli game maker told Kotaku that the game has no agenda for the game which he and a team have been working on since 2007 and is due out next month. Instead, the developer, who believes that in a past life he was imprisoned as a Jew by Nazis, calls the game "blast the Nazis fun."
But the advocacy group, founded to "stop the defamation of the Jewish people and to secure justice and fair treatment to all," says the game shouldn't be released, not even if it is meant to be played as violent revenge fantasy.
"Perhaps well intentioned in its creation, its execution and imagery are horrific and inappropriate," an Anti-Defamation League spokesperson told Kotaku. "The Holocaust should be off-limits for video games. We hope the developers will reconsider and abandon the game."
Sonderkommando Revolt is based on the real-world uprising at Auschwitz in October 1944 and built on the foundation of classic shooter Wolfenstein 3D. The actual event in Auschwitz resulted in the deaths of just three German Schutzstaffel soldiers and the murder of 451 Sonderkommandos, a "special unit" of primarily Jewish concentration camp workers who aided in the killing process during the Holocaust.
In the video game version of the uprising, the tables are clearly turned, with protagonist and actual Auschwitz prisoner Zalmen Gradowski tearing through Nazi soldiers with a wide selection of weapons.
"Graphically it'll feature many themes," write its creators, "including Crematoriums, Block 11, Gas Chambers, execution, interrogation and torture areas...most of which are ripped/based off real pic from the real site."
The Anti-Defamation League sees the game as neither harmless fun nor cathartic video game violence.
"This rudimentary video game is an offensive portrayal of the Holocaust," the spokesperson told Kotaku. "With its unnecessarily gruesome and gratuitous graphics, it is a crude effort to depict Jewish resistance during this painful period which should never be trivialized."[/release]
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Yeah killing Nazis is really anti-semitic.
Here's the game.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUcw44l9F8[/media]
[quote]"The Holocaust should be off-limits for video games. We hope the developers will reconsider and abandon the game."[/quote]
Just because of that quote I hope the developers make nine sequels
Nothing should be off-limits when it comes to art. (Yes, games = art. Get over it)
Wow I can't believe a large organization that tries to stop hate crimes is tracking a fucking doom mod.
It's just sad, I thought their main target would be people like the WBC or something.
I don't see what's wrong with it, it looks like a fun mod. I hope they'll replace that chaingun with an MG42 or an MG34 though.
[QUOTE=jjsullivan;26630343]Wow I can't believe a large organization that tries to stop hate crimes is tracking a fucking doom mod.[/QUOTE]
it's not even a doom mod, it's wolfenstein. Which in a way is even sadder.
Killin nazis? A-ok. Killin nazis in a concentration camp? Hell no!
[QUOTE=CertainDOOM;26630403]it's not even a doom mod, it's wolfenstein. Which in a way is even sadder.[/QUOTE]
I saw some complex architectural geometry(not really that complex though, some added brushes like boxes). I think their probably just using a modded version of the doom2 engine or some kind of complex raycasting engine. Still all the same, I can't believe they think this is bad in any way. In fact it's quite in a sense "patriotic" as it shows the uprising of the concentration camp prisoners.
So in a sense, it's the exact opposite of what they think it to be.
so its wrong to show the Holocaust in games but ok to show it in movies? I could see if you were a Nazi and were killing the Jews personally but its the complete opposite
[QUOTE=RR_Raptor65;26630383]I don't see what's wrong with it, it looks like a fun mod. I hope they'll replace that chaingun with an MG42 or an MG34 though.[/QUOTE]
At first I thought it was a Maxim.
ADL has been pretty dumb as of late
Given the fact that you are a victim escaping from the camp, it's not really that big a deal.
[QUOTE=imadaman;26629984]"The Holocaust should be off-limits for video games."[/QUOTE]
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"OH NO, SHOOTING NAZI'S IN A CONCENTRATION CAMP WHICH IN EFFECT WOULD FREE THE IMPRISONED RESIDENTS (which is a good thing) IN A VIDEO GAME! OH GAWD IT IS BAD! BEING MORALY RIGHT IS BAD! OH GAWD NO!"
[QUOTE=CoolKingKaso;26630188]Here's the game.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCUcw44l9F8[/media][/QUOTE]
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man I cannot wait for their reaction when school shooter north american tour 2012 is released
The Anti-Defamation league sucks.
[QUOTE=bobste;26631954]man I cannot wait for their reaction when school shooter north american tour 2012 is released[/QUOTE]
High score is currently 32.
Thanks to the media now I can play such game!
[QUOTE=Zeke129;26630340]Just because of that quote I hope the developers make nine sequels
Nothing should be off-limits when it comes to art. (Yes, games = art. Get over it)[/QUOTE]
The Holocaust is off-limits for everything except if it is to make the Nazis look bad.
[QUOTE=gsp1995;26632086]Thanks to the media now I can play such game![/QUOTE]
Ah, the Streisand effect in action.
[QUOTE=Baldr;26632151]The Holocaust is off-limits for everything except if it is to make the Nazis look bad.[/QUOTE]
But you, the player, are shooting them. Clearly then, the nazis are bad.
Who cares what they think? People aren't idiots, and being a legally omnipotent trooper of death sounds like a nice way to release some anger.
It won't bring them back anyways, so quit pissin' all over the constitution.
Damn, I was hoping you played a guard, and could kill Jewish prisoners.
This is pretty deep for a game made with Wolfenstein's engine
Well at least the intro was
Also it seems that you can't even kill the prisoners, how in ANY WAY is this anti-semitic
they should never censor art. not to mention that sound like a fun game.
they make movies about it why not videogames?
Some people just need to deal with it
Even though I don't find it offensive, I can see how it could be. You're turning a traumatic event of many a persons' lives into a videogame where you go around blowing the shit out of everyone in your path. Even if they turned it into an educational piece, I doubt that would exonerate it of being offensive. Then again- the minority (offended party) is severely outnumbered so they're just dumb to everyone else who could care less.
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