"No one shoots anyone in Food Force. Rebels are negotiated with, not blown away, and the women are sensibly dressed aid professionals - although one character does greatly resemble Lara Croft in Tomb Raider. Yet Food Force has quickly become the second most downloaded free Internet game, after the Army's recruiting tool, America's Army.
"More than three million people have downloaded it so far (at http://www.food-force.com/, for both Macs and Windows) - and it is only now being translated into languages other than English and Japanese.
"Food Force has also attracted an unlikely partner in the N.F.L. Players Association, which promises a trip to the Super Bowl for the child with the highest score.
"The game is this: the fictional Indian Ocean island of Sheylan has been ravaged by drought and civil war; millions of people need food. The player joins a World Food Program team and must airdrop food from a C-130 Hercules; pilot a surveillance chopper; navigate a supply truck through land mines and guerrilla checkpoints; coordinate shipping and prices for rice, beans and oil on the world market; design a nutritionally balanced food package for the hungry; and use food to help rebuild a community."
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2 comments:
While I enjoy virtually blowing the hell out of, well, next to everything (but especially Nazis), this game acutally sounds kinda cool. And of course, it appeals to my lefty sensibilities. I look forward to the irony of "Christians" bashing its "socialist" and "terrorist" undertones. I mean after all, apparently you negotiate with people instead of torturing them-- what's that all about? I think I'll download it now.
But when will the good torture sims come out? Enough of this humanitarian garbage, I'm lookin' for "Cheney's Fun House", "Ghost Recon: Special Forces Needle Nose Pliers Edition", and of course "Shocknutz Extreme".
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