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"Official" Russian Military game depicting invasion of Ukraine released on Steam as Yunarmy propaganda
(www.eurogamer.net)
Libs are angry 
about it, as expected.
When you point out that this is no different from all those US military propaganda games, they are quick to bring up that this is uniquely evil because it covers a currently active war. As if there weren't a bajillion military games set in the Middle East during the "War on Terror". 
They truly have a selective memory.
I think most of those were set in various Madeupistans or had some kind of corny Tom Clancy bullshit plots with moustache-twirling villains rather than being this ripped from the headlines
I don't really see how setting your
Army goodgame in Carbombya or Qurac is much better than a real placeThe generation of animus is there regardless
In the America's Army FPS game allies always looked like the US also, the enemies always vaguely less white with AKs, the teams were 'offense' and 'defense' but you were US no matter what, against the 'others'.
A free-to-play game set in an active conflict that's being promoted by an organisation that tries to get young people to enlist in the armed forces to fight in said conflict is a new level of ghoulish imo
It's been done
Like I said, it's all mostly been silly GI Joe nonsense instead of actual conflicts the US is involved in, even in this Army recruitment tool. I think the 2012 Medal of Honor game that glorified bearded operator thugs was set in Afghanistan during the War on Terror, but I obviously never played that. There was also the cancelled game, Six Days of Fallujah that was talked about a lot specifically because it was set during an actual battle
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1548850/Six_Days_in_Fallujah/
Was uncancelled
Of all the cancelled games in the world why did this one have to come back
Blame Marty O'Donnell, the former Halo composer, who's a massive chud who apparently really wanted to see this terrible idea become playable.
lmao, this is what his game studio has amounted to?
Kinda funny seeing him going from palling around with Paul McCartney back when Destiny 1 was being made to dumpster diving this limp troop-fellating trash from the dustbin of history and being online 24/7, commenting on every Youtube video made about the Bungie Halos. The guy was so annoying that he even got banned from the fucking Halo subreddit (presumably before it was known he was a rabidly right-wing Facebook boomer.)
His studio is so successful it doesn't even have its own page on Wikipedia. I definitely remember people knowing or at least suspecting he was a chud at least as far back when Destiny 1 came out, since he had made a bunch of anti-abortion tweets.
I'm sure Gamers were more than willing to look past his "personal political opinions" back when it was less socially acceptable for them to just embrace them wholeheartedly
In old articles, interviews and blog posts on the Bungie website back from the Halo days the other devs would often talk about how Marty was by far the oldest and most conservative member on the team
Some people just cant even leave fictional arab civilians unkilled.
Yeah, I joke about how mainstream American military good slop is, and that's its own thing, but while this may not be a BIG step up, it still is one in that it's just a straight up depiction of the current conflict and I think that's new.
Very good point. Also having played or seen a lot of other Russian sponsored games, it probably sucks bigly.
Because they can indulge in all the orientalist tropes in peace. They also need to do less research in actually portraying the country they are bombing (for fun).