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Gamespot:
: When posts with headlines such as "9/11: The Game" started popping up on various forums, many thought the game would an offensive creation by terrorist sympathizers, similar to the (unfortunately) abundant suicide-bomber flash games. Like most things in life, however, the reality was much more complex. According to Replay, the game, entitled Survivor, "is a third-person disaster survival game with highly interactive locations, based on famous, authentic-historical disaster scenarios." This will not only include the horrors of 9/11, but the 1985 Mexico City Earthquake, the 1945 Hiroshima bombing, and the sinking of the Titanic. Why would anyone want to experience any of these hellish events? "We call this unique genre 'Reality Gaming,'" goes Replay's sales pitch, "The highly original single-player game concept has never been seen before." Incidentally, the highly original single-player game has not yet found a publisher.

Link:
http://www.replaystudios.de/survivor/index.php

Scenarios:
1912: Titanic sinking
1945: Hiroshima bombing
1985: Mexico City earthquake
1992: Hurricane Andrew
2001: World Trade Center attacks
2004: Paraguay - Fire in shopping mall

I'd buy it.

I'd buy it.
totally

If it were good enough of course. As in, better than Sonic Heroes (which is relativly easy to beat)

thats weird but if I could choose the disasters and not have to run thru them all I'd rent it for the titanic and the twin towers.

thats weird but if I could choose the disasters and not have to run thru them all I'd rent it for the titanic and the twin towers.
I'd do Hiroshima and 9/11

and perhaps Hurricane Andrew

those seem to be the most devastating ones.

I'd do Hiroshima and 9/11

and perhaps Hurricane Andrew

those seem to be the most devastating ones.
and the titanic would be harder if you were on the lower levels, a hell of alot harder and I'd make sure to push one of the guys in charge of the life boats of the edge and let him swim to shore.

But how do you live thru a nuclear attack? In the end your going to die anyway.

This is a bad idea. It'll seem like the company is trying to make $$ off of horrible disasters. There are some good ideas for a game, and then there are some ideas that should just stay ideas.

I'd buy it, as long as the scenery interaction and graphics were good.

This is a bad idea. It'll seem like the company is trying to make $$ off of horrible disasters. There are some good ideas for a game, and then there are some ideas that should just stay ideas.

Do you think disaster movies are bad ideas for this reason, then?

This is a bad idea. It'll seem like the company is trying to make $$ off of horrible disasters. There are some good ideas for a game, and then there are some ideas that should just stay ideas.
I dunno. I mean, people have made lots of money off of Stalingrad, Normandy, Pearl Harbour, and basically every other aspect of World War Two, (Vietnam too for that matter), and there are some popular games pitting terrorists against coounterterrorists. (All of these include plenty of death, most notably Stalingrad, which had more casualties than any other battle in recorded history. They're plenty worse than anything proposed for this game). Hiroshima and the World Trade Centre is the obvious next step. I won't buy it, of course, but I hardly ever buy video games.

This is a bad idea. It'll seem like the company is trying to make $$ off of horrible disasters. There are some good ideas for a game, and then there are some ideas that should just stay ideas.
Obviously, they're using disasters to their advantages. But the harsh reality is that people demand their entertainment. Look at the countless WW2 movies and videogames. Does the movies "Enemy at the Gates" and "Saving Private Ryan" come to mind? Do the games "Call of Duty" (a personal favortie) and "Battlefield 1942" come into question? All four are popular games and movies, bringing the publishers and investors thousands if not millions of dollars.

Meh, I just saw Fahrenheit 9/11...

But how do you live thru a nuclear attack? In the end your going to die anyway.

Sunscreen, my man. Lots and lots of sunscreen. :)

Try escaping from a burning city like Dresden was in WW2. A burning shopping mall is a joke compared to that.

Sunscreen, my man. Lots and lots of sunscreen. :)
Dude, duct tape!

This is going way, way too far. Making a video game about...

Okay. Let's think about it for a minute. What if there was a video game about being a Jew in one of the WWII concentration camps? Same thing there. Whoever considers making something like that will claim that it's to honor the sacrifice of the people that died in the given event.

Uh no it's not. Reality check time: These game companies have no class, no tact, and no respect for human life. The one and only thing they care about is greenbacks. I'd personally go smack them upside their collective heads right now if I could.

This is going way, way too far. Making a video game about...

Okay. Let's think about it for a minute. What if there was a video game about being a Jew in one of the WWII concentration camps? Same thing there. Whoever considers making something like that will claim that it's to honor the sacrifice of the people that died in the given event.

Uh no it's not. Reality check time: These game companies have no class, no tact, and no respect for human life. The one and only thing they care about is greenbacks. I'd personally go smack them upside their collective heads right now if I could.
I'll assume you have the same attitude about any game portraying warfare in an historic context? Anything on the middle ages, feudal Japan, Rome, WW2, Vietnam? I don't imagine that people pretend any of these are about "honoring" anyone's memory. They're trying to make money, sure, and they're hoping that enough people want to play their game so they can make that money. I don't think anyone's pretending something else is going on. Anyone?

I've heard about this . . . I do believe this game will cause some controversy

how is it possible to survive hiroshima? or 9/11 if you're far up the building for that matter.

how is it possible to survive hiroshima? or 9/11 if you're far up the building for that matter.
People survived Hiroshima, many people did - I read a book on the accounts of 5 different survivors.

Films are made of diasters & wars, they can be very enjoyable and entertaining. Why is it so bad if its in a game?

http://www.molleindustria.it/pivot/entry.php?id=20#body


(and for those who can get it, these

http://www.newsgaming.com/games/index12.htm
http://www.antiwargame.org/

ask a few good questions)

The only argument against it that I can think of is that it's far too soon to be making games about 9/11. Yes, there are multitudes of games about WWII, but those games are being made 50, 60 years after the fact, after the events have become old in the people's minds. 9/11 was 3 years and change ago. It's still a very real moment in people's minds.

That all being said, I don't think this game shouldn't be made just because some people find it distasteful.

Marxlan: Actually, no, though I can see where you get that idea. In my opinion though, it's something completely different to portray the victims of a tragedy (hence, my example of a concentration camp prisoner in WWII) than to portray someone fighting in a war.

I guess my opinion doesn't make sense.. can't find a good way to explain it, myself.

It'll be banned in the USA.


Just wait 50 years then we get to see the movie "The War on Terror", It will be a movie no doubt about it.

It'll be banned in the USA.


Just wait 50 years then we get to see the movie "The War on Terror", It will be a movie no doubt about it.


Meh...I don't think we will have to wait that long...

I'd do Hiroshima and 9/11

Yeah, they sound cool. The Titanic one sounds interesting, too.

I'd buy it.

Same here. It seems like it could be a very interesting game. Even with a 9/11 scenario, I wouldn't see it as offensive, but as a way for people who were not involved to maybe see and experience some form of it, to help us better understand it. There are many aspects of disasters such as these mentioned by the game that can actually be felt by the player: Confusion, needing to make fast decisions, even fear. Though it would not give you the full experience, which most people would rather not have, it would make for a very interesting game.

Yeah, they sound cool. The Titanic one sounds interesting, too.

I would definitely be interested in seeing that. I've always been facsinated by the Titanic since I was a kid.