Destructive Creations is at it again. The developers who two years ago made headlines with their controversial top-down shooter Hatred have announced a new game — IS Defense.
Never one to shy away from potentially controversial and troubling topics, Destructive Creations newest game is described as a "personal veto against what is happening in the Middle East nowadays."
The description of the game, which is currently in voting on Steam Greenlight, reads:
:IS Defense is a game set in politically-fictional 2020 – where the
expansion of ISIS went out of hand. They took over all of Northern Africa, spreading their genocidal understanding of the world’s order. Strongly armed, vast in numbers and prepared for everything, the Islamic State is launching the invasion upon Europe, over the entire Mediterranean Sea."
In the game you take on the role of NATO's stationary machine-gun operator, deployed to defend the shores of Europe from ISIS invaders. To help, you'll have at your disposal NATO's support forces, a machine gun, and a rocket launcher, plus additional opportunities to upgrade your gear, body, and army rank. This, in turn, will affect the "efficiency" of your support.
In addition to being a political stance, Destructive Creations also says this is an attempt to resurrect " a pretty dead genre of games like 'Operation Wolf' or 'Beach Head' in a state of the art and modern adaptation."
Similar to Hatred, I'm sure this game will drum up all sorts of controversy with opinions ranging on both ends of the spectrum. On one hand, the game does seem very racially motivated. On the other, it's ISIS, so at least you're targeting the "bad guys" this time around instead of innocent civilians and police.
Of course, the premise of the game has some detractors already second-guessing Destructive Creations' motives, insinuating this is more of an attack on innocent "refugees" and Muslims.
As always, we respect a developer's freedom to make whatever game they desire, although we may not always agree with the topic or premise. With Hatred, for example, I didn't necessarily agree with the idea of killing innocent civilians, but there were some positive takeaways from the game, such as pretty awesome destruction physics. Destructive Creations looks to have taken what they've learned with Hatred and now applied it to large-scale warfare.
What do you think of Destructive Creations' new game, IS Defense? Will you be backing it?
