Posted on 07/13/2007 12:45:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Whether it's storming the beach at Normandy, slugging a heavyweight champ or stealing cars in San Andreas, video game developers have made billions by letting players' imaginations run wild in increasingly sophisticated virtual worlds.
Now a New York human rights group called Breakthrough is taking advantage of the same strategy -- but not for its entertainment value. The group's controversial new game "ICED! I Can End Deportation" in which players can step into the role of an illegal immigrant attempting to avoid deportation has a political agenda.
"It's really important in today's world to create a dialogue about social issues," said Mallika Dutt, founder and executive director of Breakthrough. "You have to use innovative media, especially if you want to engage young people."
The game, which will be free to download from the ICED! Web site in September, lets players take on one of five protagonists of varying ethnicities and legal statuses, from undocumented to permanently legal, each developed from real case studies.
ICED! players are required to make "moral choices." Jumping turnstiles in the subway or robbing stores causes players to lose points and puts them in danger of getting caught by an immigration official and detained or deported.
Conversely, players can gain points and avoid detention by planting trees, helping the elderly or volunteering around their community.
According to Breakthrough's Web site, the game simply and directly "teaches players about the unjust nature of U.S. immigration policy."
'Criticism of the Current System' In the game, staying out of trouble is much easier than getting out of it. Detention centers and deportation hearings are cast in a harsh light.
"We've tried to simulate a detention center down to how you'd make phone calls," Dutt said. "It's a criticism of the current system and an actual representation of what's going on. People are having difficulty accessing health care and getting their medicine. People have died. Young women are complaining about sexual harassment."
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Three page article.
Make it playable over the Internet with the option of being first-person-shooter Border Patrol and they’ll make millions.
Good gracious. How about some REAL enforcement and mass demonstrations? In the here and now. In the REAL WORLD.
mass DEPORTATIONS (correction)
It will just re-enforce the idea that the illegal aliens are the innocents with have some kind of right to be here and that the rest of us are the enemy...
The person or company that comes out with the game that let’s you hunt illegals will make a fortune.
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Dreier Bill Is Key Component of House GOP Border Security Bill
Intel report: Al-Qaida aiming at US
DHS Completes Second Down-Select of Proposed Sites for the National Bio and Agro-Defense Facility
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You don’t even know what you all are saying. not all imigrants are the same, don’t blame it on everybody. not only imigrants are bad everybody can be bad but you just see what you want to see. I THINK THIS IS A GOOD GAME!!!
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