SS Super Soldier - Nazi video game (WARNING, OFFENSIVE)

[police brutality]

I recently found this while surfing spanish game-making boards. I'll translate the premise of the game. I thought it'd be interesting to share with you and see what you think.

Warning, this is probably very offensive.

"SS Super Soldier (In Production)

It's year 1933 and you're a German SS soldier.

Your mission in the first level is to stop the German communist terrorists and cripple their plot to burn down the Reichstag.  The 2nd mission takes place in 1935 and is about the Jewish Mafia in Germany. You will have to destroy the sinagoge where Semite ringleaders are hiding to save the German people from the claws of Zionism. The following levels will deal with the annexation of Austria, the invasion of France and the battle with Yankies and Communists."

There's a 5 MB demo availiable,
www.hyperupload.com/download/02de544b51/SS_Super_Soldado.rar.html

I've talked to the developer (He's Argentinian), and he's a nice guy, he's also working on a MMORPG called AGARTHA II that deals with the 'Hollow Earth' and the 'Missing nazi subs' theories (Imagine WoW, but you can choose between Aryans, Americans, etc instead of Orcs and Elves) he sympathizes with Nazism.

The question I wanted to bring up is,

What do you think of video games being used to bring people into political movements?

[Damien]

Sounds like a bad idea, especially the history distorsion:

...the Jewish Mafia in Germany...

...save the German people from the claws of Zionism...

What do you think of video games being used to bring people into political movements?

I'm not sure this games are that much about a political movement, more of creating a publicity through (extreme) controversy.

The developer should have thought twice.

[scotch]

It's not surprising people will make games with political statements, and I can look at it as a good thing because it shows how it's becoming a platform for an individual to express ideas besides making an entertaining product. That particular theme is derisible as a "political" platform statement, to me, but if you're asking about political games in general, why not? I don't think they'd be any more potent tools for persuasion than books, and I'd always like to get the feel the game developer is putting a bit of themselves in their games.

I also agree this guy sounds more like a controversialist/conspiracy nut than someone arguing a political point. I wish such people wouldn't attract so much attention, it's only real life trolling.

[Hammerite]

Nazis are dumb.

[police brutality]

I don't know if he's just being controversial for publicity, after all his games are freeware. But  I have my doubts since he doesn't seem like a neo nazi to me, and I know many. He could indeed be a poser.

However, I still don't see why you aren't taking this game seriously, I really don't know any way he could sponsor his message trough a game other than this. Have any of you tried the demo?

On another note, I need someone to confirm if the game music is indeed Queen's 'Invisible Man' (Everyone I've asked can't tell) because in that case the author would be very much a poser.

[Balin]

Eh, I prefer to keep things clean of political or other bias. Still, I suppose it is his right to make this game. Doesn't mean he won't take a lot of flak for it.

[Akatosh]

People like that only make Germans look bad.

[modgeulator]

I don't know if he's just being controversial for publicity, after all his games are freeware. ButÃ,  I have my doubts since he doesn't seem like a neo nazi to me, and I know many. He could indeed be a poser.

MMmmmMmm, yeah, hope he's a real nazi and not some poseur. Aryan soldiers gotta keep it real, bro.

(PS.  I'm taking the piss.)

[hedgefield]

I've always wondered why developers shy away from using a bad guy as a main character, like for instance the Germans during WW2, so I can appreciate this guy has the balls to finally tackle this angle, but I don't think he's using the right method. There's a fine line between parody and insultment. In this case those lines could be unclear to some people. Portraying a German soldier as a normal person would work out better I think, a more Brothers in Arms style. It was rumored Call of Duty would do it, but I've never seen it (in singleplayer at least). Surely it would be interesting., although ofcourse some people will still take offense. I think the generation that still harbors ill-will is afraid today's youth thinks too lightly about the subject. Ofcourse it was a terrible, terrible time, but one can't hate the Germans as a people forever for that.

[Khris]

I've talked to the developer (He's Argentinian), and he's a nice guy

That's like saying "I've tasted my poop and it tasted nice."

Regardless how nice or talented (game-developing-wise) he is, producing nazi-crap like that game makes him an asshole. Full stop.

[Shane 'ProgZmax' Stevens]

he's a nice guy...he sympathizes with Nazism

Nice Nazis?  What's the world coming to?

[Helm]

I've talked to the developer (He's Argentinian), and he's a nice guy

That's like saying "I've tasted my poop and it tasted nice."

You know, poop could taste worse for how it smells...

There's people with all sorts of opinions that can be misunderstood or that they don't really understand themselves, sometimes hateful or ignorant opinions, that don't directly send their souls to HELL for having them.

[ManicMatt]

I haven't played this game, but I hear he's making a game where you're extreme Muslim terrorists and you have to infiltrate the most populated areas and set off your bomb on your back at the right time to score big and kill as many people as possible.

I'm lying. And that game.. wouldn't be well received, either...

[Klytos]

I'd be interested to know how many times that game has been downloaded. It'd be an interesting exercise in the human condition.

Damn, I sounded like something out of Star Trek then.