Wednesday, June 01, 2005

Want to give the world a hug?

The United Nations, seeing a need for a more peaceful video game market, has created "an action-packed humanitarian video game that lets players rack up points for air dropping food rations and surveying war-torn populations on the fictitious island of Sheylan," according to Time Magazine. The game is called Food-Force and is available for free download. So far, according to Time Magazine, it's been downloaded over 800,000 times.

Unfortunately, (according to the website Fresh Politics) the game does not allow you to get rid of Kofi Annan or investigate scandals. I suspect the game also doesn't allow you to sexually abuse the locals and turn them into prostitutes, or steal oil profits intended to help the starving in Iraq and bribe foreign officials.

Also there's no word on whether you can blame the fictional humanitarian crisis on Israel.