,Ann Coulter and Michael Moore finally have a reason to stop bitching and pick up a controller. The people who brought the ambitious failure known as Advent Rising to the original Xbox are developing a new FPS that imagines our current piquant political situation devolving into full blown Civil War. Like Advent, the story of Empire is based on a novel by sci-fi author Orson Scott Card, who apparently watches a lot of cable talk shows. Here's the book description from Amazon:
The American Empire has grown too fast, and the fault lines at home are stressed to the breaking point. The war of words between Right and Left has collapsed into a shooting war, though most people just want to be left alone.
The battle rages between the high-technology weapons on one side, and militia foot-soldiers on the other, devastating the cities, and overrunning the countryside. But the vast majority, who only want the killing to stop and the nation to return to more peaceful days, have technology, weapons and strategic geniuses of their own.
In my fair and balanced view, the console climate is poisonous enough without throwing ideologies in the mix. But then, who hasn't watched The O'Reilly Factor and wanted to frag somebody. Oh yeah, the tanks on the cover of the novel look like they're from Halo. Bring it on!
