Bush the target in Iraq war game mod
by James Ransom-Wiley 
{ Sep 20th 2006 at 3:25PM }
The Global Islamic Media Front, which has been described as a "jihadist mouthpiece," recently released Night of Bush Capturing, which is, ironically, a mod of Petrilla Entertainment's crass budget-FPS, Quest for Saddam.The game, which according to an advertisement is being distributed for "terrorist children," features six stages, with images of Bush, Tony Blair, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, and Hassan Nasrallah (Hezbollah's leader) pasted on the walls of a generic U.S. military camp. War nasheeds can be heard playing in the background as the player progresses to a final showdown with U.S. President George W. Bush.
While we don't anticipate the threat level being raised because of this release, or for that matter, Night of Bush Capturing becoming budding terrorist's "Halo," this mod is an interesting example on how a 'weapon' can be turned against its creator -- in this case, off-color Iraq war game becomes "Bush Hunter." All's fair in love and war, right?
[Via GameSpot]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
azesino @ Sep 20th 2006 3:36PM
Just crazy, I wanted see what the game was about but Iam scared to download it and see my house surrounded by feds acussing me of suporting terrorism, and having a training camp in my bedroom lol.
diskoboy @ Sep 20th 2006 3:36PM
Isn't gaming (and anything past the 8th century) anti-islamic?
KR @ Sep 20th 2006 3:40PM
This comment section will be an interesting gauge of who supports Bush, who disagrees with Bush, and how many retarded people think "LOL IT WOULD BE AWESOME IF THIS HAPENED IN REAL LIFE CUZ BUSH IS TEH ONLY REEL TERORIST!"
Zo K. @ Sep 20th 2006 3:42PM
Another post just waiting to explode into anti-Islamic rhetoric and asinine, racist remarks. Here's hoping I'm wrong.
jc @ Sep 20th 2006 3:40PM
I got as far as the giant enemy crab level, but I didn't see G.Bush anywheres...
Good luck finding this game... I bet you would have an easier time finding WMD in Iraq.
james @ Sep 20th 2006 3:45PM
Yeah i agree #1 then they'll probably (gasp!) Confiscate our pc's for evidence!!!
Kestrel @ Sep 20th 2006 3:44PM
"Isn't gaming (and anything past the 8th century) anti-islamic?"
Actually diskoboy, if you criticize Islam, you better go into hiding for the rest of your life because the growing radical elements of the religion will come and cut your head off. Literally.
If you want to criticize someone without repurcussions, then go after the world's #1 target: white upper middle class Republican Christian males.
Jose @ Sep 20th 2006 3:52PM
Hhahaha. No really, who cares? People will make mods for days. What does it say when the original game itself was propaganda for one side? Does it really matter that someone makes an equally idiotic modification?
potato @ Sep 20th 2006 3:48PM
nice
Derbeste @ Sep 20th 2006 3:51PM
After all the games with Americans shooting muslims......turn about is fair play imo.
P.S. I do not hate Bush. I am Ambivalent.
The Jonster @ Sep 20th 2006 3:51PM
"Bush Hunter"? Is that some sort of spin-off of a Leisure-suit Larry game?
get over it @ Sep 21st 2006 12:44PM
"Bush Hunter"
i believe that's played at the local bar every friday night... let's hope it got an AO rating from the ESRB.
nootau @ Sep 20th 2006 3:56PM
"Isn't gaming (and anything past the 8th century) anti-islamic?"
Well, by that logic gaming is also anti-christian too....but dont say that too loudly.....
FSK405K @ Sep 20th 2006 3:53PM
so where does someone actually get this, not being able to type in arabic?
Frosty22 @ Sep 20th 2006 3:56PM
A sect of religion based on hate. Awesome. Why aren't the followers of true Islam (which is SUPPOSED to be peaceful) trying to get these damn extremists on track? In early Christianity when people distorted the gospel to a shadow of itself the church rigerously fought it.
These radicals are the voice of Islam. Is that how they want it?
Matt @ Sep 20th 2006 3:55PM
Well, as we all know: all Muslims are exactly like Osama bin Laden, and all white, upper middle class Christian Republican males are like George W. Bush.
Just so long as that's nice and clear.
Player1 @ Sep 20th 2006 3:55PM
Are women allowed to play?
Dominic @ Sep 20th 2006 3:56PM
Here is a link to megashare where you can get the game:
http://www.megashare.com/49687
polly @ Sep 20th 2006 3:59PM
"If you want to criticize someone without repurcussions, then go after the world's #1 target: white upper middle class Republican Christian males."
That's about the stupidest thing I've ever heard. Delusions of persecution much?
Way to fan the flames joystiq!
mykie @ Sep 20th 2006 4:01PM
The Americans have had an anti-bush game for quite some time:
http://www.emogame.com/bushgame.html
crono141 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:04PM
Not really,
Seriously, try and say something bad about muslims, or muslims in general. Zoe K will bite your head off.
Now say just about anything bad about rich white christians, and see the kind of laugh fest that follows with comments of "yeah totally!" and "Christians are such hypocrits!"
Say the same thing about muslims, I dare you.
Jose @ Sep 20th 2006 4:14PM
I just don't understand the fundamental need all christians have to criticize other cultures, religions, and belief systems, without any sort of introspection whatsoever.
Also, what Christians are coming out openly against the policies of the religious right in our country? I see very few. A few Methodists, a few Catholic organizations, but other than that very few.
Player1 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:11PM
Do Islamic games have a different ratings system?
Suicide bombings, beheadings = Rated "E" for everyone
Images of Muhammed = Rated "I" for Infidel
Scythe @ Sep 20th 2006 4:11PM
the muslims flew the planes into our buildings are cowards and use innocent people to kill more innocent people. They are the rats that feast off of the dead flesh of other dead rats. They are the lowest of low the weakest of the weak. They care for nothing then the hopes that they finaly get laid when they die.
Ok I just said something what now? I'm waiting?
Scythe @ Sep 20th 2006 4:14PM
Or wait try this CARTOON of Muhammed OMG!
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/8632/islmcartoon6ka3.jpg
Jose @ Sep 20th 2006 4:14PM
And if your going to be offensive, at least be funny like Player1. Scythe, you are just an idiot. Get hooked on phonics before you try to spell above a third grade level.
Zo K. @ Sep 20th 2006 4:20PM
Wow. crono141 has crawled out of his/her mom's basement to grace our presence with another lovely post. Once again, given the chance to be as racist as humanly possible, s/he's up to the challenge.
No crono141, I'm sorry. I'm not playing your game today. I felt I should let you know this. There's hate the world over. You're just another face in the pathetic, disgusting crowd.
Scythe @ Sep 20th 2006 4:20PM
Jose was that it? Was that all you have geeze and I thought my sister was lame at comebacks. Whatever man look All's fair in love and war, right?
If I could do the jokes from South Park where they made fun of him I would. I'm not part of a country that beheads it's POWs or puts their women in a hole up to their neck then stone them to death. So STFU before you try to tell me to be funny. Who said I was being funny I was more insulting them rather then being funny. Go suck Hilley's left boob and leave me alone.
polly @ Sep 20th 2006 4:22PM
Ok crono141...
Radical muslim extremists who protest the Pope's speech by firebombing a church are frickin hypocrits!
(waits...) hmm...nothing.
Well off white Republican Christians who think they are the world's #1 persecuted demographic are frickin hypocrits!
Christians that think Islam is the only religion that can be manipulated towards violence and extremism or for political purposes are frickin hypocrits!
Yeah. I'll stand by all those statements.
Know any muslims personally? Didn't think so.
crono141 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:22PM
Thanks, Jose, for proving half my point for me.
Actually, you proved both points, due to your criticism of Scythe posting one of the cartoons that started RIOTS across half the world.
Because aparently, having a sense of humor and turning the other cheek have no place in islam.
crono141 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:23PM
Also, Zoe, thank you for reinforcing my point.
Derbeste @ Sep 20th 2006 4:25PM
"I just don't understand the fundamental need all christians have to criticize other cultures, religions, and belief systems, without any sort of introspection whatsoever."
s....t....f.....u.
No...let me spell that out for you...
SHUT THE FUCK UP!
I don't understand the need for some in Islam to MURDER anyone that leaves the religion, draws a picture of Muhammed (who isn't even a diety in the religion). I don't understand the chants of "Death to any country that offense us!!.......and Israel and America too for good measure."
But I DO understand that it is a VAST minority of extremists that don't understand their own religion that do it!!
You REALLY think Christians have a monopoly of criticizing other spiritual ideas?
You HONESTLY believe ALL christians behave in the way you just pigeon holed them all?
I wish you were a female in a muslim country so you would not be aloud to speak in public again.
Jose @ Sep 20th 2006 4:26PM
Look you little ass pansy fascist fuck. Just because you are woefully ignorant of what your country does all over the fucking world, training paramilitary groups in latin america, africa, and every other fucking corner of the globe that has any economic interrest, doesn't mean the the blood doesn't drip from your masturbation calloused hands. Where do you think Osama learned how to be such a little hit and run bitch?
LaughingTarget @ Sep 20th 2006 4:26PM
Having an irrational hatred toward someone different than you is not a unique Christian trait, nor is it one that is more heavily evident among the group. Ever faith has the same attitude in roughly the same concentrations. Radical Islam is just Islam's version of The Spanish Inquisition (not the funny Monty Python one either).
You'd be amazed just how many individuals from different faiths refuse to intermingle with individuals from different ones. I'm personally one of the most hated of any possible faith bases. I don't believe any writings of any faith are divine in any way, they're self-help books, and I do believe in such a higher power. As such, atheists aren't interested and I've pretty much gotten on the bad side of every known religion that uses any kind of scripture as a basic truth.
The only reason Christianity seems to be the huge killer is two fold. One, most of us are in nations that are Christian majority (I say Christian as a lumped term holding all the various denominations, even though apparently some people consider Christianity a whole different beast than Catholicism et al) and also very open societies that have sensationalist medias. This makes the crazies more apparent, and since there are a lot more Christians than any other group, it makes it appear that Christians in general are a bunch of whackos.
Take a general cross-section of every faith, and you'll find the same percentage of fools in each of them. Christianity gets the extra brunt because their antics are seen on television more often.
As for the game, couldn't they have come up with a better name? Night of Bush Capturing sounds like a porn movie or a really corny movie involving lawn care professionals who battle mutant shrubbery.
crono141 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:27PM
Polly,
Yes I do know some muslims. One of my favorite professors in college is a muslim.
Also, I never said Christianity is most persecuted. I think that belongs to Judaism, since just about everybody hates jews.
And Zoe, I have not said anything hateful in this post, yet you insist on calling me, someone you've never met, never spoken to personally, and basically don't know at all, a racist and a bigot.
You are the bigot here, because you take one post out of context, and totally miss the point in another thread.
Too bad, too. Based on what else I've read from you (and your myspace site) you seem like you could be pretty cool if you weren't so rabid about calling people who disagree with you racist bigots.
Zo K. @ Sep 20th 2006 4:29PM
Jose, polly... only you can prevent forest fires.
If you quit responding to idiocy, idiocy has no one to bother and it goes somewhere else. We're not going to change how these morons think, and the longer we go on, the more Joystiq's posters know that the Islamic posts get them comments.
Leave these morons to their own devices and they'll have no one left to talk to.
Derbeste @ Sep 20th 2006 4:33PM
"As for the game, couldn't they have come up with a better name? Night of Bush Capturing sounds like a porn movie or a really corny movie involving lawn care professionals who battle mutant shrubbery."
LOFUCKINGL
That was the funniest thing I've read all day. We totally needed that bit of comedy relief there. Rock on!
Your name is very appropriate.
If I could give stars, yours would be about to double.
reguy @ Sep 20th 2006 4:34PM
Zoe K, you're wrong here. as far as i can see you started the personal attacks and then you have the nerve to call others morons and idiots.
way to show class there.
juicebytim @ Sep 20th 2006 4:36PM
Somebody get Player1 some stars, pronto.
Scythe @ Sep 20th 2006 4:36PM
Jose put down the burning flag and settle down. I would have had no problem with them if they would have not attacked us. They started it because they hate the way we live and believe. I could have cared less with how they live their lives and what they do, but for them to come here and decided that because we charish life and give our women rights is wrong and we should be killed for it then I say to them and all that think like them. Thank GOD we are ridding this planet of you and your sick minded people.
Anyone have a problem with that then good because this is America where I live and I have the right to say whatever the FUCK I want about anyone I want Screw this politaly correct shit.
crono141 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:42PM
"32. Look you little ass pansy fascist fuck. Just because you are woefully ignorant of what your country does all over the fucking world, training paramilitary groups in latin america, africa, and every other fucking corner of the globe that has any economic interrest, doesn't mean the the blood doesn't drip from your masturbation calloused hands. Where do you think Osama learned how to be such a little hit and run bitch?"
And I get accused of hate speech...
Thats right, we were responsible, for both Saddam Hussein and Osama Bin Laden. We thought, at the time, that communism was the worst EVIL in the world, and ANYTHING would be better than that.
Now we know we are wrong. And now we're back, in afganistan and iraq, cleaning up the mess we made ourselves.
What would you have us do, leave them to their own devices? To continue to plot against freedom itself?
If you believe us to be responsible for this problem, then you should also believe it is our responsibility to fix it.
Hardcore @ Sep 20th 2006 4:49PM
Hey Scythe -
You've got to be just about the dumbest motherfucker on the planet. What are you like 12? (I hope for society's sake you are). You, my friend, are the poster child for abortion clinics.
Scythe @ Sep 20th 2006 4:50PM
crono141 I couldn't agree with you more on that last post.
http://img524.imageshack.us/my.php?image=arabjackassownedvl4.gif
Lone Starr @ Sep 20th 2006 4:58PM
"All's fair in love and war, right?"
Yeah, like blowing up civilians? Good one Joystiq. You fail.
juicebytim @ Sep 20th 2006 4:54PM
Dear commenters of this posting,
Last I checked this is a videogame blog, and God knows how many blogs are out there that would appreciate this kind of immature debate over political and religious concerns in their own comment sections.
Jose @ Sep 20th 2006 4:58PM
Okay Scythe, I apologize, I thought you wanted to hear me call you names, that's what I got from post 27. Anyway, if you truly believe these countries hate us for our freedoms, you have been duped. While we turn a blind eye to the same sort of Muslim extremism in places like Egypt and the UAE, we crack down on it in other places. We are not spreading democracy, we are spreading capital in search of new markets for goods, and new resources to exploit. That's just a simple minded explanation at a complex truth.
The fact is that we need to stop being so heavy handed with our foreign policies. We cannot force our will upon a whole world. We can't run the world economy like we run our own. The WTO, NAFTA, and all similar trade associations headed by large European and American conglomerates. They are sovereign nations not nation states.
Player1 @ Sep 20th 2006 4:58PM
I played this game and it sucks. It's just 12 hours hiding in a spider hole.
Zo K. @ Sep 20th 2006 5:05PM
crono141, don't get me wrong. I don't hate you. I don't even know you... how could I hate you.
I do dislike hate, though, ironically enough. And you've said things in the past, while not necessarily blatantly hateful themselves, they were full of sweeping generalizations of a whole sect of people. And that, I'm sorry to say, leads to hate.
I didn't single you out in this post... you singled me out. I'm sure you're a cool person aside from these issues, but this is all I know you for -- commenting when the chance to be distasteful arises.
And Jose, you should calm down a bit.
Mike @ Sep 20th 2006 5:24PM
i dont think little children in Iraq have a computer what they gona have windows or they must have the newest piece of technology that just shiped in there Commodore 64 but anyway i should make a game where you blow the shit out of iraq it would be for the xbox 360 or ps2 and commodore 64 so they can experience it
crono141 @ Sep 20th 2006 5:32PM
Thanks Zoe,
And I will admit that my initial post in that "other" thread was full of generalizations (self admittedly so), and then I spent the entire rest of it trying to dig myself out of that hole.
So here it is:
I do not hate other people. Though I may disagree with certain lifestyles, hate never enters into it. Peace and harmony really is the way to go.
Sometimes, though, thats not what the deck deals us.