Left Behind: Eternal Forces now free (Hurry! First 1m only!)

So it looks as though we'll be leaving this one behind, then?

I dunno much bout Christianity, but claiming a 5-dollar game to be free ought to be sin.

"Eternal Forces: Left Behind" may not have won itself an audience but that didn't stop the London Review of Books citing it in an anti video game article as "adding an evangelical thrill to the marriage of technology and annihilation that the console generation loves". Yet another example of the appalling way the media (in this case the purportedly highbrow media) treat gaming. For more see http://unpremeditated.blogspot.com/2008/01/lies-damned-lies-and-letters-to-lrb.html

OYG!

Silly developers. Gamers play games to get AWAY from life's problems, not to dive head first into them.

Like little billy wants to play a Jesus game after his stuck up family keeps dragging him there every Sunday, no matter how much refuses, no matter how much he knows most of the people there are full of shit.

*sniff* I HATE YOU MOM!!

Boy, this sure turned into an anti-Christian thread fast. Though I'm a Christian, I would actually be scared to see the opposite of what I'm seeing here. Contrary to popular belief, Christians are told that they'll be hated and rejected, according to the words of Jesus Christ.

Not that I'd buy that game or anything; I'm just sayin'.

Godbotherers! they cant even give their propoganda away!! Religion mystifies me.... it causes misery to this world and has caused unnecessary millions of deaths I will take science and reason and an acceptance that the universe is much to complex for man to fully understand than blind faith in a completely man made myth designed in the middle east to control the population through fear and generate cash and power. I cannot believe that in 2008 people still swallow this middle eastern thought control crap. My idea of "hell"lolz is to be stuck with religious nutters for all eternity with no way to get away from them. Blind faith/superstition is a sign of blighted reasoning or mental conditioning. News just in.. the tooth fairy is a lie too. The born again hypocrites who make this drivel are as dangerous as any other whack job fundamentalist extremists they have a severe and dangerous mental illness and with their apocalyptic desires represent a bizarre threat to non mentally ill people who actually care about our planet and value its importance as mankinds only home and wish for mankind to solve its problems and undergo a further renaissance, to leave these myths in the past and advance and evolve with reason and scientific intellect. I wish they would all get "beamed up" and leave! good riddance.

We all know that the games referencing Christianity and the bible suck, always have, probably always will...I will agree (like someone posted earlier) that there are some awesome settings for games in scripture. We just need the right developer and publisher.
As a side note, do any of you even know any Christians? I mean real Christians? Probably not

It's amazing how many fundie christens have never read the bible. They think hating gays will be good enough, yet conveniently forget that virtually on the same page it says "GAYS R GAY!", it says you shouldn't eat pork. Yet I bet you'll see these hateful little fuckers stuffing their pudgy face with bacon at the local BBQ pit.

Same thing for the rapture, which is the basis of this train wreck of a game. The rapture isn't in the bible. Let me underline that; THE RAPTURE IS NOWHERE IN THE BIBLE AT ALL, ANYWHERE SHAPE OR FORM! The whole notion of "good people" popping out of existence was thought up by some prick about a hundred years ago. It has all the credibility of scientology, only not as funny.

In fact the whole apocalypse bit of that damn book has been questioned from the start. As in the time the Roman emperor Constantine hammered the damn thing into roughly the shape we see today. All historians know for a fact (kinda), is that the apocalyptic "dream" in the Book of Revelation came from some guy (probably not Daniel) on a Geek island, that's most notable feature is that it's covered in magic mushrooms.

Okay, I'll shut up now.

I love the quotes on the front of the box. Neither one of them actually says anything good about the game, they're just general observations. Why didn't they just invent some critics to say good things about the game and slap that on the front of the box?

Once they're willing to pay me, I'll be happy to use a proxy to dl the game to a virtual machine where I will delete it as soon as it is complete and I've cashed the check they sent me.

I love how freaking out of context that Kotaku quote is, freaking priceless.

As one of the few people that has actually played this game, let me tell you, it's awful. Not only is it the most sexist game I've ever played (Men can be any profession but women can only be two, I believe, which are both professions the men could be too) but the gameplay is just lame. And it gets really hard too! I don't know what kind of market they were going for here, but they didn't hit it.

Finally an affordable way to combine my love of religious intolerance with my love of the Zerg Rush.

Woah its like the computer doctor infomercial business model. Learn how to use Microsoft Excel OR Save your everlasting soul for free! You pay only for the shipping!

As an atheist, I'm waiting for a company to make "Left Behind: Evolution Ain't Touchin' Them Religious Folks".

First day purchase. And, yes, everyone else is right. This game isn't even worth the $5 download fee.

Here we go! Ok first of all, religion does not make the world worst off. Its the negativity of people that drags the world down be it religious or atheist. Positive atheist would respect others peoples right to believe what they want and go on with their life, Christians who are positive would do the same. But since this whole generation is so f*c*ed up, anything that appears non-subjective, moral, absolute is some how evil.. its not "tolerant" and yet somehow a post about a game can create so much animosity. You can site the Jerry fallwells, jack Thompsons that screw up Christianity and like wise I can point to the Hitlers, Stalins and Dalhmers that screw up Atheism.. Point being someone elses failures no matter what religion or non religion they represent should not reflect on the movement as a whole.

The Gideons are going to start leaving copies of this game in hotel rooms.

Makes me wonder... would anyone download it if they didn't have to pay anything?

I'm gonna stick with the movies. Not that they arn't.

Now, why are so many of you so chached abput a game based(albeit disparatley) on a religion? Nobody said it about Okami(shintoism?) Akuji/Shadowman(Santeria). Why do I sense when a lot of you say "Respect and tolerance" you never mean towards Christianity?

Now, I'm not worked up over what you all believe or live or do, whatever. THAT said, I am a Christian, albeit one that hasn't stepped inside a church in a while. During my time I saw amazing things, and I don't mean the Red Sea parting. I saw a person forgive the man who crippled him, who he would meet. He pulls his wheelchair now. THAT's a miracle.

But Christianism is not for everyone. It requires sacrifice, and to leave behind many things and ways of thinking. So I'm spamming everyone here so they convert. That said, why is a game made to convert people SUCH A NEGATIVE THING? Let's get out the way the game prolly sucks. Why? Because you can kill? You've killed in other games, and probably for worst reasons. Unless you kill unarmed civilians it wouldn't be that bad. Why, is spreading your beliefs wrong, now? I mean, I disagree with Pro Gay groups, but they have their rights.

Gavin- That's some funny stuff, man. Now make the same kind of comment about OTHER "silly beliefs" and you'll see everybody get real serious. Come on, I dare you!

Of course they know what they're doing. If they can get a million people to pay $5 and all they have to supply is bandwidth, that's an easy $5 million on a craptastic game. Plus they get to say that it went platinum for "selling" 1 million copies.

It's an attempt to make a total failure somehow seem like a success.

It is free... because of the ads in the game. Views equal revenue.

Question: when have you ever seen any other free offer be "free free?" Left Behind Games controls neither the post office nor the company that is providing the download service (trymedia.com). Why is only this offer subject to such petty, false nitpicking? Oh, right. Because it's from an company with Christian values.

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I also don't see Wiccans trying to force laws on anyone"

I'm sure an educated legal scholar like yourself will undrstand that "lobbying" is something even Nabisco does...right? Pro-LGHTS, tobbaco, even commonwealths like my home, lobby up to get laws made. I guess people would rather have a law forced into them if it seems from a minority...

Certainly you can't expect the company to pay for the shipping, handling or file hosting costs. For a company to offer a top quality RTS game less than 6 months old (when the latest update was released) for free is quite amazing. The game has received plenty of positive reviews from organizations such as Wired Magazine, IGN, ArsTechinca, Breakaway magazine, CCGR, UGO, Game Vortex, GameShark, Just Adventure and more. If you haven’t played the game, for $5.95 go get and try it yourself.

This Blog Post is made as an official statement by a representative of LEFT BEHIND GAMES Inc.



Many bloggers are wasting your time and getting people riled-up for nothing. But don’t take our word for it, please be an INFORMED and RESPONSIBLE BLOGGER, by taking moment to read what real EXPERTS have had to say. If you still don’t like what you read, get the game for free (nominal shipping charge) and judge it for yourself.



- The Anti-Defamation League: Although they speak out against the book’s theology, this is what they have to say about the PC game, “Conversion to Christianity in the game is not depicted as forcible in nature, and violence is not rewarded in the game.”



- IGN says, "To keep the balance of power in your favor, you'll have to find non-violent ways to avoid getting killed. Your units will definitely fight back in a life or death situation but, for the most part, you want to either avoid your enemies or have a ready plan to convert to your side using musicians and disciples. This gets much harder as the game progresses.”



- ArsTechnica.com says, “Many groups have made inaccurate statements about this game that need to be corrected. For one thing, it is not particularly violent. While there are violent aspects of the game, the game makes it clear that shooting is the last resort. Second, it is not hateful to other religions. It does have an agenda, and I think you need to know that going in, but there's no bashing of other faiths.” and “…the game is fun, it'll keep parents happy with its light levels of violence, and it'll be sold at video game stores, religious book stores, and everywhere else people spend money on God. This game will certainly get the message out.”



- Wired Magazine says, “So the great surprise of LEFT BEHIND: Eternal Forces is that it actually kind of rocks...few titles are as ambitious and as polished as this title.”



- Dallas Anderson of Billy Graham Evangelical Association says, “one of the geniuses of the Left Behind game is that it gives gamers a chance to see the consequences of poor decisions…we’re pretty excited to see that the LEFT BEHIND games were designed to provide positive moral input to a youthful generation which would otherwise not hear it.”



- LEFT BEHIND author Tim LaHaye says, “…for those who are into video games, Eternal Forces is the #1 most powerful vehicle for their hearts and minds that’s been invented in our lifetime.”



- Focus on the Family (Breakaway Magazine) says, “Overall, this is a positive faith building game worth your time and money.”



- Founder of Concerned Women for America, Beverly LaHaye says, “Here is a game we heartily recommend.”



Better yet, LB Games is giving 1,000,000 Eternal Force games away for free (with a nominal S&H/convenience fee). Try the game out for yourself – to date it has lead over 700 Gamers to the Lord. It is simple; click here and either download or have it shipped. Then once you have tried it, experienced the game first hand, you can accurately blog your opinion.