Gaming could be able to offer a rather interesting look into the recruitment practices of al Qaeda. I'm not condoning or praising the actions of terrorists, but I will say a good number of them are recruited because al Qaeda looks like the better party in that part of the world.SuperSamio64 said:Day of Defeat and Resistance and Liberation are both games where you can play as the Wermacht, but it's true that there's no campaign or anything. The way I see it it's just two sides of a war so I don't see the problem. So long as you weren't playing like a concentration camp officer(or to use your Al Qaeda example, a suicide bomber) it'd probably be fine.Mr. Eff said:Playing as Nazis or Al-Queda. God forbid people play a game from an opposing point of view...
In fact, I wouldn't mind seeing a game that pulls a big reveal that you're working for the terrorists, because you followed all the usual revenge story tropes.
It'd piss off most gamers, I think, but maybe it'd make some of us think.