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Video Clip: "You can play both the good side and the bad side"! |
| Tue Jul 04, 2006 at 01:07:48 PM EST |  print story | |
background / resources : For a bestiary of quotes from "Left Behind Games" company representatives on the nature of the "Left Behind: Eternal Forces video game, see "Fascinating Coffee table Discussions On mass Killing ?" One would have to assume that Tim Lahaye - who is quoted in a recent LA Times article, on the new video game "Left Behind: Eternal Forces", as commenting "We hope teenagers like the game." - apparently has missed Jeffrey Frischner's video plug, as a key selling point, of the fact that the game allows players to command "both the good side and the bad side" - that would seem to teach the sort of "moral relativity" that LaHaye has long inveighed against. |
We may never know. Enter, stage "relatively" right, Jeffrey Frischner:
Left Behind Games company head Jeffrey Frischner, in this rather blunt plug for his company's upcoming release of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces", describes the key selling point of his new game in a "describe your game in 15 seconds or less" challenge by a game review company that seems to issue the "15 second challenge" to game makers to spur them to spit out ( in 15 seconds or less of course ) what's really essential about their games.
So, what's the most essential aspect, it would seem, of "Left Behind: Eternal Forces" to Jeffrey Frischner ? In his own words :
"The reason "Left Behind: Eternal Forces, the PC game, is such a great, incredible, fantastic game is because you can play both the good side and the bad side. It is the ultimate...." (buzzer sounds : Frischner's 15 seconds are up)
OK then. I think I get it. In relative terms. Depending on context and situation, of course.
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