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Feeling righteous? Want to wreck stuff?

Fans of the LEFT BEHIND books--the pulp thrillers that envision a post-Rapture America--can now enjoy the videogame ETERNAL FORCES, set in battleground Manhattan, where good and evil forces will fight it out. New York magazine reviews the game and meets its makers. Players of this First person shooter game won't have to worry about much collateral damage. Those who've been Saved have been carried up in the Rapture. The Left Behind characters--there are 300 to choose from--must join either the Tribulation Force (good guys) or the army of the Anti-Christ (bad).

The game arrives in stores just in time for Christmas--and the same week that Korea's joined the nuclear club.

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How do you sell RESERVOIR DOGS: THE GAME?

In the UK, you remind the buying public that violence and cussing, American-style, are so ordinary that they're child's play.

Enjoy, motherfuckers!

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Which do you like?

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Do violent videogames desensitize kids to death and destruction?

As Wired magazine's Tom Standage slyly points out in the April 2006 issue, Grand Theft Auto and its ilk aren't the first forms of entertainments to attract the ire of moralizing politicians, preachers and parents.

"Young people embrace an activity. Adults condemn it. The kids grow up, no better or worse than their elders, and the moral panic subsides. Then the whole cycle starts over."

Read about parental and political freakouts over sensational novels, the waltz, the telephone and other now-tame crazes that failed to eradicate our grandparents and great-grandparents' generations.

My favorite condemnation:

"This new form of entertainment has gone far to blast maidenhood...Depraved adults with candies and pennies beguile children with the inevitable result...God alone knows how many are leading dissolute lives begun at the 'moving pictures.'"

-from the Annual Report of the New York Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children, 1909

Consider yourself warned.

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