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Left Behind: Eternal Forces is set in the future when the faithful have been gathered up and ascended to Heaven during the Rapture. In the chaos that follows, the Antichrist has taken the reigns of power at the United Nations and is gathering the countries of the world under his banner. But a small resistance, the Tribulation Forces, have formed to oppose Satan's legions.Along with the gameplay twist of converting "secular/neutral" units to fight for either good or evil, Left Behind Games promises "the most realistic representation of New York City ever seen in a game," and the developer scanned 500 city blocks to render New York in-game.Left Behind Games expects to release Eternal Forces some time between Christmas 2005 and Easter 2006. We'll be back with more as details are revealed.
Along with the gameplay twist of converting "secular/neutral" units to fight for either good or evil, Left Behind Games promises "the most realistic representation of New York City ever seen in a game," and the developer scanned 500 city blocks to render New York in-game.
Left Behind Games expects to release Eternal Forces some time between Christmas 2005 and Easter 2006. We'll be back with more as details are revealed.
Remember that South Park ep where Kenny plays the Heaven/Hell RTS on his PSP? Something like that, maybe, only with FAR more Kirk Cameron and really, REALLY conservative idealogues for heroes.
you can order it here, thirty bucks american.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:18 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:22 (twenty years ago)
― Trayce (trayce), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:24 (twenty years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:31 (twenty years ago)
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:34 (twenty years ago)
― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 30 June 2005 02:36 (twenty years ago)
Scanned? Like with a flatbed scanner the size of Rhode Island?
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:02 (twenty years ago)
hee hee. Just like the real place!
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:06 (twenty years ago)
― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:08 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:11 (twenty years ago)
― shanecavanaugh (shanecavanaugh), Thursday, 30 June 2005 03:23 (twenty years ago)
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:24 (twenty years ago)
score! this is what i've always wanted to do in a video game.
― sleep (sleep), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:25 (twenty years ago)
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:30 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:32 (twenty years ago)
actually, i meant this in terms of whether you'd actually SEE any in the game; or if its just a buncha smiling straight white damned folks running around...
― kingfish (Kingfish), Thursday, 30 June 2005 04:35 (twenty years ago)
I'm hoping you'll be able to tune a selection of Xtian Rock stations when you get into a car.
― robster (robster), Thursday, 30 June 2005 10:57 (twenty years ago)
― gunther heartymeal (keckles), Thursday, 30 June 2005 11:39 (twenty years ago)
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/2005/07/lb_a_less_graph.html
...The standard reporting on the Left Behind game's upcoming release had me pounding my head against the wall. Take the following from MSNBC:Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have written more than a dozen novels for the series, which is based on prophecies from the Bible's Book of Revelation.No.No, no, no, no, no.This is the boilerplate phrase reporters always use to summarize these books. But it's not true. The Left Behind series is not "based on prophecies from the Bible's Book of Revelation." It's based on this:http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/images/dispensation_chart_1.jpgThat's not "prophecies from the Bible's Book of Revelation." It's a weird, 19th-century American fever-dream and one of the strangest, most counter-intuitive and convoluted hermeneutic schemes ever imposed on scripture.This unrecognizable, heterodox puree includes chunks of John's apocalypse, mixed together willy-nilly with the stranger bits of Daniel, Ezekiel and the minor prophets and slices of St. Paul's meditations on death and Christ's warnings of judgment. It also includes lots of other things, like numerology, an aversion to historical context and whole passages apparently taken from the AD&D Monster Manual...
Authors Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins have written more than a dozen novels for the series, which is based on prophecies from the Bible's Book of Revelation.
No.
No, no, no, no, no.
This is the boilerplate phrase reporters always use to summarize these books. But it's not true. The Left Behind series is not "based on prophecies from the Bible's Book of Revelation." It's based on this:
http://slacktivist.typepad.com/slacktivist/images/dispensation_chart_1.jpg
That's not "prophecies from the Bible's Book of Revelation." It's a weird, 19th-century American fever-dream and one of the strangest, most counter-intuitive and convoluted hermeneutic schemes ever imposed on scripture.
This unrecognizable, heterodox puree includes chunks of John's apocalypse, mixed together willy-nilly with the stranger bits of Daniel, Ezekiel and the minor prophets and slices of St. Paul's meditations on death and Christ's warnings of judgment. It also includes lots of other things, like numerology, an aversion to historical context and whole passages apparently taken from the AD&D Monster Manual...
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:41 (twenty years ago)
Sounds like the Patriot Act.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:52 (twenty years ago)
1. They believe that before the Rapture can happen, all Jews need to go back to Israel, thus their strong pro-israeli/anti-palestinian sentiment.2. They believe that the anti-Christ will be a charismatic World Leader, thus their strong anti-UN sentiment.
If I'm mistaken about any of these, please correct me.
― matlewis (matlewis), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
― The Ghost of Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:54 (twenty years ago)
And their mistrust of charisma.
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:55 (twenty years ago)
yup. ONE WORLD GUBMINT is the big thing. If you read thru Fred's site, he talks about that. Apparently, they based their fears on some passage about how evil will strike while peace is preached or somesuch.
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2005 18:58 (twenty years ago)
― matlewis (matlewis), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:00 (twenty years ago)
i'm curious to see how long it takes modders to hack GTA character models into the game. Would it not improve things to have Jizzy or Candy Suxxx in the fight against the Secularists?
― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 8 July 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)
http://www.leftbehindgames.com/the_games.htm
shows absolutely no gameplay, but all CGI movies. God, these things are worthless. it's like when they tried to advertise for FFVII using ONLY the cut-scenes; "see! ALL the game looks like this!"
has the odd tagline: "For those who are Left Behind(tm), the apocalypse has only begun!"
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 August 2005 07:32 (twenty years ago)
― dog latin (dog latin), Monday, 8 August 2005 09:00 (twenty years ago)
― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 8 August 2005 12:51 (twenty years ago)
and a hands-on look at the game
― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 21:37 (nineteen years ago)
― Jesus Dan (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 21:42 (nineteen years ago)
― kingfish cyclopean ice cream (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 21:44 (nineteen years ago)
America, what a country!
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 19 July 2006 21:45 (nineteen years ago)
actual release date set for the first tuesday in November
― kingfish high command (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 4 September 2006 05:52 (nineteen years ago)