YOU'LL NEVER FIND a
nice Arab in the movies. Likewise, on your PC or
console, you'll most likely take on the role of some
heroic marine, busting bad-ass Iraqis or annihilating
Afghans.
So you'll suffer the shock of role-reversal if you
pick up a game called Underash from your local PC World.
Published by Syrian publishing house Dar al-Fikr,
Underash seeks to "counterbalance the poisonous ideas
conveyed by American video games," project director
Hussan Salem told the French newswire AFP. In the game,
you play Ahmed, a young Palestinian stone-thrower,
caught up in a daily battle with Israeli tanks.
It's the Middle East's first 3D game and its also the
first to deal with the growing violence of the intifada.
"We aspire to peace," publisher told AFP, "We are
simply telling the story of a people uprooted from his
homeland, whose children are killed."
You can download a demo of the game here. µ