Are Christian games better than secular shoot’-em-ups?
Are Christian games better than secular shoot’-em-ups?
Robert Blincoe writes:
Christian e-tailer Newday … is preparing to go on a church lecture
tour warning about the dangers of video games to the nation’s youth.
Newday partner Derek
Clare is of the opinion that Doom played a big part in the Columbine tragedy, and
Carmageddon copyists caused deaths in Swansea, Wales.
Regarding the Columbine shooter, Clare said: “He was playing a game, and then
he went and played it for real.” Interestingly Newday is offering an alternative to secular violent video games. And
it has one title it reckons is a match for anything in the market, and it includes a bit
of killing but no gore. Newday gives the impression the game is right up there with
Quake III, and every kid who’s had a go on it has been hooked.
“Graphically it’s as good as anything in the secular market,” said Clare. “It’s very
playable without the violence.”
The game, a platformer, is called Catechumen. The plot is requires you to nobble
some Roman soldiers who’ve been possessed by demons. It is set in the days
when Nero ruled the Roman Empire and the Christians were being persecuted. In
fact, “A darkness was settling over Christianity, evil in nature, that threatened to
destroy the Christian religion only a few centuries after Christ founded it at the
cross.”