Media Watch: ‘Playing Gods’ Game Satirizes Religious Violence
The recipe for mainstream media coverage of board games remains the same as always: Choose some combination of sex, violence and religion, mix, then serve. Here’s an excerpt from an article published on USAToday.com:
Playing Gods: The Board Game of Divine Domination bills itself as “the world’s first satirical board game of religious warfare.”
Three-inch plastic figurines include Jesus bashing people with a cross, Moses slugging away with the tablets of the Ten Commandments, the Buddha with a machine gun, and a turbaned fellow with a bomb and a dagger vaguely hinting at Mohammed, all to be set loose to “force the people of the world to worship you.”
There’s no other satirical board game of religious warfare? Really?
Posted by W. Eric Martin on Nov 18, 2008 at 06:00 AM in Game News, Media Watch / 750
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