In case you didn’t already know… Except when it comes to American “shooter” computer games, of course, “computer games as a medium are often quick to be judged without being more closely examined.” So that’s what I’m about to do now.
Sure, there seems to be a little token outrage here and there, but for the most part no one over here seems all too terribly beunruhigt (troubled) now that the German online game 1378(km) (the name refers to the length of the old Cold War German-German border, by the way) finally went online last week. This game is, well, German after all so it must be, I dunno, OK. Right?
The aim of the game? Some players are East German border guards with guns and other players are East German refugees trying to escape to the West. Get the picture? It’s quite a vivid one actually. But don’t worry, it’s politically correct political incorrectness, I’ve been told. More or less. I think.
“1378(km) does not force someone playing the border soldiers to shoot the refugees. Players are left with the freedom of choice. You are only able to win 1378(km) when you do not shoot. The rules of the game are inspired by the situation at the former Inner German Border. Border camps, death strips, and orders to shoot are what make the game brutal.”
Only in Germany, I tell ya.
Observing Hermann 
The real Mc Coy here. Looks like they´re gonna talk themselves to death on screen – live, just like in ARD and ZDF. Hope nobody get´s depressed. This is real on-the-job training for Sozial- and Kommunikationskompetenz.
The game will be boring, much better on screen was last night´s shoot-em-up movie in 3SAT with Barbara Stanwyck and Ray Milland in “California”.
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