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Uncategorized Monday, May 9th 2011 at 9:42 am

Osama bin Laden’s Abbottabad Hideout Now Has a Playable Counter-Strike Map

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The line between video games and reality continues to blur: A week after President Obama told Americans in an emergency broadcast that Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden had been killed by Navy SEALs in a compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, there’s now a playable map in first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Source modeled after that very compound. The map is available for download at GameBanana, and “may be used as a base for a bomb or hostage map at a later stage,” according to its description.

The map’s creator writes:

What alot of people don’t seem to understand is that the only thing this map has in common with Osama is location. I can see how people would think it is in bad taste, but honestly if that’s your opinion you may as well protest the whole game (as well as many others).

(GameBanana via GamePron via Slashdot, Kotaku)

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  • http://twitter.com/juln Julian

    How is this blurring “the
    line between video games and reality”, precisely? Because it’s in a video game and is patterned after reality… hmm, think I’ve run into that before.

  • Anonymous

    @Julian fair enough — i was thinking about the rapidity with which this video-game like real-life situation found itself translated into a video game, and the (possibly made up) bunch of stories on the Internet about people playing Call of Duty and killing terrorists, etc. right when the news broke. certainly debatable, but I think there’s a decent-sized contingent of people who can’t hear news like this without thinking about video games.

  • Senor Chang

    Its interesting in a funny and novel kind of way… as a gamer its very cool for something like this to be created so quickly.

    “video-game like real-life situation”? I don’t get that at all. No offense, but that mere phrase displays a serious problem with grasping reality. The only time there is ever a genuine ‘video game like real-life situation’ is when an unstable person goes crazy on a killing rampage with a bunch of guns… and even then, a real, protective gamer would point out that the person was crazy, whether influenced by gaming or not. A military situation is a military situation, there is nothing ‘video game like’ about it. A video game can be a military-like situation, but not vice versa. Or am I just taking the term to literally? I mean, a man goes nuts on an LA freeway and a high speech chase ensues… you would call that a ‘video game like situation’? why? When high speed chases are practically a common event in California? ‘Life like video game situation’ I understand, but the other way around makes no sense to me. Not unless I have to jump some flaming barrels to save a girl from a giant monkey…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_2OZQHMX5ZQVU7DAYQY5Z74SETI Kj

    Why does everybody have a huge paragraphe of nothingness?