Iranian Video Game: Rescue Nuke Scientist

Recently, a team of hard-line students from the “Union of Students Islamic Association” have developed a game with the objective of rescuing two Iranian nuclear experts from American confinement. They describe it as a “defense against the enemy’s cultural onslaught”. This pretty much sums it up:

In “Rescue the Nuke Scientist,” U.S. troops capture a husband-and-wife team of nuclear engineers during a pilgrimage to Karbala, a holy site for Shiite Muslims, in central Iraq. Game players take on the role of Iranian security forces carrying out a mission code-named “The Special Operation,” which involves penetrating fortified locations to free the nuclear scientists, who are moved from Iraq to Israel. To complete the game successfully, players have to enter Israel to rescue the nuclear scientists, kill U.S. and Israeli troops and seize their laptops containing secret information.

Apparently it’s designed as some kind of “reply” to the free “Assault on Iran” online series:

“It is an entirely Iranian product in response to the U.S. cyber war against Iran,” Masaeli said.

While both games are definitely superfluous, it would be interesting to know how much of the game relies on Open Source code without proper credit or even usage of proprietary technology. No doubt hackers will reverse-engineer and find out as soon as it hits the market. If it ever will, that is.

Plus, will there be a Mac OS X version?

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