Who needs photos? Kill Osama yourself in new videogame

by Steven Mostyn - May 6 2011, 08:09

With the U.S. government choosing to withhold shocking photographic evidence of Osama Bin Laden’s demise, those looking to glory in the death of Al Qaeda’s infamous leader have now been handed a similarly distasteful outlet.

More pointedly, independent software developer Kuma Games has created The Death of Osama Bin Laden, a brand new episode of its contentious KumaWar series, which enables players to participate in virtual re-enactments of real-world military missions.

Episode #107 of KumaWar will be released tomorrow (Saturday, May 7) and, according to its creators, it “puts you behind the trigger that takes down Osama Bin Laden. Storm his mansion. Kill his guards. Don’t expect him to come quietly…”

Speaking with gaming blog Kotaku about the studio’s latest offering, Kuma Games boss Brian Halper said the prior 106 episodes of KumaWar represented a story without an end—a shortfall conveniently solved by the death of Al Qaeda’s terrorist mastermind.

“It was a matter of personal decision between myself and the development and writing staff to say we can’t close the door on Kuma War 2 until we’ve told this absolutely critical last story,” he said.

If celebrating the death of Osama Bin Laden by playing The Death of Osama Bin Laden somehow fails to fill the gap left by the recent refusal to show the world his bullet-riddled corpse… then you can always try Osamagotchi by DrugFilms, or Spec Ops: War on Terrorism from MiniClips.

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