Ethnic Cleansing (video game)

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Ethnic Cleansing
Single-player

Ethnic Cleansing (also known as Ethnic Cleansing: The Game) is a 2002

Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith and has been considered as one of the most controversial and most racist games. Resistance Records sought to release a series of games based on the novel The Turner Diaries
and published White Law in 2003.

Gameplay

racial stereotypes. Here, the player is facing a Latino enemy in a sombrero and poncho
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prime minister of Israel, who attacks the player with a rocket launcher.[2][7]

Development and release

Ethnic Cleansing was produced by the

open-source 3D game engine, and its Reality Factory set of tools.[10] Using an existing engine allowed for the game's creation with only minor modifications to the source code.[10] D. Bryan Ringer designed and programmed the game using the Visual Basic and C++ programming languages, while Bob Hawthorne provided additional video and sound elements, including the voices for Jews.[11] The game was released by Resistance Records, a record label owned by the National Alliance, on January 21, 2002, coinciding with Martin Luther King Jr. Day.[2][12] The label sold the game on CD-ROM via its website for US$14.88.[6] Several thousand copies were manufactured and shipped by Rainbo Records until the company severed its ties with Resistance Records in June 2002.[13]

Reception

Marcus Brian highlighted Ethnic Cleansing in his report on racist video games for the ADL and said it was "the most sophisticated racist game available online".

white nationalists, and they found the game to be in bad taste and potentially harmful for their movement due to the violence it depicts.[17] In a retrospective for Vice, Paweł Mączewski noted that "the game itself is so tragic in terms of execution that even neo-Nazis would not want to play it".[18]

Complex considered it the most racist game in 2010 and 2012, respectively.[25][26] According to Mic's Ryan Khosravi, it was the best-known neo-Nazi game and continued to be discussed on Stormfront, a neo-Nazi internet forum, until at least April 2017.[27] Ethnic Cleansing is explicitly prohibited to be shown on Twitch, a video game livestreaming service.[28]

Sequel

Ethnic Cleansing was advertised as the first in a series of games. The second game was to be Turner Diaries: The Game, based on Pierce's novel

people of color.[30]

References

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  3. ^ a b Solomon, Susan (December 1, 2002). "Boots and Braces". Vice. Archived from the original on September 20, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
  4. ^ a b Gibson, Ellie (July 18, 2005). "Racists launch PC game". Eurogamer. Archived from the original on April 7, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
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  9. ^ Left, Sarah (February 21, 2002). "White supremacists create racist computer games". The Guardian. Archived from the original on May 27, 2023. Retrieved September 20, 2023.
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