The Club

Great review, with the exception of the the usual ultra-bias against Christians, of course...

Shame this isn't getting much attention in the states. It was getting some real attention when it was announced and the first previews were coming out but it's sort of died down to a simmer since...

The review was only biased against one specific person - Jack Thompson!

Otherwise, it said "keep the religious nut-jobs at bay". There was no implication that I meant Christians specifically.
Indeed I am not biased against Christians specifically. Anyone who believes that magical invisible people tell them what to do and that this gives them the right to kill people who do not suffer the same delusions as them scare me.


I'm surprised. I thought it was going to stir up a hornets nest. But it seems to be slipping under the radar.

I think the problem was a lack of advertising and not releasing a steady flow of info to keep gamers engaged. I don't know...perhaps they are playing it safe by promoting the surefire moneymakers like Sonic iPod, movie tie-ins, and Wiitastic ports, but I swear I saw more ads for Wii Sega Bass Fishing than The Club if that is any indication...

I'm still not retracting my accusation of anti-Christian bias, though. I've been a reader since my senior year of high school (currently age 23), which is more than enough time to formulate an informed opinion. Admittedly, I'm sure the entire staff don't share universal views, but it I have no doubt at least a single staff member holds this point of view. Don't get me wrong, I'm not holding a grudge or have decided to boycott Spong, but with all the evidence to support my theories of your biases, my views will likely never change...

This is not a game i would ever think about buying but this review made me laugh out loud two or three times. Much better reading than most revews recently here. I like the use of repetition, it's funny.

I like the use of repetition, it's funny.

Nice.

I'm not asking you to. And I'm certainly not claiming there is no anti-Christian bias here at SPOnG. But I just don't think this review was an example of it. It was anti-censorship which by implication means it was anti Jack Thompson. And JT is a Christian.

But as much as we are anti-Christian biased, we are biased against all religions that preach tolerance but practise intolerance, that preach meekness but seek power, that tell people how to lead their lives, that refuse to lay their neck on the line and criticise bad government (how did EVERY major Christian leader stand idly by and let George W Bush claim to have a mandate from God for the illegal war in Iraq?). We are anti corporate monopoly, anti government corruption, and we are anti globalisation as a cover for exploitation.

makes me proud to be a reader, so it does. i think religion is disgusting too. long live richard dawkins

oh and i might check this out, sounds like a nice slice of fun

Soo...the plot is exactly like Manhunt, except no one is filming it, you're killing a higher class of scum, they let you have a gun, and its actually a good game?

Just to go on record, the obscure splinter sect of Pastafarianism (centered aound the message of the Prophet Sean, and his Revalation that splitscreen videogames are abhorrent in the sight of the FSM...see, screenlooking is a sin, and since splitsceen games tempt the faithful to sinfulness they are an abomination.) I belong to does not preach meekness, and we honor the commandments to slay the infidels mostly in the breach, or if we think we can get away with it...oh, yeah, Jesuits, those are worth bonus points, especially if you make them walk the plank...

I also heard it wasn't God, it was the International Banking Conspiracy...I actually might believe that.

Except there's not real hunting. Men keep jumping out at you, and you shoot them. It's more like that old game "Carnival". The game keep lining them up, you keep knocking them down. And there's all the chaining bonuses malarky too.

It is fun. In a dumb, keep on blasting way. If stealthing bores you, and headshots turn you on. And if you think shooting things is cool and hard, this is the game for you.

It's morally repugnant, but in a fun way.

That'd be the way I would like my eventual theological dictatorship of North America to be remembered...by the Christians at least...run America like the Mob ran Vegas...I'd clone Don Rickles to be my Ambassadors Plenipotentary.

Oops, just looking over the newest additions to Spong...I see what appears to be videogame glorifying all things Conquistador, behind a very thin veil.

May have to recalibrate the moral repugnancy scale...looks like the "New World" may be populated by subhuman monsters who want civilizing...

Hell with it, I'm going to issue a fett-wa.

Let it be known to all true believers that the game Sword of the New World:Granado Espada is taboo, and all those associated with its production, distribution, and promotion shall be barred from the Stripper Factories, and all but the American Beer Volcanoes. This holy edict shall remain in effect until and unless Niel Young is invited to perform "Cortez the Killer" in front of the Spanish Legislature.

Ra-men.