Christians condemn hell game.

"The sky is the hall of fame, hell has no reset button!" With Christian slogans clamor of the protesters at E3 video game trade show of the Game "Dante's Inferno", the whip manufacturer Electronic Arts as an electronic anti-Christ - so radical that some guerrilla marketing scents.

 

"Hell is not a game!" scanned the group in front of the Fair Grounds in Los Angeles, "the cross is not a weapon!" call and time again "we say no, inferno!". Young people walk past them, they wear T-shirts on which the titles of video games are. Some grin, many zücken their digital camera, because it is good fodder for Flickr, Facebook or Twitter.

But for the handful of protesters outside the entrance of the Exhibition Games' Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) here is no joke: they are outraged about the new video game "Dante's Inferno," and one of its in the gray sky of Los Angeles stretched plates have it was written, to whom they are here on the streets against the company Electronic Arts, the producer of the game - against the "Electronic Anti-Christians".

Disgusting and sometimes extremely distasteful

Inside the exhibition hall, the visitors in the mean time queuing up to behind closed doors at a first glance "Dante's Inferno" to be allowed to throw. In the game, which should have been inspired by Dante Alighieri "Divine Comedy" - or at least a fact-like name, because "in the comedy itself is, unfortunately, hardly any action against," as producer Jonathan Knight says to the audience. What he says of course action, because this live his game.

So he has a little story hinzuerfunden. The hero has to Dante through the circles of hell to fight to his beloved Beatrice to save. And by monster aufspießt them a Holy Cross in the body is pushing, while the brightly lit by giving them the aufschlitzt abdomen or the head abreißt. "He goes through his inner hell," says Knight, and the visitors nod. Nobody is appalled when Dante kills babies who attacked him with blades. The audience will not bother, that the game is very brutal, disgusting in many places and in some extremely distasteful.

The demonstrators, before the show, the "preacher of salvation and eternal damnation virtual" call to decry their leaflets also said that the babies are not baptized. In addition, Electronic Arts accuse them of witchcraft, among other things, the homage of Satan and sexual perversion. "Share your Playstation against Praystation" stands on the leaves of the young visitors as a souvenir like to be taken. "Our high score is in heaven", called on the group and "all hell has no reset button," while Christian Kidd explains why they are here: "We do not want anyone to hell as a place glorifies that could be made fun visited, "says the 36-year-old to blogs ONLINE and asks:" Why does it need a video game which is my religion defiled? Why Satan superheroes to do? We have nothing against players, but who needs such a game? "

The producer must be grinning

Inside the hall, the producer of "Dante's Inferno" a little grin when asked if he already covered by the protests against his game have heard: "Is it already", he says, "but comedy Alighieri is 700 years old and a fictional work - in other words exactly what our game is. I see no controversy. " It is his grin even wider - a little too wide even as if the demo in front of the hall just a campaign by Electronic Arts in order for a little hype, and to ensure that over the next year until the game is being published.

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Web address on the leaflet of the demonstrators was a U.S. company acquired, based on domain Reservations specializes - in August 2007. In development is "Dante's Inferno", according to EA only been about a year. A bit suspicious seems too horrible-looking Web site but the group - there is both a trailer for the game as well as the official promotional page of the game links.

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Christian Kidd would be the accusation that secretly for EA to advertise, outraged by the show. And also that it would be worthwhile, with the producer about his reservations to speak. The activist is a realist. He does not believe that many video player understand what he is. "But a single soul to be saved," he says - "that it would have been worthy to be here."

Electronic Arts Germany wanted to demonstrate on request from blogs ONLINE not comment on it.