Ethnic Cleansing (video game)

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“”[T]he fact that the game doesn't have "White Power-ups," in some extremely conflicting way, makes us think that they missed an opportunity.

—Larry Hester

Ethnic Cleansing is a 2002 video game developed by Resistance Records, an underground record label specializing in neo-Nazi and white supremacist "music", which is owned by the white supremacist organisation National Alliance. Based on that information and the game's title, one could probably make a guess as to the game's content and quality and not be far off.

Gameplay

Typical gameplay.

Exactly like you expected, the game is a first-person shooter in which the extremely, extremely threadbare plot concerns a Jewish takeover of the United States. (Apparently, Resistance Records didn't get the memo about the Zionist Occupation Government.) The player takes the role of either a skinhead or a klansman, who, operating out of a crack house, runs through a ghetto killing blacks and Mexicans before descending into a subway to kill Jews. They eventually reach the "Jewish Control Center", where they must kill Ariel Sharon, former Prime Minister of Israel, in order to win the game.

In the game, black people are portrayed as gangbangers who make ape noises on death (the game claims these noises were "recorded using real life negroes"), Mexicans are portrayed as banditos who say "I'm gonna take a siesta now" when killed to come back again seconds later, and Jews are portrayed as Haredim who say "Oy vey!" when killed.

Explicit racist messages can be found anywhere: in the level, the brick buildings are covered with racist posters such a caricature of a Jew or a movie ad showing a white girl and a gorilla. The black gangbangers wear, on their sneakers and shirts, the word "NIGZ", the name of their gang.

The gameplay of the first level is very simple, the player will have to roam the ghetto and find the boss of the gangs causing havoc in the streets, a laughing black guy slighty bigger than the other Nigz named "Big Nig", who guards some explosives. Once Big Nig is eliminated, the player will detonate the explosives and open the entrance of the subway.

In the second level, the player will have to explore the subway, killing mainly Jews, even if, without any reason, there are some Nigz in the subway's toilets. The final boss of the second level is Ariel Sharon.

By default, the game plays a cover version of the racist band Skrewdriver's song "When the Boat Comes". Sample lyrics from said song: "Take no shit from anyone 'cause the white race rules! We'll fight the communists, 'cause communists are fools! Try to take our nations, and give 'em to the blacks! Won't take it anymore, we're gonna take our nations back! So we say: nigger, nigger, get on the boat! Nigger, nigger, row! row! row!"

Quality

“”I think the quality of this game accurately reflects how intelligent the white supremacist crowd is.

—Raptures Lost

Ghastly sentiments aside, the game is also pretty dismal from a technical perspective.

Developed using the Genesis3D engine, this broken game features hideous graphics with supremely terrible models and textures, dismal collision detection, ridiculously short draw distance (about 10 feet, making it look like you're walking in a perpetual fog and making it impossible to spot enemies before they shoot you to death), and more typical features associated with terrible games. The game's only weapon is a machine gun that has no recoil or even a proper firing animation. There are only two levels, and it crashes regularly, especially more so on modern Windows versions.

Because of the lack of the commitment by the developers, the objects of the game, like cars or barrels, will shed blood if hit by bullets, and the enemies will be unable to see you through fences.

Also, for some inexplicable reason, instead of using the W, A, S, and D keyboard configuration that every other computer game in existence uses for movement, Ethnic Cleansing uses S, Z, X, and C(???). And despite the fact that there's a keyboard configuration menu, it doesn't work.

Publicity

The Anti-Defamation League publicized the existence of the game and (being apparently somewhat unfamiliar with the basics of free and open source licensing) unsuccessfully lobbied the developers of Genesis3D to change their licensing conditions to prohibit the use of the engine to develop racist games. They have also lobbied the Interactive Digital Software Association to encourage its members to adopt such policies.

Stuff Magazine named Ethnic Cleansing the 40th most controversial video game of all time in January 2003. In 2010, UGO ranked it as the #1 most racist video game in history.

The game was featured in an episode of the History Channel documentary series Gangland that focused on skinhead gangs.

Getting the game

As you can probably guess, this isn't a game you can just pick up at your corner video game store. It can only be ordered directly from Resistance Records' website. For $14.88. These days, of course, you might also be dumb, bored, or curious enough to download it illegally for free on torrent indexes and the Internet Archive. (Though you'd still likely be wasting storage space.^{[citation NOT needed]})

Sequels

The game has spawned three even more spectacularly unsuccessful and stupid sequels, White Law, ZOG's Nightmare, and ZOG's Nightmare 2. The gameplay of the latter is slightly better and the racist message is slightly toned down — as in, instead of killing non-white civilians, you kill non-white soldiers. Resistance Records wanted to create an entire series of games based on The Turner Diaries, but this seems to have fallen through.

In a nutshell

It's racist and very badly made. 0/10 not worth $0.01 let alone $14.88.

See also

• Billy the Heretic, its webcomic equivalent.
• Racial Holy War, its role-playing game equivalent.

External links

• See the Wikipedia article on Ethnic Cleansing (video game).
• Ethnic Cleansing, TVTropes
• Resistance Records, Metapedia