NarcoGuerra Tackles The War On Drugs

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Developer GameTheNews.net

Publisher GameTheNews.net

Platform PC and iOS

Release Date Out Now

Newsgame developer GameTheNews.net, today released it’s latest offering; a game about the War on Drugs in Mexico entitled NarcoGuerra .  GameTheNews.net caused a huge debate following Apple’s controversial decision to reject Endgame:Syria from the App Store.  This new game examines the ongoing conflict from the perspective of the Mexican authorities trying to stamp out the drug trade within their borders.  In NarcoGuerra  the player must attempt to retake Mexico’s regions from cartels while also dealing with corruption within the police force itself.

 

 

As part of the global War on Drugs, the conflict in Mexico escalated around 2008 and since that point the human cost has been very high, with over 80,000 people having  been killed.  Rawlings defends the use of this as subject matter for a game, “Better that we are talking about this topic and why it is happening, whatever the medium being used, than we turn a blind eye and pretend it is not going on.  Games are part of the way we understand the world we live in and I’m really proud of the work we’ve done on this game as it engages people while expanding that global conversation.”

The game’s designer, Tomas Rawlings remarked, “The War on Drugs has been going for over 40 years now and we wanted to explore why that is.  In reflecting the world around us a singer might write a song, a filmmaker produces a documentary and a journalist writes an article, as games developers we express our interest via games.  But just because our form of expression is through games, this doesn’t mean we take the subject any less seriously.  This game aims to engage players in the issue and get them to think about why this war is still going on despite the billion spent on it.”

 

 

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