Outrage over ‘horrendous’ Active Shooter video game that lets children play the role of a gunman on a murder spree at school
Players can choose to play as either a SWAT team member or gunman in a school
The video game creator has promised to add a ‘civilian survival mode’ soon
Active Shooter goes on sale less than a month after the Santa Fe school shooting
Anti-gun violence charity Infer Trust said described the game as ‘horrendous’ and in ‘bad taste’ given the recent mass shootings in the US
By AARON BROWN
DAILYMAIL.COM
28 May 2018
A blood-thirsty new video game that encourages players to take part in a school shooting has triggered outrage online.
The upcoming game, Active Shooter, lets players choose between taking on the role of a SWAT team member trying to stop an ongoing school shooting — or the role of the shooter themselves.
Those who play as the shooter will be shown a tally of the number of civilians and police officers they have managed to kill during their simulated shooting spree.
Anti-gun violence charity Infer Trust has described the game as ‘horrendous’ and in ‘bad taste’ given the recent mass shootings in the US.
‘Pick your role, gear up and fight or destroy!’ the description on the Active Shooter listing declares.
‘Only in “Active Shooter”, you will be able to pick the role of an Elite S.W.A.T team member or the actual shooter.
‘Depending on the role, your objective might be to protect and extract or hunt and destroy.’
The developer has promised to add a ‘civilian survival mode’ shortly after launch, which will challenge players to survive for as long as possible inside a school environment with a gunman on the loose.
Anti-gun violence charity Infer Trust has called on Valve – the company behind the Steam online games store, where Active Shooter will be available to purchase – to take the title down before it goes on sale worldwide, on June 6.
A spokesperson for Infer Trust told the BBC: ‘It’s in very bad taste. There have been 22 school shootings in the US since the beginning of this year.
‘It is horrendous. Why would anybody think it’s a good idea to market something violent like that, and be completely insensitive to the deaths of so many children?
‘We’re appalled that the game is being marketed.’
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