"The game beings with a teenage girl on a subway platform. She notices you are looking at her and asks, "can I help you with something?"
That is when you, as a player, can choose your method of assault.
With the click of your mouse, you can grope her and life her skirt. Then you can follow her aboard the train, assaulting her sister and her mother.
As you continue to play, 'friends' join in, and in a series of graphic, interactive scenes, you can corner the women, rape them again and again.
The game allows you to even impregnate a girl and urge her to have an abortion. The reason behind your assault, explains the game, is that the teenage girl has accused you of molesting her on the train. The motive is revenge.
When does a video game go too far?"
I don't even know what to say. I mean, it's horrible on so many levels; I don't know where to begin. It's just sickening. But the question asked in the news article is a good one, and approaches a question we asked when discussing the Super Columbine Massacre RPG in class. When does something become so morally repugnant that it's considered 'too far,' beyond even the realms of the controversial, experimental, and the avant-garde?
I've always been a big supporter of a free and open internet, and the uncensored exchange of information and ideas, but this makes me wonder if there are, perhaps, limits to freedom of expression. Do games like RapeLay go too far? What are the implications of an uncensored, unpoliced internet?
RapeLay can downloaded free here: http://isohunt.com/torrent_details/94626489/rapelay?tab=summary
Did you really feel it necessary to put a link to download the game in?
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ReplyDeleteI can't believe that something like this even exists. It is so incomprehensible and immoral that I am without words to describe my shock. Unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteThe link is absolutely essential to this post, in my view, especially insofar as it is included at the end of the post.
ReplyDeleteIt forces each reader to really consider the questions posed immediately above it. And then it says, mutely and without judgment, "If you know the answers, if you are SURE you know the answers, here is the artifact."
It is a hell of a political statement, in my view.