Anti-Japan War Online

I have a driving urge to try out this MMORPG. It sounds hilarious. I love how incredibly non-PC it is.

They should have timed its release on the same day as some sort of PR event in Japan denouncing the US for the nuking of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as a little "Don't forget that you raped and killed and burned a bunch of us, too." Man, would that be ugly.

I always forget how much lingering animosity there is between China and Japan until I hear about things like this. Check it out:

"PowerNet Technology, a Chinese online gaming firm, has developed a new online game in cooperation with the China Communist Youth League (CCYL) named "Anti-Japan War Online," which will begin commercial operation by the end of 2005, a PowerNet official said Tuesday.

"The game will allow players, especially younger players, to learn from history. They will get a patriotic feeling when fighting invaders to safeguard their motherland," a PowerNet Project Manager, surnamed Liu, told Interfax.

The background for "Anti-Japan War Online" is the Japanese invasion of China during World War II, from 1937 through 1945. Players are able to play simulations of key battles, but will only be able to play as the Chinese side."

http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=4907&slug=INTERNET-ONLINE%20GAME-JAPAN-POWERNET