BEIRUT — Sidling down the mean streets of Syria with his rifle, he picks off his enemies relentlessly: Ahmed is the hero of the video game Lebanon’s Hezbollah launches on Wednesday.
The Shiite terror group is holding a ceremony and news conference in Beirut to unveil the latest production of its electronic media department, which it named “Sacred Defense – Protecting the Homeland And Holy Sites.”
“It reflects Hezbollah’s experience in Syria,” Hassan Allam, one of the game’s developers, tells AFP.
With a life of 12 hours, the first-person shooter game is a low-cost spinoff of bestseller “Call of Duty” that glorifies the group’s battles in the ongoing Syrian conflict.
The game allows for a series of different battles, including against the Islamic State jihadist group, in a variety of different locations, including Syria’s border with Lebanon.
Hezbollah, which is backed by Iran and is often considered to have more firepower than Lebanon’s own regular army, deployed fighters in Syria in 2013.
— AFP
A Lebanese man plays a computer game created by the Hezbollah terror group called “Holy Defense” in a southern suburb of Beirut on February 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Joseph Eid)
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