Patriotic Tetris

The Ministry of Culture in early October decided to take up the production of patriotic computer games . You can’t call the original idea itself - earlier it has already attracted the Ministry of Defense and Dmitry Medvedev. The fact that this time the Ministry of Culture turned to a patriotic game of Game Station should not surprise anyone. The Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, known for his struggle against the falsification of domestic history, is headed by the Russian Military Historical Society, which will oversee the production of “correct” games.

In 2011, the then President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev proposed to create a Russian analogue of the network multiplayer game “World of Warcraft” . In September of the same year, the Ministry of Education and Science organized a competition to create a engine for such a game. The reward amounted to 90 million rubles, but the competition did not take place due to the lack of participants. In addition to legislators and the Ministry of Defense, in the field of the creation of patriotic games, the Russian Orthodox Church managed to be noted. For example, in October 2011, the Yekaterinburg and Verkhoturskaya diocese released a disc with games for students of the fifth or seventh grades called “All Russia remembers about Borodin's Day”.

Not too successful experience of the Ministry of Defense and the Ministry of Education and Science clearly does not discourage Medinsky - however, and now they are now more serious, the development of domestic games along with the Ministry of Industry and Trade is not limited. Foreign games, in which they will find a discrepancy between historical reliability and “discrediting national images”, will be censored. It is unlikely that this will greatly delight Russian publishers and localizers, but he will surely increase traffic on torrent trackers (in Russia they usually prefer not to buy, but to download games).

From manufacturers of patriotic games, it is necessary to “realistically and with maximum historical reliability to reflect events, preventing the creation of a negative image of a Russian warrior”. The first exemplary-patriotic game is intended to be released in 2014, by the centenary of the beginning of the First World War.

What games can be prohibited based on the criteria of censors, and what can the creators of new military-patriotic games from the Ministry of Culture be equal to? The most nonpatriotic and patriotic games are in the collection of colta.ru.

The most nonpatriotic games

Company of Heroes 2

The first object of the struggle of the authorities and patriotic players with distortions of historical truth and the denigration of the image of a Russian soldier. The game published in the summer of 2013 disappeared from the shelves of Russian stores after over 17 thousand people signed a petition about the removal of this computer strategy from the sale. Their indignation was caused by the fact that Soviet soldiers in the game burned houses and shot partisans. Yes, and the main character of the introductory video for the Soviet campaign, Lev Abramovich Isakovich, sits in the camp for desertion and meets the former commander with an exclamation: "Bl ***, bitch son!" (almost without an accent).

KGB

Moscow, August 1991. The Soviet Union survives the last days, and you are invited to become an agent of the KGB named Maksim Mikhailovich Rukov , to hunt drug dealers and at the same time plunge into the world of political intrigues. Other patriots, maybe, would like to play for the KGB agent, but their eyes probably won’t make names like “ kursk Street " , girls who admit that " Enjoy casual Sex ” , shabby gate and delusional posters. Or uncle of the main character, uncle Vanya , who is carried in a wheelchair, Yegor Egorovich in a Kosovorka, powerful and silent (his tongue was once cut off). Meanwhile, the game itself is interesting and quite complicated, especially because of time limits. It was developed in 1992 by the French from the legendary Cryo Interactive , which created a lot of quests of the "Golden Age" of computer games. You can play the quest by downloading it here or here .

Comand & Conquer: Red Alert Games series

Trash and cargo, a wild cocktail of stereotypes, a stalinist nightmare (outdated spoiler: Joseph Vissarionovich is killed). There are also the Kirov nuclear airships here, books with roots of Braft Ass (Hello, Big Russian Encyclopedia), Russian fighting bears and much more. For all its absurdity (or rather, just because of her), the series is very popular among young and not very young fans of the USSR, offering them a completely cozy fantastic reality. Well, where else can you bomb a statue of freedom or contemplate the charms of Soviet beauties, protracted in latex ( Red Alert 3 was even accused of excess)? So this series of games can be safely moved to the top of patriotic. But after all, experts of the military-historical society are probably terrible bores and will not allow you to make the same cheerful trash. A pity, he would have a chance of success.

Shooters (shooters) with "Russian" details

In the first -person shooter, the Urban Terror also gets Stalin: here he is generally depicted without a mustache. Other Russian posters delight the eye no less. In games Series Call of Duty Stalin is found on the Steel cigarette packs. But the main role is played by the word "x*y". It is everywhere.

Games with a colorful Russian mafia

It is unlikely that domestic censors will be able to perceive such characters as the criminal boss Boris Chekhov from Vampire the Masquarade: Bloodlines (the vocabulary includes: “Little Poster”, “Thy Submissions” and other interesting phrases) or Russian mafiosi from the Grand Theft Auto series.

Freedom Fighters

Following the covenants of Lavrenty Pavlovich Beria, the Soviets captured America, and the main character will have to lead the partisan struggle against the enemy. Russian soldiers talk and behave in about the same way as the mafia from the previous paragraph.

Total War Games series

Popular historical (rather conditionally) strategies created by the British from Creative Assembly , leave a dual impression. Although, if desired, here you can win the Russians half a world and turn everyone to Orthodoxy, numerous details spoil this rainbow picture. Either the Cossacks are called the Kazakhs, then St. Petersburg exists in 1700 and belongs to the Swedes, then the characters can call a fur coat Petrovich, the devil or goat from Bobruisk (which, however, does not contradict history-there were names like ghouls and generic nicknames of goats and cabbage in Rus').

Games for patriotic education

Patriotic Tetris

The unconditional leader of our rating, an example of simplicity and laconicism with a star-camouflage background. Back in June 2010, at the joint collegium of the Ministry of Defense, Prosecutor General, the Ministry of Sportsurism and Ministry of Education and Science, Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Sobyanin called the existing ways of patriotic education of youth ineffective and “mild”. Patriotic computer games turned out to be very useful-the state secretary of the Ministry of Defense Nikolai Pankov suggested that the children "play not for the Americans, but for the Russians." It was supposed to finance the development of such games through state order. In the end, neither colorful shooters, nor large-scale computer strategies appeared. Instead, on the information portal of the Ministry of Defense, you can find a modest section "Games" .

Patriotic "sapper"

The list of original military-patriotic games on the portal of the Ministry of Defense is not limited to tetris. There is also a “sapper” here, for some reason elusively reminiscent of the main joy of office workers (along with the solitaire “Kosynka”). And also, of course, with stars, camouflage (applied using an elementary photoshop brush) and “army” degrees of complexity.

Patriotic sea battle

Finally, the company Tetris and Sapar is another rare game: naval battle. According to experts , even if the Ministry of Defense independently developed these three games, each could not cost more than 320 thousand rubles. And the portal of the Ministry of Defense cost 36 million rubles.

Crusader Kings II: The Old Gods

Foreign games are not entirely hopeless, although they are far from the Games of the Ministry of Defense. For example, in addition to the game of Swedish developers from Paradox Interactive can play no less for Rurik himself. Patriots-naosyans are especially pleased, sacrificing Odin or Yarila Christian missionaries and rebellious sons. True, this will not like the Russian Orthodox Church - but, having a sulcin with pagan holidays, you can accept Christianity and have a boost of the Rurikovich dynasty. Just like in history.

"Confrontation: coercion to the world"

Propaganda commercial games on fresh military topics are produced not only in Russia. But in order to make them so badly and so badly, you need to try (not to mention the ethical side of this whole story). In August 2008, an armed conflict occurred in South Ossetia, and in early December of the same year, agent developers had already released this masterpiece in hot pursuit, riveted on the outdated engine of the 2002 sample. We quote the official announcement on the publisher’s website: “In the yard - 2009. Only a few months have passed after the August operation to force the world. Georgia decided on a new attempt to capture Abkhazia and Ossetia. NATO Bloc did not stand aside, putting Poland as its representative, as well as Ukraine, which took the blockade of the Black Sea Fleet in Sevastopol. Russia could not stand aside and made a response ... Features: the area of ​​the North Caucasus and Europe in all its glory. ” Wikipedia helpfully adds that “the developers were assisted by the participants in the real events of August 2008,” and “the soundtrack for the game, based on the work of Yu. Klinsky (“ It’s time Home ”-“ Gas Sector ”), created by the Rock band The Hellzippies .” What else is necessary for happiness.

"Alpha: Anti -Terror"

The project, which was announced almost as the first realistic special forces simulator, in 2005 entered the market raw. The general director of Mistland in one of the first interviews declared the following: “We are doing alpha because we are patriots in the good sense of the word (you see, when you say so, we have to get better, because the word is spat on all kinds of freaks).” And again, we turn to official announcements: “Employees of the legendary Alpha and Vympel detachments were involved in the creation of the project.” Slogan: “The legendary Alpha group in action - it's time to clean the planet!” Everything would be fine, except that the constant exclamations of "bitch!" And “I continue to graze the natives”, perhaps, are not very suitable for the education of the younger generation, because they are now baking about his morality.

"In the rear of the enemy"

An example of a fairly successful series of games developed by Ukrainians from Best Way . One trouble, you can play for the Wehrmacht soldier - not quite patriotic. The games of the Ministry of Culture still cannot be. Touches the voice acting of the English -speaking version - there everyone speaks with the accent of the provincial Count of Dracula or the "Soviet" characters Red Alert . However, this is exactly what they expect from the Russian game.

"Empire: Time of Troubles"

Not a very successful attempt to make a domestic clone of famous historical strategies, borrowing ideas from Europa Universalis and the Total War series. The very topic of the Time of Troubles for patriotic games is gracious, it is not for nothing that Minin and Pozharsky appear on the Day of National Unity on posters. A funny detail: for illustrations in the game, medieval miniatures were used, sometimes completely not suitable in time, plot and style (for example, a slightly shielded scene from the French allegorical novel of the 13th century on a miniature of the XV century, where the personification of vice kills the enemy, illustrates the attack on Russian nobles).

Fashion for the Total War series

In the last list, it has already been said that the “historical” strategies from British developers in Russia are popular, but the image of Russians in these games of patriots saddened. The output was found-modifications from enthusiasts (fashion) with proud names like “Rusichi: Total War ”,“ Svyatoslav ”,“ Yaroslavichi ”,“ Prince of Light and Darkness ”or“ Power Steel ”. They are usually created by Internet users with nicknames Khlador, Lyutobors, and so on. On the one hand, they often correct the clothes and weapons of units according to pictures from albums in military history, replace the names of cities and regions with more reliable, on the other hand, these mods are monstrously overloaded with details and are very funny. For example, if the author is a neopagan, then he will no longer be confused by the name of the Balda, and Prince Svyatoslav will be instructed by the priest Luchezar Murin.