Talk:Special Force (2003 video game)/Archive 1

Controversial games
This game should be linked under controversial games too. Interesting theme but Israel is smart though and won't escalate the conflict by releasing a counter-game. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Exander (talk • contribs) 10:50, 30 May 2006 (UTC)


 * I added it to Category:Controversial computer and video games. There is probably no need for a counter game, they are already available. // Liftarn — Preceding undated comment added 12:44, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Socom, Counter-Strike, and America's Army for the win!--Exander 00:36, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Sri Lankan special forces link
when I click the link to take me to the article for the Sri Lankan Special Forces, I'm taken to this page (about a special forces game), which has absolutely no relation with what I was looking for. How can this error be corrected? — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rayven1lk (talk • contribs) 06:19, 5 November 2006 (UTC)


 * I have changed the link target in the List of special forces units article so it doesn't link to here any more - it is now a redlink to an article yet to be created. FiggyBee 15:16, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Removed unsourced sentence
I removed the sentence "It carries a deliberate and specific political message, that is pro-Islamic and anti-Israel occupation." It has been tagged as an unsourced statement, and is really unnecessary, since the sourced statements below practically say as much. — Graf Bobby 17:26, 7 April 2007 (UTC)

Page Protection
who is in favor of locking this page to non-registered wikians, seeing as it is subject to almost constant vandalism?Andurz 02:15, 24 August 2007 (UTC)


 * 1) Support // Liftarn — Preceding undated comment added 09:41, August 24, 2007 (UTC)
 * 2) Support As someone who knows nothing about the subject, but has reverted vandalism to this article on more than one occasion already.  spazure  (contribs) (review) 09:44, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

the IP address committing the vandalism was warned, if it happens again I will submit a request for    protection. Andurz 18:08, 24 August 2007 (UTC)

Where to Purchase
Is ther any information on its purchasability in the Western world. The game looks fun. Basejumper2 17:27, 13 October 2007 (UTC)

It really isnt unless you love the political messege embedded in it. I dont believe you can actually get it without pirating it though anymore. --206.223.233.65 (talk) 09:55, 16 July 2008 (UTC)


 * You may be able to get Special Force 2: Tale of the Truthful Pledge. // Liftarn (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 18:29, 16 July 2008 (UTC)

"Banned in US" - no source?
I'd love to see a source for that. I wasn't previously aware of any media outright "banned" in the US. By what law or policy is this the case? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.157.154.166 (talk) 09:26, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Game reviews
Although I do not doubt that the game both deserved and received low reviews even disregarding the political message, I think that there ought to be a link to at least one such review, as unbiased and dispassionate as possible. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.65.154 (talk) 21:16, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Special Force in Korea
Korean Special Force is an online-only shooter developed in Korea, not related to the Arabic game in any way. See http://pmang.sayclub.com/specialforce/specialforce_home.nwz (in Korean, IE only). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Noirum (talk • contribs) 03:01, 21 June 2007 (UTC)

Special Force 2
|"Special Force 2" Launch

Hezbollah launches another anti-Israel computer game.

Hezbollah was set Thursday to launch a computer game highlighting the defeat of Israel in its aggressive war on Lebanon last year.

"Special Force 2: Tale of the Truthful Pledge" allows players to engage in war with Israeli soldiers and to blow up Israeli tanks.

The game was to be launched at the Hezbollah "Spider's Web" museum which opened its doors last month in Beirut's southern suburbs.

A member of the design team said "Special Force 2" was intended to give Hezbollah supporters a chance to "feel the victory as if they were taking part in attacks they were cheering for from far."

Children living in the district, like Ali and Hassan Hammiyeh, have long been looking forward to the game. "I'm eagerly awaiting Thursday to go and buy it. I want to feel like a Hezbollah struggler," said Hassan.

Bilal, owner of a nearby computer shop, said: "In the West there are computer games that introduce the Arabs as terrorists. Here, in such games, we're telling the world we're fighting our occupiers."

The game is not Hezbollah's first. In 2003 it introduced Special Force 1, which allowed players to take the part in a battle with Israeli soldiers in areas in southern Lebanon.

On the Special Force 1 box cover a message to users said: "The designers of Special Force are very proud to provide you with this special product, which embodies objectively the defeat of the Israeli enemy and the heroic actions taken by heroes of the Islamic Resistance in Lebanon."

In the new game, Hezbollah use the same concept, but this time focusing on last year's battles with Israeli soldiers in areas like Bint Jbeil and Maroun al Ras.

Israel launched a massive attack on Lebanon on July 12, which lasted 33 days, after Hezbollah guerrillas snatched two of its soldiers in a cross-border attack.

"In this game you can be a partner in the victory. Fight, resist and destroy your enemy's Merkava tank in the game of force and victory," a Hezbollah member said.

"The game features the battles that took place in southern Lebanon in July between our strugglers and the Zionists. Special Force 2 also offers mental and personal training for those who play."

According to Hezbollah, the game can be played in Arabic, English, French and Farsi.

A large crowd was expected to attend the launch at the Spider's Web museum, which has been displaying damaged Israeli military equipment and vehicles gathered by Hezbollah during the July war.

The museum's name echoes a remark from one of the rousing speeches by Hezbollah leader al-Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who said that Israel is "more feeble than a spider's web."

Ali Ahmed, a spokesman for the museum, said nearly 300,000 people had visited since it opened at the end of July. There were plans to make it a permanent museum, perhaps somewhere in southern Lebanon.

"We are expecting the crowd to be massive on Thursday when we introduced the new game in front the press," he added.

The museum is entered via a reconstructed Hezbollah bunker, where figures dressed in fatigues and holding Kalashnikovs represent Hezbollah guerrillas on the battlefield.

Photographs from the war and weapons and ammunition captured from the Israeli military are displayed, as well as pictures of dead Lebanese children in the Israeli bombings.

Some 1,200 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Lebanon, as well as 159 on the Israeli side, during the conflict.

A centrepiece of the museum is a big picture of an Israeli warship hit by Hezbollah fire, captioned by Nasrallah's televised announcement in which he said: "Watch it burn. It will sink taking with it tens of Zionist Israeli soldiers."

Hezbollah enjoys wide support in Lebanon, especially among the large Shiite Moslem community. The group is proud of thwarting Israel in its avowed objective to crush Hezbollah's military structure and release the two kidnapped Israeli soldiers.

On Tuesday, Nasrallah told a huge rally in Beirut's southern suburbs that Israel would face a "great surprise that could change the course of war and the destiny of the region" if it tried to attack Lebanon again.

Ahmad Husseini — Preceding undated comment added 17:44, 16 August 2007 (UTC)