Polish Newspaper Expresses Outrage at Bioshock 2’s “Anti-Christian Values”

"Scandal. In the game Bioshock 2, children are used and murdered. Little girls are used like dogs looking for drugs for their masters."

Aforementioned is the wordy headline used by major regional Polish newspaper Gazeta Lubuska, which expressed its outrage at Bioshock 2 in an editorial today.

Bemoaning the game’s lack of Christian (or Catholic) values, the newspaper describes Bioshock 2’s core gameplay as the Big Daddy’s use of little girls, trapped into inhumane lives and forced to seek out drugs for their masters in a “world without rules, in a country without God, faith and no moral principles”.

The story came to the attention of the writer after one “terrified internet user” contacted them to express his disgust and disapproval of the game as his son wished to play it upon its release. “My son asked me about it (the game), but as I learned what it contained, it scared me,” he wrote in.

He had learned that in Bioshock 2, some small children extract the drugs from the bodies of dead men, and that the vast majority of the characters consisted of drug addicts (splicers) who attack the Little Sisters to attain what they want. The protagonist is the Big Daddy, who can, as he expresses his disgust, “reportedly use children.” He described the game as consisting of little more than “Drug addicts, lunatics, whose sole purpose is to acquire ‘territory’”.

Further research by the author revealed that the game was also promoting what he calls “Anti-Catholic values”, as the game is set in the city of Rapture, one devoid of rules and principles. Clearly missing the whole point of the story and its critique of Ayn Rand’s Objectivist movement, the writer asks if the game promotes Satanism and “extreme liberalism”.

Though the writer finally lauds the game for having good graphics, he can’t help but express his ‘shock’ with the game’s supposed ‘message’ and asks why such provocative content should be in the realm of video games. Clearly, video games are all made for children and thus deserve no artistic merit.

The newspaper has since asked Cenega Poland, which distributes and sells the game in the country, for a comment on the allegations.

Source: polygamia.pl