The 'Lamb of Comstock’: dystopia and religion in video games
In the article ‘‘The Lamb of Comstock’. Dystopia and Religion in Video Games’ I will introduce four high quality, commercially successful videogames: Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored and Brink. All these four games present a dystopian scenery as a background for an intelligent plot to critici...
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| Medienart: | Elektronisch Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Heidelberg University Publishing
2014
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Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
Jahr: 2014, Band: 5, Seiten: 162-182 |
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Bioshock
B Brink B cultural theology B Dishonored B Dystopia B Utopia B Videogames |
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| Zusammenfassung: | In the article ‘‘The Lamb of Comstock’. Dystopia and Religion in Video Games’ I will introduce four high quality, commercially successful videogames: Bioshock, Bioshock Infinite, Dishonored and Brink. All these four games present a dystopian scenery as a background for an intelligent plot to criticizes distinct modern political, philosophical and economical theories and practices: respectively the ‘hyper-capitalism’ of the Russian-American philosopher Ayn Rand, the idea of religion based American Exceptionalism, idealized industrialization and rationalism, and an ecological Apocalypse. Within these four games, religion - primarily different branches of Christianity - plays an important but often implicit role in the game narrative, sometimes supporting the dystopian scenery of the game, sometimes opposing it. In this article I will give a definition of the difficult term ‘dystopia’, introduce the four dystopian video games and demonstrate the importance of religion within the four game narratives. |
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| ISSN: | 1861-5813 |
| Enthält: | In: Online - Heidelberg journal of religions on the internet
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.11588/rel.2014.0.12163 URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-rel-121632 |