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 powerful Shia movement Hezbollah launched on Wednesday.
The Shia armed group held a ceremony and news conference in Beirut to unveil the latest production of its electronic media department, which it named “Sacred Defence — Protecting the Homeland And Holy Sites”.
“It reflects Hezbollah’s experience in Syria,” Hassan Allam, one of the game’s developers, told. 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.