If you failed to put this under the tree for the kids a few weeks back, perhaps you can get a post-Xmas discount?  Story here:

Liberal and progressive Christian groups say a new computer game in which
players must either convert or kill non-Christians is the wrong gift to give
this holiday season and that Wal-Mart, a major video game retailer, should yank it off its shelves.

The Campaign to Defend the Constitution and the Christian Alliance for
Progress, two online political groups, plan to demand today that Wal-Mart dump
Left Behind: Eternal Forces, a PC game inspired by a series of  Christian
novels that are hugely popular, especially with teens.

The series by Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins is based on their
interpretation of the Bible’s Book of Revelation and takes place after the
Rapture, when Jesus has taken his people to heaven and left nonbelievers behind
to face the Antichrist. 

Left Behind Games’ president, Jeffrey Frichner, says the game actually is
pacifist because players lose "spirit points" every time they gun down
nonbelievers rather than convert them. They can earn spirit points again by
having their character pray.

"You are fighting a defensive battle in the game," Frichner, whose
previous company produced Bible software, said of combatting the Antichrist.
"You are a sort of a freedom fighter." 

A Wal-Mart spokeswoman said the retailer has no plans to pull Left Behind:
Eternal Forces from any of the 200 of Wal-Mart’s 3,800 stores that offer the
game, including just seven in California…."We have customers who are buying it and really haven’t received a lot
of complaints about it from our customers at this time." 

Clark Stevens, co-director of the Campaign to Defend the Constitution,
said the game is not peaceful or diplomatic. 

"It’s an incredibly violent video game," said Stevens. "Sure, there is no
blood. (The dead just fade off the screen.) But you are mowing down your enemy
with a gun. It pushes a message of religious intolerance. You can either play
for the ‘good side’ by trying to convert nonbelievers to your side or join the
Antichrist."

The Rev. Tim Simpson, a Jacksonville, Fla., Presbyterian minister and
president of the Christian Alliance for Progress, added: "So, under the
Christmas tree this year for little Johnny is this allegedly Christian video
game teaching Johnny to hate and kill?" 

Both groups formed in 2005 to protest what their 130,000 or so members
feel is the growing political influence and hypocrisy of the religious right.

In Left Behind, set in perfectly apocalyptic New York City, the Antichrist
is personified by fictional Romanian Nicolae Carpathia, secretary-general of
the United Nations and a People magazine "Sexiest Man Alive." 

Players can choose to join the Antichrist’s team, but of course they can
never win on Carpathia’s side. The enemy team includes fictional rock stars and
folks with Muslim-sounding names, while the righteous include gospel singers,
missionaries, healers and medics. Every character comes with a life story.

When asked about the Arab and Muslim-sounding names, Frichner said the
game does not endorse prejudice. But "Muslims are not believers in Jesus
Christ"  —  and thus can’t be on Christ’s side in the game. 

"That is so obvious," he said….

It is all "so obvious."