Hunting Yankee: North Korea releases shooter video game where US soldiers are the enemy
The game looks similar to other first-person shooter games such as Counter-Strike and Call of Duty
North Koreans are many things, but they’re not subtle.
Which may help to explain the new 3-D shooting game Hunting Yankee.
It’s a “fighting game of shooting and knocking down Yankees with a sniper gun ... behind enemy lines,” according to Arirang-Meari, a state-run news agency.
The game looks similar to other first-person shooter games such as Counter-Strike and Call of Duty. The twist: players take aim at US soldiers.
The game was first spotted by the English-language NK News. The developer was not named.
Hunting Yankee joins a smattering of recently produced war-related games. A couple of weeks ago, the North Korean Advanced Technology Research Institute released a collection of offerings which can be played on smartphones. In Confrontation War, users destroy submarines with “depth bombs, nuclear depth bombs, and anti-submarine rockets.” In Guardian, users simulate naval warfare with “cannons, multiple rocket launchers, and mines”.
