Osama bin Laden’s Pakistani compound has became a playable level for fans of online shooter Counter-Strike: Source, after a clever modder decided to depict the tyrant’s resting place.
Offering the chance for players to roam around a painstakingly-recreated version of Osama’s Abbottabad hiding spot, the creator of the map has said that he currently has no plans to turn the level into a bomb or hostage scenario ‘at a later stage’.
Posted on modding community site GameBanana by ‘Fletch’, the map has received 80,000 views in the past two days of its release.
Updating the download page this morning, the creator sought to address those that felt his map was created ‘too soon’ after Osama’s death:
‘What alot of people don’t seem to understand is that the only thing this map has in common with Osama is location. I can see how people would think it is in bad taste, but honestly if that’s your opinion you may as well protest the whole game (as well as many others).’
Whether or not the map itself is in bad taste is largely irrelevant – if anything, we’re surprised that it took seven days for someone to recreate the assassination in the first place.
Personally, we like the idea of a future full blown simulation of the raid, which upon completion turns into a PR management sim, as players attempt to convincingly alter the version of events on a daily basis for the media.
Another media outlet has suggested that having an Osama ghost roaming the map’s hallways would spice things up a little and we certainly wouldn’t disagree.
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