Center Games, a small Iranian mobile games maker known for several titles, has created a new mobile game enabling users to “take revenge” against fleets of “terrorist American” warships and aircraft carriers for the assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
The game, entitled “Severe Revenge”, was released earlier this year on the Iranian Android marketplace Café Bazaar, and is described as “a family brain teaser game about taking revenge against terrorist America so that families, youth and teens can spend their time and energy fighting the enemy even while relaxing and having fun.”
The app is rated ages 10 and up. Screenshots of the game show that users are able to fire a wide variety of weapons, including missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at US fleets.
A mobile game titled "Severe Revenge" has been released on #Iran's android market @cafebazaar. It also revolves around avenging slain #IRGC commander Soleimani.https://t.co/YiO4dyPPAQ pic.twitter.com/1ufIGd3epr
— Khosro Kalbasi (@KhosroKalbasi) September 2, 2020
If mobile games aren’t your thing, another Iranian company called Iran Bazi has created a card and grid map-based board game, also called ‘Severe Revenge’, allowing up to four players to get revenge on American carriers, bases and troops.
The game, said to be suitable for players of all ages, is categorised as a ‘brain teaser/educational game’ by Digikala, an Iranian e-commerce company, and has a rating of 3.7 stars out of five based on 28 ratings, where reviewers’ main complaint seems to be the its complexity. The game is available for purchase for the equivalent of about $0.95 US.
Axis of Resistance dabbling in video/card games production: A #boardgame named "Severe Revenge" has been released in #Iran. It revolves around avenging #IRGC Quds Force Chief Soleimani who was killed in US drone strike. Available on @Digikalacom for $2. ⬇️https://t.co/dIgM2hAQ3e pic.twitter.com/5icJmfjh7t
— Khosro Kalbasi (@KhosroKalbasi) September 2, 2020
Since the January 2020 assassination of Soleimani, Iranian officials have repeatedly warned that the country has yet to “strike a reciprocal blow to the US” over the commander’s killing. Last month, Revolutionary Guard Deputy Commander for Political Affairs Yadollah Javani said the reason Iran has not retaliated against the US by killing a high-ranking American military official is because it has not been able to “find anyone who is equally valuable".
Before his death, Soleimani commanded the Revolutionary Guards’ elite Quds extraterritorial fighting force for about two decades, and in that time carried out operations against Taliban* militants in Afghanistan, Daesh (ISIS)* and al-Qaeda*-affiliated terrorists in Syria and Iraq, and provided advisory support against Israeli forces during the 2006 Lebanon War.
* Terrorist groups outlawed in Russia and many other countries.
