The Ultimate Arab game

Let's agree on one thing first, when we say Arab game, do we mean a game that has been developed by an Arab game studio? or do we mean a game that has Arabic content? While the ideal answer would be: both, the reality is we are still too fresh to the scene to accomplish either. 

What I eluded to in a previous post, is that we have an advantage, our Arabic culture is yet to be mainstream, and while the Japanese managed to standardize ninjas and samurai as cool, the west with cowboys and armored knights, where does the Arab Warrior and Bedouin stand amongst all these heroic characters? 

I have come to realize that perhaps the ultimate Arab game was made in Montreal and it's name is now a household name: Assassin's creed!

It does it all, heroic main character, incredible gameplay and superb graphics. it accrued to me while I was horse back riding from my village to Damascus in that game that if I was part of the team that developed that game there would be a considerable amount of content that I would be able to provide to first make it more historically accurate and second make the Arabic culture look totally bad ass! 

The game made me realize a lot of things, we were the original ninja, we were the original mission impossible and we were the original marksmen! Even the term assassin comes from an Arabic word. Fact is, there's no problem with creating an alternate universe, as long as it's cool, it serves the gameplay and makes shit loads of fun. only problem is that there was so much missing in the details that would've made this even more mystical. 

Historically speaking, the Arabs fought off the crusades for over seven centuries eventually defeating them, there are battles, heroes, secret agencies and stories that would fill in volumes. Would the arab developers ever recognize it as a chance to create a marvelous adventure or would they be careful to create something that's politically relevant to ever try their hands on such a topic? They would probably sit idle and watch while others make a move. 

Alas, we don't have the development capability, and due to that we simply don't deserve the right to have a say in that matter. With the way the Arabic game development scene shifting towards the casual market, I don't see a proper answer on the horizon. 

sigh