From The Bend Weekly:

And now, there are Christian-oriented video games: In early May, at the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo in Los Angeles, "Left Behind: Eternal Forces," made its video game debut. The game "features plenty of biblical smiting, albeit with high-tech weaponry as players battle the forces of the Antichrist in a smoldering world approaching Armageddon," the Los Angeles Times reported. The game is based on the best selling series of apocalyptic novels of the same name, written by Jerry Jenkins, and conceived of the Rev. Tim LaHaye, a longtime Religious right leader.

"’Left Behind’ has the Antichrist, the end of the world, the apocalypse," said co-creator Jeffrey S. Frichner. "It’s got all the Christian stuff, and it’s still got all the cool stuff."

"The reason that I think this game has a chance is that it’s not particularly preachy," said Michael Pachter, an analyst at Wedbush Morgan Securities. "I will say some of the dialogue is pretty lame — people saying, ‘Praise the Lord’ after they blow away the bad guys. I think they’re overdoing it a bit. But the message is OK."

Source: http://www.bendweekly.com/Opinion/751.html

That’s right, they say Praise the Lord after blowing away the bad guys.

While I am not familiar with The Bend Weekly, Bend Oregon is not the most conservative town.  It is quite interesting to read what they have to say about Christian marketing and who spends what on it.

Thanks to: http://www.churchmarketingsucks.com/archives/2006/08/whoring_pastors.html for the heads up.