Kosar3D (an Iranian animation company) enters the gaming industry, with Iran and Russia’s military alliance taking center stage.

The studio wants to take on NATO (but it seems to be mainly the US and Israel) in the game, developed by programmers based in Mashhad. Farhad Azima will direct it. He was previously behind Battle for the Persian Gulf 2, the theme of which is an “armed conflict between the Iranian Revolutionary Guard and the US Navy in the Persian Gulf.” Oddly, according to the Kosar3D announcement, the game is self-funded and wants confrontation in this form of the entertainment industry. In other words, Revenge is being pitched directly against Call of Duty.

“In this game, the military alliance takes form between Iran and Russia. The group tries to neutralize the operations planned by the enemy against the allies of Iran and Russia. We try to develop the game to be on par with games like Call of Duty. Despite our limited facilities, the game resembles American and world-class games in terms of graphics and quality. An important challenge is a battle between Iran’s fourth-generation Sukhoi fighter and the United States’ fifth-generation fighter, the F35. In calculations on paper, the battle between these two fighters will probably be associated with the victory of the F35. Still, in a dogfight or a very close battle, the victory will be with the Sukhoi, especially if the pilot is an Iranian,” Azima said in an interview with Russia Today.

According to the Russia Today report, Revenge is not about war but about pre-emptive attacks on enemy territory to prevent them from attacking. (It is as meaningless a twist of words as when they called the war against Ukraine a special military operation.) Incidentally, the presentation of the Middle East region in Call of Duty has been rightly criticized for several years now, so the same thing is happening now, but from the other direction. The hostile territory is not named, but it may refer to Israel, as the destruction of an enemy missile base by a hypersonic ballistic missile does not mention the country on YouTube. Still, on their website they refer to it as “Zionist fighters.”

Revenge has seven stages, and the first is set in Ukraine, where you have to get into an American laboratory where a virus is being produced that turns Ukrainians into zombies that attack Russians. According to Azima, it is based on the fact that Russia has seized American laboratories in Ukraine where deadly viruses are being produced (and it could be considered fake news). The reason why they are zombies is that it makes the story interesting, because it is the Americans’ way of compensating for their defeat…

They’ve been working on the game for two years, and Azima wrote in one of his posts that “with God’s [Allah’s] permission, we’re going to make a lot of money” in the game, which might be released this year, which… runs on Unreal Engine. That is American technology.

Source: PCGamer