What People Said About the Terrible Game the NRA Made Six Years Ago

Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic and elsewhere on the Internet. Wayne LaPierre, the National Rifle Association’s No. 1 mouthpiece, emerged from Oz’s curtain this morning to condemn the worst video games of American culture. Funny, the NRA made one itself: NRA Gun Club, released in 2006 for the PlayStation 2. Here’s what people said at the time. https://kotaku.com/the-nras-absolutely-unhinged-response-to-newtown-condem-5970484 NRA Gun Club Crave Entertainment Released: Oct. 2, 2006. Critic: Brian (Metacritic) • “I’ll give it an overwhelming thumbs down.” Score: 2. Critic: GamesRadar • “The feeling you get from holding an actual weapon in your hand might grant some intoxicating sense of power, putting as it does the power to end a life in your hands. Of course, the same could be said of a hammer.”cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"e3616d04-4972-4839-a63a-c6975e2e9731","settings":{"advertising":{"macros":{"AD_UNIT":"/23178111854/od.kotaku.com/article","CHILD_UNIT":"article","POST_ID":"5970689","POST_TYPE":"post","CHANNEL":"uncategorized","SECTION":"","SUBSECTION":"","CATEGORIES":"uncategorized","TAGS":"","NOP":"0"},"timeBeforeFirstAd":0}}}).render("cnx-player-main")}); • “NRA Gun Club may be useful for demystifying gun ownership for wannabe weekend warriors, but it sure as hell doesn’t qualify as much of a game.” Score: 2. Critic: Ian Nelson (Amazon) • “Perhaps one of the single most horrendous games to ever come from a third-rate game creator.” • “NRA Gun Club could very well be the single worst game in the history of games.” • “This game is pure garbage, and Crave Entertainment should be as ashamed of itself as I am.” Score: winner55 ทางเข้า สล็อต 1 star. Critic: Jeff Gerstmann (then of GameSpot) • “Absolutely pure in its devotion to awfulness.” l86.com สล็อต (Note: This was the lone bullet point under the heading “The Good.”) • “This is the sort of hastily slapped-together game that should have been a free bonus for subscribing to the NRA newsletter or something.” • “Most textbooks are more entertaining.” • “This game promotes violence—you’re bound to rip the disc out of your PlayStation 2 and fling pg168 ทางเข้า it across the room almost immediately after putting it in.” • “Since the game doesn’t let you reload the weapons or press the safety, you don’t learn much.” • “NRA Gun Club’s awful gameplay and presentation make it an effective though unintended antigun message: Guns are boring.” Score: 1.6 Critic: GarrisonO. (Metacritic) • “This game completely sucks!!!” Score: 2 Backhanded Box Quotes will be an occasional feature of Kotaku’s Anger Management, unless it isn’t.