Islamic State (IS) militants have posted a trailer of a video game online which is unofficially styled on the popular Grand Theft Auto series and shows a character dressed as a rebel fighter slaughtering victims and blowing up Western vehicles.
The game also shows the IS logo on the top screen portraying characters blowing western vehicles like police cars and army trucks, reported the Daily Star.
Throughout the explosive game, cries of a phrase meaning "God is great" can be heard as well as Arabic music.
Mufaddal Fakhruddin, senior editor at the Middle Eastern branch of popular US-based video games and entertainment site IGN said that these games can have a significant influential power on young minds that cannot differentiate between good and bad.
He also said that implicating video games in the wrong way is not acceptable at all.
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