# How long until there's an Osama bin Laden Raid videogame? **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [May 4, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816 "2012-05-04T01:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/1 "2012-05-04T01:13:48Z")
> **[Killing of Osama bin Laden | Operation Neptune Spear](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Neptune_Spear#Operation_Neptune_Spear)** > > The official mission code name was Operation Neptune Spear. Neptune's spear is the trident, which appears on the U.S. Navy's Special Warfare insignia. Or is there already? Seems like the op would lend itself to the medium. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Kobayashi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4af34b/32.png) [@Mr.Kobayashi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Kobayashi)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/2 "2012-05-04T01:23:15Z")
Hell, there was kind of [one in 2008](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzVOdb0ZBH4) not a million miles away from how things went. It would be trivial to mod in his compound and a guy with a beard in pretty much any open-world game with a creation engine. As for a game purely based around that raid, I doubt it would ever be published. Far too short for a start, not a lot of variety there either. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/3 "2012-05-04T02:06:52Z")
In the future. The distant future. [May 2011](http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2385051,00.asp). ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/4 "2012-05-04T03:12:18Z")
Moved Cafe Society --\> the Game Room. ---
**Author:** ![Gukumatz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/74df32/32.png) [@Gukumatz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gukumatz)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 4:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/5 "2012-05-04T04:19:29Z")
The Call of Duty: Black Ops assassination of Castro in Cuba was pretty close in terms of content, if not entirely specific. (The operatives were already on the scene arranging an insurrection instead of being point-inserted by heli.) Stick a bigger beard on him and done. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/6 "2012-05-04T05:44:13Z")
One of the Hitman games had you assasinate a guy who looked a lot like bin Laden, but it wasn’t anything like the mission that did kill him. ---
**Author:** ![DKW](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dkw/32/3118_2.png) [@DKW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DKW)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/7 "2012-05-04T06:10:54Z")
My guess: Quick 'n dirty Flash game or minor DLC mission for established military shooter game. Most likely the former. No matter what type of gamer you are, the universal thread is that a game needs things happening in it. Surrounding a building and killing one guy is going to get boring pretty quickly. Maybe if there’s an option to take him alive, and you get a better score/rating if you pull it off, there might be something to it. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 6:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/8 "2012-05-04T06:32:35Z")
> [@madmonk28](#): > > One of the Hitman games had you assasinate a guy who looked a lot like bin Laden, but it wasn’t anything like the mission that did kill him. Which game/level? My brain is not as easily racked now as it is sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![madmonk28](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madmonk28/32/20811_2.png) [@madmonk28](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madmonk28)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 7:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/9 "2012-05-04T07:21:07Z")
I can’t remember the game/level, but it was the mission where you are either in Afghanistan, or Pakistan. The target, who looked a lot like OBL was in a corner praying on the second story of a building. You could sneak up behind him and garotte him while he was praying. ETA: I believe it is the bazaar level in Hitman 2. ---
**Author:** ![almwilso](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@almwilso](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/almwilso)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/10 "2012-05-05T03:01:48Z")
It could be possible that Osama be still alive and file Defamation case against video game.:smack: ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/11 "2012-05-05T04:07:27Z")
OK, thanks. I thought there probably had been. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/12 "2012-05-05T04:17:55Z")
> [@almwilso](#): > > It could be possible that Osama be still alive and file Defamation case against video game.:smack: Really? And what do you suppose would happen when he appeared in court to testify? ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-long-until-theres-an-osama-bin-laden-raid-videogame/620816/13 "2012-05-05T04:59:08Z")
> [@Oakminster](#): > > Really? And what do you suppose would happen when he appeared in court to testify? Maybe he should disguise himself then with [something like this](http://www.mycostumewigs.com/osbinlabe.html).