Russian Defense Ministry officials set out to create an answer to pro-American shooter Call of Duty, developing a game that would boost patriotism by giving young gamers a chance to fight through World War II in the boots of Russians.
What they got was a $1 million knock off of Tetris, RT reports.
A visit to Russia’s Ministry of Defense multimedia page allows people to play games that look an awful lot like Tetris, Battleship and Minesweeper. A far cry from the goal of creating a sophisticated military first-person shooter, state-run RT reports that IT experts now believe the games were simply a way for the Ministry of Defense to launder cash.
“When I saw these games for the first time, I thought they had been developed by some freelancers from Belarus paid $500 at the most,” the editor-in-chief of “Hacker” magazine, Nikita Kislitsyn, told RT. “I was confused when I read that Russia had paid $1 million for them.”
In their defense, the ministry tells RT that more multimedia content is on the way.
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