“There is no real context of Sarajevo, and the horror’s we survived”, she adds.
Jusic says she also read the interview about the game which she believes are summed up by the words “cool, fun and Hollywood”. However, the Sniper Ghost Warrior game official website carries an interview with Michael Sroczynski, a producer of the game, who describes it as a combination of “fun and realism”. The Polish company City Interactive declined to comment when contacted by Balkan Insight. Now, all of a sudden, they are depicted as saviours, and children that play this game will have an entirely false image of this time”, says Jusic. This is a complete paradox, because while we waited to be rescued in Sarajevo, the Americans were silent. “The main character is an American who ‘saves the city’. Jusic adds that the game shows the Marin Dvor region of Sarajevo and the Holiday Inn hotel, which was known at the time as “Sniper alley”, due to the large number of kills that occurred there during the war. “I’ve spent the entire war here in Sarajevo, under the siege, and my father was a member of the anti-sniper unit within the city, this is why it was so hard for me to accept a game such as this and the role played by the American forces”, she tells Balkan Insight. Part of the Sniper Ghost Warrior game, made by the Polish company City Interactive, is set in Sarajevo in 1993, which Adela says was the worst part of the siege, when Sarajevo residents could barely leave their homes due to the Bosnian Serb snipers that were active in the city. A scene from the movie trailer | Photo by YoutubeĪdela Jusic, an artist working in video, installation, and performance and living in Sarajevo, has published a critique of the Sniper Ghost Warrior game for the Triple Canopy magazine in New York, claiming this game “rewrites history” and as such is harmful for youth and adults in the Balkan region.
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