After watching the video for this game I’m having a hard time thinking that this is real.  My first thought is that the Wii is at the end of days.  It has crossed over into empty nothingness and has come back to bring Mass: We Pray with it.  I have seen and heard of other small production companies releasing religious games for the PC to spread the word of the Almighty, but nothing of this caliber of weird.  The previous games followed the normal formula for a video game.  These depicted a playable character (animated Jesus doing battle in Jerusalem, or included Christian followers shooting lasers out of their Bible) or online Street Fighter-esque flash games where you battle other religious figures like Buddha and Ghandi.  These all follow the normal recipe for video games targeted at the youth audience.  I thought those were bad.  Mass: We Pray takes the idea and suck of church going to a whole new level. It’s laughable.  The line for this game teeters on real or fake and has me wondering if this is in fact real or not.

The video on the webpage is of course campy and downright retarded from the start.  It immediately gives off the vibe of infomercial spoof with the voice-over commentary right from the get go.  The ad starts out with “You want to worship the Lord and Savior every day of the week, but you have to wait until Sunday? Not anymore! Check out Mass: We Pray!”  You can almost hear the announcer say, “Their has GOT to be a better WAY!” under his breath.

After we get passed the horrid dinner sequence and tacky sweaters we are shown what the supposed “normal” family is supposed to do as family time.  I don’t know about you guys out there, but after I have to suffer through heartfelt Thanksgiving Day dinner with my family, I want to go into my room and masturbate to dwarf amputee internet porn. Oh wait, I guess that’s just me, but am I the only one that has to deal with Aunt Jeanne knocking on my door while I’m trying to finish? Sheesh, she’s so nosy!

You’ll notice after the two kids start playing, that the dad’s head is on a string like a marionette, constantly nodding in approval of his glorious kids as they gain the high score in Mass: We Pray.  I really think this might be the way he occupies his kid’s time so he can go bone his wife in the bedroom to make another kid.

The real fun starts when the entire family breaks out the “kneeling boards” and all proceed to engage in some insanely awesome 4 person co-op action.  It’s boys vs. girls, dad vs. mom, brother vs. sister crazy gaming action!  Mass hysteria!  Look at that shit! Little Billy just got 4 hail-Mary’s in a row and got to move up 4 pews! AWESOME!  And no telling what that red light on the kneeling boards mean.  Bluetooth? Satan?  I guess we will never know.

After a little further research it’s good to know that Mass: We Play doesn’t actually exist from the dark side and this is a viral ad campaign for Visceral Game’s upcoming title Dante’s Inferno.  Clicking on any part of the webpage (screenshots below the video, the kneeling pad, etc.) takes you to a trailer for Dante’s Inferno.  Like the game or not, they are doing an awesome job at marketing this game.  First the paid protestors at E3, and now this.  Good times.  I can now breathe a sigh of relief.