, the PC real-time strategy game from Left Behind Games Inc. (LBG), has received accolades from a coalition of church and ministry leaders.

Numerous ministries have endorsed the new game, including the Christian Coalition, Focus on the Family, Women of Faith, Promise Keepers and Concerned Women for America.

“This game is the greatest invention developed in my lifetime to reach this generation,” said “Left Behind” book series author Tim LaHaye. Eternal Forces is based on the best-selling series by LaHaye and Jerry B. Jenkins, which have sold more than 63 million copies worldwide.

Last fall, Eternal Forces was issued a “Teen” rating by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), which company executives said would prove to critics that the game does not contain gratuitous violence. A “Teen” ESRB rating is equivalent to the movie rating PG-13, and is given to video games that have content deemed suitable for ages 13 and older.

Before the game was released, Eternal Forces was caught up in a controversy last summer after articles in the media spotlighted its violence.

“References to 'praise the lord and pass the ammunition' or 'kill in the name of God' or others were made by journalists spreading misinformation, which is absolutely not true,” Troy Lyndon, CEO of LBG, said in a statement published on the Left Behind Games Web site. “There is no blood or gore in Left Behind: Eternal Forces. The game is designed to be a classic battle between good and evil, but it does not gratuitously depict violence or death.”

The first title from LBG, Eternal Forces, is set in post-rapture New York City, where players control the Tribulation Force as they attempt to save New Yorkers from the Global Peacekeepers, controlled by the Antichrist.

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