Outrage over security firm Blackwater showing players as mercenaries in new video game

London, September 9: The controversial U.S. security firm Blackwater has led to outrage over plans to launch a video game where players perform the role of mercenaries.

The company, accused of some of the worst human rights abuses in the war in Iraq, along with Game Company 505 Studios, the game, the Daily Mail to publish reports.

It is developed under license by Erik Prince, founder of Blackwater, who won more than a billion dollars in contracts from the Bush administration for security in Iraq.

Scheduled for later this year, the game is already condemned by critics of the company, now renamed Xe Services after a series of controversies and alleged violations of human rights.

The game is set for release on Xbox 360 is Microsoft 'and is designed to take advantage of the Kinect machine "the motion sensitive controller system.

The players act a role as part of a mercenary team into enemy territory on missions to save and protect UN staff.

Standing a few feet away from their televisions, players raise their weapons to a gun on the screen, point and ducks, to Bob and weave to avoid enemy fire.

Prince hopes to license the brand in other areas. He told USA Today: "They will shoot, move and communicate through a very difficult, unfamiliar and uncertain situations and they are active, they are not going to sit They will jump, lunge, squat .. and charge, caste, kicking and punching. "

A British spokesman told the Independent Games 505: "The video game is a fictional first-person action shooter, with no political agenda, and will be available for gamers to experience challenging missions laten''de Blackwater agents have experienced."

Prince, a former Navy SEAL who founded Blackwater in 1997. The company protected American diplomats in Iraq until it was banned by the Iraqi government of using excessive force. (ANI)