Special Operation 85: Hostage Rescue

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Special Operation 85: Hostage Rescue (Persian:عملیات ویژه 85، آزادی گروگان‌ها ) is an Iranian video game that was released by the Association of Islamic Unions of Students (Persian: اتحادیه انجمن‌های اسلامی دانش‌آموزان) on Monday, July 16, 2007^[1][2].

Contents 1 Story 2 Gameplay 3 Development 4 References

[edit] Story

Two young Iranian nuclear scientists, Saeed and his wife Maryam, are detained by US military forces while on a religious pilgrimage to Karbala, Iraq, and are sent to a prison in Israel. Bahram Nasseri, an Iranian special operations agent, is sent to Israel to save the scientists and four other Iranians.^[2] While in Israel, Nasseri also exposes an Israeli-Iranian responsible for leaking classified information about Iran's nuclear program to Western powers^[3]. The name of Nasseri's mission is "The Special Operation"^[1].

[edit] Gameplay

The game is a 3D^[2] first-person shooter^[4] with eight levels of play^[2]. The player character, Bahram Nasseri, must kill US and Israeli soldiers and manage his Iranian-made AK-47's ammunition while pursuing the rescue objectives^[2]. Nasseri must also obtain secret information from the laptops of slain enemy combatants^[1].

[edit] Development

Special Operation 85 was created in three years^[1] on a budget of $32,000 (300 million rials)^[5] provided by the Union of the Islamic Students^[3]. The development team, led by Ali Reza Masaeli, was based in Isfahan, Iran^[1].

The game was created in response to "Assault on Iran", an American video game that simulates the destruction of an Iranian nuclear facility by US military forces^[1]. According to Mohammad Taghi Fakhrian, the Union's secretary general, the game was inspired by Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei^[2], and aims to encourage ideals such as "defense, sacrifice and martyrdom"^[1]. He has responded to critics by stressing that the game does not promote terrorism^[3].

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