Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque

Nidal Nijm Games · 2022

A fiercely partisan war-game perspective

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How you play it

Couch co-op

Splitscreen

The WhatsNext verdict

For Players interested in retro third-person action shooters who want an unapologetic, politically charged Palestinian resistance story with 1980s cinematic flair.: It fuses intense, lethal firefights and bullet-time gunplay with an overt, rarely portrayed political viewpoint and delightfully exaggerated action-movie bombast. Tradeoff: Severe mechanical jank, simplistic enemy behavior, and punishing checkpoint placement can lead to sudden, frustrating deaths.

What it does best

  • A fiercely partisan war-game perspective

  • A proudly ridiculous 1980s action-movie spectacle

  • Tense, lethal firefights where every corner matters

What might put you off

  • Explicit real-world political violence

  • Janky, unforgiving presentation

The setup

What you are walking into

Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque is an Action Game on which you play as Ahmad al-Falastini, a young Palestinian Student who was unjustly tortured and jailed by Israeli Soldiers for 5 years, had all his family killed by an Israeli Airstrike and now, after getting out from prison, seeks revenge against those who wronged him, killed his family and stolen his homeland, by joining a new Palestinian Resistance Movement called Fursan al-Aqsa: The Knights of the Al-Aqsa Mosque.

Where it lives

PlayStation 3AndroidPC (Microsoft Windows)Xbox 360

Genre

ShooterStrategyTacticalAdventureIndie

Vibe

ActionStealthWarfare
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