"Food Force" #2 most downloaded free Internet game

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http://www.food-force.com/index.php/teachers/



Last April, the U.N. World Food Program introduced a computer video game it [color=blue]hoped would teach children something about global hunger. [/color]

"Food Force" (http://www.food-force.com/) quietly made its debut at a children's book fair in Bologna, Italy. To the organization's shock, it soon had so many hits that the Web site kept crashing, and it has become the most unlikely of cult sensations.

No one shoots anyone in "Food Force." Rebels are negotiated with, not blown away, and the women are sensibly dressed aid professionals -- although one character does greatly resemble Lara Croft in "Tomb Raider." Yet "Food Force" quickly has become the second-most downloaded free Internet game, after the Army's recruiting tool, "America's Army."

More than 3 million people have downloaded it so far (at www.food-force.com, for both Macs and Windows) -- and it is only now being translated into languages other than English and Japanese.

http://www.food-force.com/index.php/teachers/