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# First Saudi Arabian multiplatform game a blessing and a curse
- URL: https://www.killscreen.com/first-saudi-arabian-multiplatform-game-a-blessing-and-a/
- Published: 2011-06-29T17:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2015-11-17T15:52:51.000Z
- Description: Fempop points to something unique coming out the Arab world, but there’s a catch. So the good news is that there’s a videogame from Saudi Arabia which is something of a rarity. The bad news is that it looks a lot like an already-popular American game of almost the same name and who’s latest iteratio
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- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-26 09:39

![](http://killscreendaily.com/includes/img/focus-areas/unearthed_saudi_game.jpg)

Fempop [points](http://www.fempop.com/2011/06/26/saudi-arabia-is-on-the-minds-of-video-game-developers-with-uncharted-3-and-unearthed/?ref=killscreen.com) to something unique coming out the Arab world, but there’s a catch. So the good news is that there’s a videogame from Saudi Arabia which is something of a rarity. The bad news is that it looks a lot like an [already-popular](http://www.unchartedthegame.com/?ref=killscreen.com) American game of almost the same name and who’s latest iteration takes place in the same region. Oh well. (But I guess you could say that about a lot of games these days):

> *Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta* is the first major multi platform game to come out of Saudi Arabia and it’s riffing on a **very** popular American made game so it’s going to have some eyes on it. But coming from the country that famously won’t allow women to drive it’s promising to see a woman character in an action-based video game. And she’s wearing a headscarf! When was the last time you saw a heroine in a video game wearing a headscarf?