Cults and New Religious Movements in Literature and Popular Culture - Gaming

Gaming

• At Bioshock 2 the primary antagonist name Sofia lamb and former building designer Simon wales creates religion in entitled "Rapture Family" as result after events of bioshock, the death of Andrew Ryan, & Complete society collapse at rapture. The religion based from People`s temple and Mason family.
• The Silent Hill series heavily involves a religious cult.
• The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion has a cult called the "Mythic Dawn". The player must join the cult in an effort to defeat it.
• In Devil May Cry 4, there is a quasi-religious group called the Order of the Sword that worships the demon Sparda and has many cult-like tendencies.
• In Resident Evil 4, Leon Kennedy fights against a cult of Spanish villagers possessed by parasites.
• In Diablo II, the player is tasked to fight against a variety of religious cults: There are shamanic groups who gather around "healers" and whose adherents are called "the fallen". Their spiritual guru is one "Colenzo". Then there is a monastery that has turned to a form of satanistic death-worship, and an old initiatic order called the "Order of the Horadrim" whose leadership has gone mad. In the third act of the game, a cult named the "Zakarum" with priests of the ranks of "sextons", "cantors", and "hierophants", is depicted. The cult followers are called the "faithful" or "zealots", and there is also a "High Council".
• In EarthBound, Ness must rescue a girl with psychic powers named Paula from a cult called Happy Happyism that resembles the Ku Klux Klan and believes that everything must be painted blue. The Happy Happyists are controlling a small town named Happy Happy Village. Their leader is named Mr. Carpainter, and a statue called the Mani Mani Statue is controlling the cult's thoughts. Eventually, Ness breaks the spell over the cultists and rescues Paula. Many of the characteristics of the cult are similar to real-world cults: Mr. Carpainter is claimed to have received a "divine revelation" that told him to create the cult, otherwise normal citizens appear to have delusions, and a woman in the town asks for donations.
• In Dead Space the majority of the crew of the Ishimura are "unitologists" and are seen as cultists.
• In Dragon Age: Origins, the player may either side with or defy the Cult of Andraste before obtaining Her Sacred Ashes from the Urn.
• In Fallout 3 There is a cult named The Children Of The Atom (named for the novel), who worship an un-detonated nuclear bomb in a settlement called Megaton.
• In Fallout 2 There is a cult named The Hubologists, a thinly veiled reference to Scientology. The practices of the cult broadly resemble some of the practices of Scientology.
• In Grand Theft Auto games there is frequent discussion on the radio, and by pedestrians about the Epsilon Program, a religion started by the character Chris Formage, which has been called "a cult" by GTA radio personalities such as Lazlow Jones.
• In the Warcraft Universe a number of cults exist, some worshiping ancient evils; seeking to bring them back into the world like the Twilight's Hammer, while others like the "Cult of the Damned" seek to end all life on Azeroth, while securing their own immortality in undeath.
• The game "Persona 3", the human villans are the founders and leaders of a cult worshiping Nyx: the harbringer of the apocalypse.
• In the "Fatal Frame" series there are a variety of cults that perform rituals and sacrifices.
• In "killer7", the main antagonist of the third part of the game, Andrei Ulmeyda, seems to be a cult leader, as it is said that the members of the Ulmeyda Intercity are all fanatic about Ulmeyda, his posters are all around the outskirts of the city. There is even an Ulmeyda bottle cap competition to be beaten in order to reach to his company building. The player encounters a large number of cultists in jumpsuits. After performing a mercy killing on Ulmeyda, one cultist calls him his "Messiah."