The "Grand Theft Auto" series has generated controversy among parents for years -- but it’s also one of the most popular game series of all time. Its creator, Navid Khonsari, is ready to push the limits between politics and gaming -- right back to the Iranian revolution of 1979.

The players will take several roles throughout the game, from an American translator trying to rescue hostages in the embassy, to an Iranian revolutionary fighting against the revolutions extreme religious elements.

Khonsari sat down in an exclusive interview with Russia Today to -really- spell out why this game is so necessary.

“Having lived in Iran and been in Iran during the hostage situation, and then immediately I moved to Canada and living in the West, I came to realize that there’s a number of different sides to a story and that this aspect, if introduced in a game, would kind of revolutionize as how we play games...”

But is the revolution a fit setting for a video game? A blogger for G4TV says -- it’s actually an inovative way to tell the story.

“The cultural minefield this game walks is amazing, but this is exactly the kind of story that can best be told through a game, and, just maybe, if a publisher is found who is courageous enough to release it, we'll be all be able to judge for ourselves how we would have reacted during the Iranian Revolution.”

If this mix of politics, history and gaming goes over, this could be the first game in a series. An analyst on CNN explains.

It’s kind of like a game of diplomacy and political science. And the cinematic director said this going to be one of a series of franchises of which CIA opperations had in various countries -- such as Panama with Manuel Noriega, even in Libya in the ‘70s and ‘80s.”

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