Pretty cool stuff. A bunch of Iranian dudes making such a high-quality game using only open source software and google brings happiness to my heart =)
Iran posses absolutely no copyright laws, meaning that games, music and movies can be freely distributed, leading Arash Jafari to state that, “People thought we had lost our minds” for choosing to make games as a profession.Additionally, the developers had to work around trade sanctions against Iran, forcing their hand into using freely available open-source software to power their game. The group also leveraged the Internet to learn more about development. Jafari said that, “Google was our university.”
The developers also recently received a grant from Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, which will help it promote the game abroad, leading Chief Executive Amir Hossein Fassihi to proclaim, “We are now in control of our own future.” Indeed the game has already secured distribution in Germany.
Sauce: http://www.gamepolitics.com/2010/03/22/ ... unch-title
Trailer:
"In the information age, the barriers just aren't there. The barriers are self-imposed. If you want to set off and go develop some grand new thing, you don't need millions of dollars of capitalization. You need enough pizza and Diet Coke to stick in your refrigerator, a cheap PC to work on, and the dedication to go through with it. I slept on floors. I waded across rivers."
Also, kinda surprised this doesn't in some way get them in trouble for the violence or something, but in fact got them a grant from "Iran’s Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance". One thing's for sure, they probably didn't copy the more raunchy elements of GOW 
carmeck quote !
Man, those guys went through some really cool times.
That's bound to be interesting as long as they preserved the story in the game more or less in its original ambiance.
