# Somalia in video games: from Delta Force to Medal of Honor

> Video games set in Somalia: Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, Army of Two, Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Joint Task Force, Syphon Filter, Beyond: Two Souls, F-16 Multirole Fighter and others, with years and settings.

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## Why Somalia appears in games

Most games that use Somalia as a setting are military shooters. They draw on two subjects that reached world news: the US and UN operations in Mogadishu in 1992–1995, the subject of the book and film *Black Hawk Down*, and piracy off the Somali coast. The descriptions below come from each game's Wikipedia article, which summarises the game's own story; the wording of the plots, including terms such as "warlord", is the games' and Wikipedia's, not Calankii's.

## The 1990s operations

- ***Delta Force: Black Hawk Down*** (NovaLogic, 2003 on Windows, 2004 on Mac, 2005 on PlayStation 2 and Xbox) is set during the Unified Task Force operation of the early 1990s. Its missions take place mainly in the southern [Jubba](/en/regions/jubba-river/) Valley and in Mogadishu ([Delta Force: Black Hawk Down, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delta_Force:_Black_Hawk_Down)).
- ***Army of Two*** (Electronic Arts, 2008) opens in 1993, when two US Army Rangers and a private military contractor are sent to kill a fictional Somali "warlord", Abdullahi Mo'Alim ([Army of Two, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Army_of_Two_(video_game))).
- ***Joint Task Force*** (2006), a real-time tactics game for Windows, begins in Somalia, where in the story a fictional armed leader, Akil Farrah, has overthrown the government and declared himself president. Its other scenarios are set in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Colombia and Iraq ([Joint Task Force, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Task_Force_(video_game))).
- ***F-16 Multirole Fighter*** (NovaLogic, 1998), a flight simulator, includes campaigns in Somalia as well as Serbia, Burma, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo ([F-16 Multirole Fighter, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F-16_Multirole_Fighter)).

## Piracy

- ***Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow*** (Bend Studio and Sony, 2007, PlayStation Portable; PlayStation 2 in 2010): the hero flies to the Indian Ocean, where a fictional band of Somali pirates has seized a ship ([Syphon Filter: Logan's Shadow, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syphon_Filter:_Logan%27s_Shadow)).
- ***Medal of Honor: Warfighter*** (Danger Close and EA, 2012): the campaign follows US special forces through Bosnia, [Pakistan](/en/diaspora/somalis-in-south-asia/), the Philippines and Somalia, including a Marine-led raid on Somali pirates and a hostage rescue ([Medal of Honor: Warfighter, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medal_of_Honor:_Warfighter)).

## Other games

- ***Beyond: Two Souls*** (Quantic Dream and Sony, 2013): on a mission in Somalia, the main character is sent to kill a man described as a warlord, and learns afterwards that he was the country's president ([Beyond: Two Souls, Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond:_Two_Souls)).
- Wikidata also links Somalia to *Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare* (Nintendo DS, 2007), *Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3* (2011), *Insurgency* (2014), the *Project Reality* modification for *Battlefield 2* (2005), *Mega Man X5* (2000) and *TFX* (1993), through settings, maps or locations ([Wikidata, Somalia as narrative location](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1045)).

## Read more

- [Films about Somalia](/en/society/films-about-somalia/)
- [Battle of Mogadishu, 1993](/en/history/battle-of-mogadishu-1993/)
- [Somali cinema](/en/society/somali-cinema/)

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