USC’s Gamepipe brings us Lockdown, which they describe as “a serious game for incident response to school shootings.” Obviously, this game, or simulator, or training application, however you want to bill it, isn’t about graphics, but I can’t stop thinking of Playmobil as I look at the video.

It’s supposed to be used to teach SWAT teams how to respond to school shootings, but one look at the video in that link is enough to make me question it, at least. However, that response apparently involves sending in a single dude with two machine guns, a pistol, a sniper rifle, and smoke grenades to clear the school room by room while telling only some of the people he sees to exit calmly (while waving a gun at them). He busts into rooms, shooting open locked doors and clears them by himself. At one point, he opens a door, sees someone with a gun to a student’s head and immediately drops the gun-toting student with a few headshots.

The whole thing culminates with our intrepid protagonist throwing a smoke grenade down a hall and blindly rounding a corner while shooting into a group of several students and the final gunman. The gunman then flees back into a completely open common area of some sort, complete with crumpled bodies of students, only to lamely strafe back and forth while the SWAT member shoots at him.

One can only hope that the simulator isn’t quite done or that USC is only loosley applying the term “serious.”