Racial Holy War
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"I don't know whether to give it to a scientist to examine or a priest to exorcise!"
- – Nostalgia Critic (regarding the Garbage Pail Kids movie, but it works here too)
Veterans of 1d4chan and /tg/ in general will notice that when we tend to review and, more commonly, openly make fun of shitty RPGs, we still tend to discuss what positive features they have, if any; for example, Ironclaw may be sort of fail, but it works fine once the furries are removed from the setting.
Putting it simply: Racial Holy War, also known as RaHoWa, is a White Supremacist RPG. It's a ridiculous attempt to lionize this belief as a form of propaganda - in RPG format, of course.
Premise
The synopsis of RaHoWa is that the world is on the edge of collapse, and it's all the doing of the evil non-White races and their insidious Jewish masterminds, having reduced the "superior" White race to a downtrodden minority. A team of brave Klansmen White Warriors emerges in the hopes of "cleansing the world of all the vermin". Yes, this is an actual quote from the game.
Throw in such great missions as destroying a drug cartel run by "awful latrinos."
Mechanics
Character creation is a relatively boring affair, with a similar points-based attribute system to most RPGs - the problem is that what these attributes actually do is only mentioned in passing, if at all. From there, you choose a class and the skills of your choice, which include Clothesmaking (suggested uses for it include making swastika shirts), Video games, and Holy Books of Creativity, the latter of which involves "the study and enlightenment of the greatest books ever written - Nature’s Eternal Religion and The White Man’s Bible", which somehow manage to heal the White Warriors by "soothing and inspiring them". You can even heal yourself by giving yourself a speech!
For the combat part, you only have 3 generic weapons: a handgun, assault rifle, and shotgun. From here, you can pretty much see how downhill things go for combat: weapon selection is so god damn basic that there's no fun to be had in variety.
Enemies
As one last bit of flaming stupidity, the game takes unnecessary pleasure in categorizing enemy NPCs into ethnic and racial stereotypes and naming them with racial slurs, each with their own special attack. It also makes whites the weakest race in the game, since they are the only ones that don't get a special attack, with the only plausible excuse being that whites being a "master race" have no need for special attacks - whereas the other races need them to get an advantage over whites, who they supposedly can't beat in a straight-up "fair" fight. The explanation for these special attacks also make it clear that the writer was more interested in pushing his racist worldviews than making the game playable.
- Niggers: "Smelly, stupid creatures" which can reduce PCs' accuracy via their body odor.
- Latrinos: "Lazy and criminal vermin" with the ability to strike first in combat, because lol border crossing jokes.
Wait, if they're so lazy, why don't they attack last?Also, yes, the book consistently calls them "Latrinos". - Sand Niggers: "Scumbags" that have "declared the White Race as one of their many enemies in their 'Jihad' or holy war" which can try to blow themselves up to attack. This conveniently ignores that Islam is a religion, not a race.
- Gooks: "Timid, annoying, slanty-eyed pieces of excrement that so desperately wish they were White" (never heard of Weeaboos, eh?) which can gain extra attacks in hand-to-hand combat from watching "fake martial arts movies", which makes you wonder how they gain extra attacks if the movies are fake.
- Jews: "The worst and most evil parasites that the world has ever seen" who can bribe the PCs with jewgold to skip their turn, courtesy of the power of "brain pollution." Note that there are not even mechanics for you to gain the coveted "jewgold" once this happens, so if you end up betraying big daddy Hitler's master race you don't even get anything for it.
Creator
The game creator is the lesser-known racist Kenneth Molyneux. He's a "reverend" of White supremacist cult calling itself the "Creativity Movement", which just happens to have the idea of a "Racial Holy War" as a part of its doctrines, and even uses the same abbreviation of "RaHoWa" for it (hence the ranting about the Holy Book of Creativity, their equivalent of the Bible). No relation to the other Molyneux, or another Molyneux with game ideas that don't work.
His works consist of RaHoWa, a blog, and his hilariously exaggerated White supremacy fapfic known as "White Empire", which features a Gary Stu self-insert, wannabe Punisher, and Tom-Cruise-in-Top-Gun-ripoff known as "John Granger". Granger neutron bombs simple African villages. Then he dies along with his girlfriend to a Jewish suicide bomber(?), his friend tries to avenge them by infiltrating an underground race-mixing disco, and fails spectacularly. Then he joins the extermination of the Chinese in an Asian campaign and kills some Jewish nuclear combat engineers on the Asian side when the panic detonation fails due to some "Drakion energy field generator made by white science stopping any nuclear detonation in its vicinity". The story then ends abruptly as the next generation of children go around LARP'ing King Arthur's knights and the world celebrates victory. And the capital city of the empire is... Klassengrad. Yes, as in Russian; the author is naming the city after Ben Klassen (see below), who was a Ukrainian escapee from the mainly-Russian Red Terror.
Men of the White Empire are vegan, eat fruits, raw vegetables and nuts, work out like fuck, admire each other's manly skills and muscles and assets, while women are in the back as childmakers. Make of that what you will.
So in Conclusion...
The game is a Pen-and-Paper version of /pol/, and the original writer of this whole article is a butthurt liberal from Reddit.
TL;DR - A nutty, racist game made by an unhinged hate group. It doesn't make sense as a game because it's designed to be recruitment material, and fails horribly at both.