The ISIS has reportedly released a video riding on the fame of a computer game meant to entice and recruit teens into its fold. The recruitment video was patterned after the Grand Theft Auto 5 video game.

Footages from the GTA 5 were incorporated in the recruitment video, along with the ISIS group's logo. The video showed characters dressed as civilians while shooting military and police characters. Real footage of improvised explosive devices detonating at the exact time a convoy of vehicles drives by were also seen. U.S. soldiers were shown gunned down by snipers. All these while virtual fighters shout "Allahu Akbar!"

Cut and edited to be played at three and a half minutes, the video targets to "raise the morale of the mujahedin and to train children and youth how to battle the West and to strike terror into the hearts of those who oppose the Islamic State," Forbes said, citing Egyptian media reports. Experts believed the recruitment video meant to "desensitize young people to violence."

Released on September 2013 for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, GTA 5 was developed by Rockstar North as an open world, action-adventure video game. It was published by Rockstar Games.

Shahid Butt, a convicted terrorist, told Sky News the ISIS gets to enjoy a foothold among the children and young people through these violent games. "You got an 8 or 9-year-old child playing those kind of violent games with heads blowing off and limbs blowing off, what kind of mentality is that kid going to have? You dehumanized that person. To go and fight in Syria is as easy as going on holiday to Disneyland. Because you've made it easy!"

It has yet to be known how Rockstar will react to their video game being used as a terrorist's recruitment tool, especially since it is set to release an enhanced edition on November 2014 for Xbox One and PlayStation 4. It will then be released on January 2015 for Microsoft Windows.

Netizens on portal gamespot.com, however, urged banning violent games. "I got a baaad feeling about this. If they train children well, they're probably becoming a best player [sic], so someday they will grow up like an IS solider and we will underestimate them greatly. We can't let that happen. We gotta do something about that," member MM377 said.

Apart from the video, ISIS has extensively used social media to relay its message. A snippet of the video is available here.