Video game simulates Kennedy assassination

estranged4life · #1 11-21-2004, 08:31 PM

MSNBC

LOS ANGELES - A new video game to be released Monday allows players to simulate the assassination of President Kennedy.

The release of "JFK Reloaded" is timed to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas and was designed to demonstrate a lone gunman was able to kill the president.

"It is despicable," said David Smith, a spokesman for Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother. He was informed of the game on Friday but declined further comment.

Kirk Ewing, managing director of the Scottish firm Traffic Games, which developed the game, said he understood some people would be horrified at the concept, but he insisted he and his team had nothing but respect for Kennedy and for history.

"We believe that the only thing we're exploiting is new technology," said Ewing, a former documentary filmmaker and senior executive with Scottish developer VIS, responsible for games like "State of Emergency." He said he sent Edward Kennedy a letter before the game's release.

Ewing said the game was designed to undermine the theory there was some shadowy plot behind the assassination. "We believe passionately there was no conspiracy," he said.

Oswald's perch recreated

Traffic Games said the objective was for a player to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade from assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's digitally recreated sixth-floor perch in the Texas School Book Depository.

Points are awarded or subtracted based on how accurately the shots match the official version of events as documented in by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination.

Shooting the image of Kennedy in the right spots in the right sequence adds to the score, while "errors" like shooting first lady Jacqueline Kennedy lead to deductions.

Each shot can be replayed in slow motion, and the bullets can be tracked as they travel and pass through Kennedy's digitally recreated body. Players can choose to see blood by pressing a "blood effects" option.

Players can view the motorcade from a number of angles, including the perspective of filmmaker Abraham Zapruder and a view from the "grassy knoll" where some conspiracy theorists believe a second gunman was stationed.

The game will be available via download for $9.99.

DeadliestPoison · #2 11-21-2004, 08:36 PM

... Wow, that's a lame (and not to mention, pretty stupid) idea for a videogame.

amber · #3 11-21-2004, 08:37 PM

that's weird, and gross. And i don't think there was a lone gunman, so i object on that level, too.

estranged4life · #4 11-21-2004, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by DeadliestPoison

... Wow, that's a lame (and not to mention, pretty stupid) idea for a videogame.

Pretty stupid if ya ask me...

The dumbing-down of American youth continues (If that is EVEN possible!)

Brian j.

madformac · #5 11-21-2004, 08:39 PM

dissention · #6 11-21-2004, 08:40 PM

How sick and perverted. Those are moral values for ya. It'll sell in the millions.

gldstwmn · #7 11-21-2004, 08:45 PM

I hope these people get the bejesus sued out of them.

estranged4life · #8 11-21-2004, 08:52 PM

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Originally Posted by dissention

How sick and perverted. Those are moral values for ya. It'll sell in the millions.

I wonder how long before we see games that recreate the OKC Murrah bombing & 9/11???

Brian j.

GypsySorcerer · #9 11-21-2004, 08:57 PM

Disgusting. I'm not a fan of video games for kids anyway, so............

DrummerDeanna · #10 11-22-2004, 10:23 AM

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Originally Posted by GypsySorcerer

Disgusting. I'm not a fan of video games for kids anyway, so............

I'm thinkin' this isn't a game for kids....but yeah they will end up playing it..

It used to bug me so much when I was working at a Hollywood Video store- these parents would come in with their thugged out 8 year old and rent Grand Theft Auto for them...SO disgusting...

This new game = disgusting

greatdarkwing · #11 11-22-2004, 10:55 AM

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Originally Posted by DrummerDeanna

I'm thinkin' this isn't a game for kids....but yeah they will end up playing it..

It used to bug me so much when I was working at a Hollywood Video store- these parents would come in with their thugged out 8 year old and rent Grand Theft Auto for them...SO disgusting...

This new game = disgusting

My little brother has that Grand Theft Auto game and it is REALLY SICK. And this looks no better....its all so disgusting

~Alex

DrummerDeanna · #12 11-22-2004, 12:09 PM

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Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

My little brother has that Grand Theft Auto game and it is REALLY SICK. And this looks no better....its all so disgusting

~Alex

My ex-boyfriend has GTA...BUT he's an adult...soo ya know I still think the game is horrid - but I just hate that people are letting little kids play it - it's just not appropriate...but then again who am I to say how people should raise their kids...

SuzeQuze · #13 11-22-2004, 12:17 PM

This game is in really poor taste, okay it's disgusting, I agree. WTF were these people thinking? A video game to debunk a possible myth of a second gunman is pretty misguided IMO. Bastards.

Villavic · #14 11-22-2004, 02:55 PM

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Originally Posted by estranged4life

I wonder how long before we see games that recreate the OKC Murrah bombing & 9/11???

Brian j.

HA! You are late, Brian.
Not games, but during late 2001 I received lot of (bad & ugly) jokes about 9/11. Pics with the twin towers in any situation you can imagine, new American Airlines mottos, what would happen if Irak wins the war, etc.. I prefer not to describe it just to respect you american guys, but be sure there were lot of this stuff.