New tasteless video game out!!!

[zzyzzx]

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/21/kennedy.game.reut/

Kennedy assassination re-created in video game

Monday, November 22, 2004

LOS ANGELES, California (Reuters) -- A new video game to be released on Monday allows players to simulate the assassination of U.S. President John F. 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.

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 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.

[Faustus]

This news is SO 24 hours ago!

Yeah I heard about this about 5 times yesterday, its still as stupid today as it was then.

[Capmaster]

I'll bet the Kennedy family gets an injunction against its release or to stop its continued sales.

That's pushing it too far :P

[zzyzzx]

I'm still wondering if you get to see Kennedy's brain splatter all over the place.

[smearbrick1]

What's next?

MLK: Reloaded
Malcolm X: Reloaded
John Lennon: Reloaded

What a bullshit idea for a game.

Why don't they take this just a step further and make it an airline hijacking game. You could play as either a helpless passenger or a terrorist with a box cutter.

[northcat_8]

This game is complete bullshit and the makers should be shot.

Reading the article, it seems like a pretty lame ass game anyway.

Like I said...nothing is taboo for today's youth

[VCDHunter]

This game is complete bullshit and the makers should be shot.

In the head ? From a school book depository ?

I wont play it because it looks shit and I already get enough sniper practice playing True Combat and Urban Terror.

[zzyzzx]

What's next?

MLK: Reloaded
Malcolm X: Reloaded
John Lennon: Reloaded

What a bullshit idea for a game.

Why don't they take this just a step further and make it an airline hijacking game. You could play as either a helpless passenger or a terrorist with a box cutter.

I don't think any of these other assinations can match the brain splattering of JFK. I still rememner from (I think somtime in the early 90's) there was one of those tasteless cartoons in Hustler that showed a person in the post office deciding between the regular JFK stamp and the other JFK stamp that showed his head blown open. Hilarious. Wish I had a scan for that.

[smearbrick1]

I don't think any of these other assinations can match the brain splattering of JFK. I still rememner from (I think somtime in the early 90's) there was one of those tasteless cartoons in Hustler that showed a person in the post office deciding between the regular JFK stamp and the other JFK stamp that showed his head blown open. Hilarious. Wish I had a scan for that.

Yeah... real funny.

[Faustus]

I'd rather play john wilkes booth anyway. At least thats long enough ago that its fair game.

[888888]

I think the idea has potential if the game development is pulled off well and really was made to "demonstrate a lone gunman was able to kill the president.". However, this just looks like some budget crap made to exploit contoversy. As for re-enacting an assasination, I don't see what's the bid deal. You can play as a nazi in BF 1942.

[ViRaL1]

GET YOUR HAND OUTTA MY POCKET!!!

[zzyzzx]

Just found some more game related pics:

http://www.jfk-reloaded.com/gallery/screenshots.asp

[thecoalman]

That really goes beyond tasteless. Wouldn't mind taking a few pop shots at the makers for real.

[Doramius]

I'd buy the game just to resell it for $350 on eBay 10 years later, still sealed in the box.

We'll probably see "Colombine Unleashed" sometime in the future if this games makes it out.

That'd be interesting though. A game that bases it's views on terrorist children who based their views on video games, with views based on terrorism, to be aimed at children. There's a circle for ya.

[zzyzzx]

I would love to play this game a few times. I hope it has good sound effects.

[Faustus]

I'd buy the game just to resell it for $350 on eBay 10 years later, still sealed in the box.

We'll probably see "Colombine Unleashed" sometime in the future if this games makes it out.

That'd be interesting though. A game that bases it's views on terrorist children who based their views on video games, with views based on terrorism, to be aimed at children. There's a circle for ya.

Makes it out? Its been out. Its an online download purchase type thing though,no box.