November 22, 200421 yr 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. Thats beyond belief. :mad :
November 22, 200421 yr Thats really messed up....I usually dont complain at all about video game violence...but to make money on something that really happened like that...thats seriously messed up. I wouldnt want someone making a game out of someone in my familys death.
November 22, 200421 yr Of course the media has now given this horrible game attention and it will sell like hotcakes. Dumb. Nobody would have even known if the media hadn't made a big deal out of it.
November 22, 200421 yr Next thing we'll have 9/11 the video game. :thumbdown 619407[/snapback] in 50 years maybe. we already have vdeo games involving d-day and ww2.
November 22, 200421 yr Author Next thing we'll have 9/11 the video game.? :thumbdown 619407[/snapback] in 50 years maybe. we already have vdeo games involving d-day and ww2. 619412[/snapback] Theres a difference between assassinating the president and showing acts of valor.
November 22, 200421 yr Next thing we'll have 9/11 the video game.?? :thumbdown 619407[/snapback] in 50 years maybe. we already have vdeo games involving d-day and ww2. 619412[/snapback] Theres a difference between assassinating the president and showing acts of valor. 619417[/snapback] no im not saying this video game is ok, i was just responding to chewbacca who was mentioning a 9/11 game. i was just saying that maybe in 50-60 years it might be possible even if its wrong (which it would be).
November 22, 200421 yr Author Next thing we'll have 9/11 the video game.?? :thumbdown 619407[/snapback] in 50 years maybe. we already have vdeo games involving d-day and ww2. 619412[/snapback] Theres a difference between assassinating the president and showing acts of valor. 619417[/snapback] no im not saying this video game is ok, i was just responding to chewbacca who was mentioning a 9/11 game. i was just saying that maybe in 50-60 years it might be possible even if its wrong (which it would be). 619422[/snapback] I know. Theres a difference, if it was a game where you could decide differently to protect JFK and change the course of history than I'd have no problem. Just like on Pearl Harbor, they're showing heroic acts trying to save the people, not trying to kill and see how close you were to historically JFK's death.
November 22, 200421 yr Next thing we'll have 9/11 the video game.?? :thumbdown 619407[/snapback] in 50 years maybe. we already have vdeo games involving d-day and ww2. 619412[/snapback] Theres a difference between assassinating the president and showing acts of valor. 619417[/snapback] no im not saying this video game is ok, i was just responding to chewbacca who was mentioning a 9/11 game. i was just saying that maybe in 50-60 years it might be possible even if its wrong (which it would be). 619422[/snapback] I know. Theres a difference, if it was a game where you could decide differently to protect JFK and change the course of history than I'd have no problem. Just like on Pearl Harbor, they're showing heroic acts trying to save the people, not trying to kill and see how close you were to historically JFK's death. 619425[/snapback] thats true, i agree with that.
November 22, 200421 yr Nobody complained when they made games which allowed you to take the place of Japanese fighter pilots attacking Pearl Harbor. Oh well.
November 22, 200421 yr Disgusting. Let me guess you get be one one of these characters: Cuban militant Russian KGB guy Disgruntled postal worker Lone man CIA-FBI guy
November 22, 200421 yr Why we are at it lets get rid of GTA, you kill people in that. And lets get rid of every other war game, like Medal of Honor, etc. no need to "re-live" these events either.
November 22, 200421 yr Author Why we are at it lets get rid of GTA, you kill people in that. And lets get rid of every other war game, like Medal of Honor, etc. no need to "re-live" these events either. 619621[/snapback] See above argument. I agree GTA shouldn't be a game anymore, I personally don't care for it, and also like I said, acts of valor should be made into video games, not horrific acts like the assassination.
November 22, 200421 yr Anyway Happy JFK Assination Anny everyone. Is there anyone on this board that was acctually around 41 years ago?
November 22, 200421 yr Author Anyway Happy JFK Assination Anny everyone. Is there anyone on this board that was acctually around 41 years ago? 619739[/snapback] Arnie. :plain And its not a happy occasion...
November 23, 200421 yr i should buy it. 620546[/snapback] It looks hawt. I looked up the screen shots for it.
November 23, 200421 yr Next thing we'll have 9/11 the video game. :thumbdown 619407[/snapback] There already is a 9/11 computer game. 9/11: THE VIDEO GAME Nov 14 2004 Sick scenes of tragedy Survivors call for ban By Terry O'Hanlon A GORY video game is cashing in on the 9/11 Twin Towers tragedy. The sick sequences show the World Trade Center towers collapsing and even use pretend images of real-life people caught up in the disaster. The makers of Survivor, German-based Replay Studios, boast: "The player will encounter massive crowds of people running in panic. Cars, people, walls, burning objects will fly through the air, collide and cause damage." It adds: "The player will experience the most dangerous disaster situations and have to use all his skills to survive the horror ...the player is free to rescue persons - and become a hero - find hidden secrets and even loot." The game - which also features other disasters like the sinking of the Titanic and the WW2 atom bomb drop on Hiroshima - has outraged 9/11 survivors. A member of the British survivors group said: "This is beneath contempt. To attempt to make money out of the deaths of so many defies description. These people must be sick - the game should be banned." Tory homeland security spokesman Patrick Mercer said: "To use this as a form of entertainment verges on the sick." And even the official PlayStation.2 magazine - which has regularly featured gory video games - described the 9/11 sequences as "arguably the most tasteless shots ever". Replay Studios are in talks about selling the game - but so far there have been no takers. http://www.sundaymirror.co.uk/news/tm_obje...-name_page.html
November 25, 200421 yr There's no reason for any of these games. They interviewed the guy on TV and he said that anyone who completes the game like they did that day, will win $10,000. Anyone who purchases or defends this game should be immediately sent out of the country and thrown into the sea.
November 26, 200421 yr Its just a game. If some ignorant little turds learn some US history from it, it'll be valuable (assuming it has any historical validity of course). Were any of you complainers even born yet when JFK got whacked? I was. I even remember the day it happened and where I was at the time the news came in. Kindergarten - they sent us home early that day. The teacher was visibly shook up as she told the class someone had shot the president. 620530[/snapback] You and I are about the same age- I was in first grade. I remember watching the funeral on TV and my mom and dad crying. Yes, it's a game but it glorifies a heinous act. I don't agree with the game but I blame the distributors. You can make all the games in the world, but without the distributors, you've got squat. Why isn't anyone vilifying them? They're really the ones in it to make the quick buck. Oh- and the notion of a 9/11 game will be out sooner than everyone thinks. I give it 5-10 years- maybe that long- if people think that JFK Reloaded is selling like hotcakes, then 9/11 Reloaded might not be that far behind. Look at the company that was minting coins from scrap metal found at Ground Zero? They made a killing off of sales before outrage forced them to pull the goods. Money IS the root of all evil.
November 26, 200421 yr This is just wrong. They shouldn't have made a video game of his assassination. It was a sad and horrible event, and this is something that shouldn't be made into a video game.
November 26, 200421 yr Anyone who purchases or defends this game should be immediately sent out of the country and thrown into the sea. 621503[/snapback] YAY for censorship! I am in no way defending this game, it is sick, disgusting and repulsive, however there are things that are far worse and more detrimental to society that you can buy in stores than a video game replicating the JFK assasination. Also, I doubt you'll see this game in any major stores that sell video games like Best Buy, WalMart, Toys R Us, EBGames, etc. It will most likely be available from a few small off beat stores and some mail order, that's it.
November 26, 200421 yr If the game is rare it makes it even more favorable. Now it has novelty attached to it as well, its not just another dumb game that shows up at best buy and no one buys it
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