LOS ANGELES (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 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.
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I'd play it.
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You know, you'd think I might be outraged by this, but I'm not. I think that film/music/video games should be a realm of total free speech, where one's imagination can be given complete free reign. It's why I have absolutely no problem with Grand Theft Auto and stuff like that. It's better to kill people in a game on a screen than in real life.
Is this Kennedy game in bad taste? The worst. But if the market will bear it, I have absolutely no problem with it.
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punkdavid wrote:
You know, you'd think I might be outraged by this, but I'm not. I think that film/music/video games should be a realm of total free speech, where one's imagination can be given complete free reign. It's why I have absolutely no problem with Grand Theft Auto and stuff like that. It's better to kill people in a game on a screen than in real life.
Is this Kennedy game in bad taste? The worst. But if the market will bear it, I have absolutely no problem with it.
--PunkDavid (moderator of a dead board)
I'm not saying that the authors of this game don't have a right to make the game. I'm real big on free speech as well. However, that free speech also includes people's rights to say that this is a disgusting concept, and accept the negative publicity that may arise.
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i read an article here in minneapolis about how "Desensitized" people are becoming. they did a story on how some kid was shot, and dropped off at the cub foods front entrace on the curb, and people did nothing, and just walked by the dying/dead body. because they are so used to it.
im an advocate of free speech, but...i dont agree with making games in these manners. kids get their hands on it and they are very impressionable at a young age. no they arent going to go out and kill a president. but the word desensitized really means something here.
i read an article here in minneapolis about how "Desensitized" people are becoming. they did a story on how some kid was shot, and dropped off at the cub foods front entrace on the curb, and people did nothing, and just walked by the dying/dead body. because they are so used to it.
im an advocate of free speech, but...i dont agree with making games in these manners. kids get their hands on it and they are very impressionable at a young age. no they arent going to go out and kill a president. but the word desensitized really means something here.
shouldnt the parent be aware of the types of games their kids are playing at such a young and impressionable age?
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62strat wrote:
i read an article here in minneapolis about how "Desensitized" people are becoming. they did a story on how some kid was shot, and dropped off at the cub foods front entrace on the curb, and people did nothing, and just walked by the dying/dead body. because they are so used to it.
Last month, a few blocks from my house, three kids killed a homeless man. After making him buy them cigarettes, they took him down near the RR tracks and kicked him and beat him until he died. One of the kids said that it was "just like Vice City". Then they pressed his face on a hot grill so they could hear his flesh sizzle, and for good measure, they shit on his head before leaving him.
The point I'm making is that Vice City didn't make these kids do this, they were obviously way fucked up already. Everybody is entitled to their opinions about the content of games/movies/music, but in the end, I will always stand up for an author's rights, no matter how distasteful.
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Peeps wrote:
62strat wrote:
i read an article here in minneapolis about how "Desensitized" people are becoming. they did a story on how some kid was shot, and dropped off at the cub foods front entrace on the curb, and people did nothing, and just walked by the dying/dead body. because they are so used to it.
im an advocate of free speech, but...i dont agree with making games in these manners. kids get their hands on it and they are very impressionable at a young age. no they arent going to go out and kill a president. but the word desensitized really means something here.
shouldnt the parent be aware of the types of games their kids are playing at such a young and impressionable age?
yup. i wasnt putting any blame on the game makers at all.
yup. i wasnt putting any blame on the game makers at all.
sorry, didnt mean to imply that you did, but i meant more along the kids being desensitised, its up to the parents to be aware of what their kids are buying/playing
I'll have to get my hands on this just rid myself of the guilt of killing Osama over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over
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Echoes wrote:
I'd play it.
Me too.
What's the difference between this and any other video game in which people are killed? This one has a name and face? Oh, ok..so nameless faceless murder is ok. It's a video game kids, relax.
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