Thread: F%$#ed up JFK video game

It is just a video game, there are a lot of violent games around.

I agree this game sucks Flex. Even if it were Shrub in the cross hairs it would still suck.

This can't posssibly be made in the US.
What's going on here? Are we not respected anymore?

Originally Posted by Vieope

It is just a video game, there are a lot of violent games around.

ya V, i understand that. But to me, that's completely disrespectful.

That's like having an airplane game and the goal is to fly it into the world trade center.

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This can't posssibly be made in the US.
What's going on here? Are we not respected anymore?

why would any other country respect us when we don't respect ourselves...

look at all the WWII and Vietnam games still being produced, there is not much difference...

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This can't posssibly be made in the US.
What's going on here? Are we not respected anymore?

Why would you ever think that?

Oh wait!! I KNOW I KNOW!!!

War in Iraq

Originally Posted by LAM

why would any other country respect us when we don't respect ourselves...

look at all the WWII and Vietnam games still being produced, there is not much difference...

ya, but this is a few steps further. this is a tragedy about a single person.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/11/21/ken...eut/index.html

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.

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That's twisted

Originally Posted by Flex

I just saw on the news this new video game (not sure if its computer or whatever) where you're a sniper and are looking through your scope as JFK rides through the city.

Your whole goal is to pick him off, just like in real life.

Talk about FUCKED up, huh? What is this world coming to?

Shows how low society has fallen!!!

Originally Posted by Flex

ya V, i understand that. But to me, that's completely disrespectful.

That's like having an airplane game and the goal is to fly it into the world trade center.

You beat me to it!!! Tasteless and classless IMO!!! But hey, thats just me

Originally Posted by Flex

ya, but this is a few steps further. this is a tragedy about a single person.

There is a good quote I will have to paraphrase, use Google if you like it:

The death of one is a tragedy, the death of many is just a statistic.

The trouble with quotes about death is that 99.999 percent of them are made by people who are still alive.
Joshua Bruns

A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Joseph Stalin

"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."

.. that disgusting.

You all might be singing a different song if, for example, your father's murder was made into an video game & people were watching a bullet pass through his brain for "enjoyment".

The game is way too personal, IMO.

Originally Posted by LAM

look at all the WWII and Vietnam games still being produced, there is not much difference...

It is all about perspective Flex, look how many video games about killing Sadam Hussein, Hitler, Bin Laden, Mussolini and others. It might be fun for us but disrespectful for others. I personally would not play a video game to kill JFK, I liked him.

Originally Posted by Vieope

[i]look how many video games about killing Sadam Hussein, Hitler, Bin Laden, Mussolini and others.

the DIFFERENCE is that they^ are notoriously evil men of history, Vieope. BIG difference.

look what busylivin' wrote......he's EXACTLY right.

Originally Posted by Flex

the DIFFERENCE is that they^ are notoriously evil men of history, Vieope. BIG difference.

For me and you yes. Millions of germans, italians and japaneses thought that Hitler was a nice fellow.

So i guess im the only one who cant wait to download it, huh?

Originally Posted by min0 lee

This can't posssibly be made in the US.
What's going on here? Are we not respected anymore?

not after the 3rd pic

Originally Posted by Mudge

There is a good quote I will have to paraphrase, use Google if you like it:

The death of one is a tragedy, the death of many is just a statistic.

Marilyn Manson?

Originally Posted by cman

not after the 3rd pic

Originally Posted by MaxMirkin

Marilyn Manson?

Emulated perhaps, Google found it right quick:

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." Stalin

damn, mudge... your legs are huge!

Originally Posted by Mudge

Emulated perhaps, Google found it right quick:

"A single death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic." Stalin

Should've known that one.

Well daddy taught us that years ago. How could you forget?

Some Bush supporters made it.

Originally Posted by perfectbody

Some Bush supporters made it.

In appropriate.

You're the person that was proclaiming your joy after ODB died... right?