11/24/2004 11:55:42 PM|||Joe|||google news link

Basically, Traffic Management Limited, a Scottish video game company, released JFK Reloaded earlier this week. The game re-creates the assassination of JFK, and lets players take the role of assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The game depicts the presidential limo as it cruises through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, and allows the player to fire at the president from Oswald's perch in the school book depository building. After shooting at Kennedy, the player sees a slow motion replay and an analysis of where--and who--the bullets hit; very good ballistics analysis.

Somehow I disapprove of this explantion for the game.

Kirk Ewing, the managing director of Traffic, says the purpose of the game is to provide a realistic environment for users to test the lone gunman theory. The gamer who can most accurately replicate Oswald's shooting on November 22, 1963, can win up to $100,000, according to the Web site.

"We genuinely believe that if we get enough people participating we'll be able to disprove once and for all any notion that someone else was involved in the assassination of President Kennedy," Ewing says in a press release.

This game is pretty bad, and it does push the limits on what is acceptable out of games. The developer is in Europe so they don't have our same perspective on events. This is similar Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series is a major hit, because we like to be bad, but dont want to go to jail for it, so games are good at that. I see this as a big blow to the "anti-censorship" gaming group, since this invokes emotion in people to censor games from this material.

No one complains about Counterstrike, SWAT, Battlefield Vietnam, etc. Why? Cause America wins in those. Sure there's the groups are against blood, but who cares. Overall we approve of those games. I like them, its fun to play, but thats not the argument. People yet again are divided sharply on this game.

If you don't want your children playing [any] game, dont let them. Parent.

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