JFK Recreation video game?

[*MIBabe03*]

Video game simulates Kennedy assassination
Developers say program designed to undermine conspiracy theories

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A screen shot from the video game "JFK Reloaded."

Updated: 5:35 p.m. ET Nov. 21, 2004LOS ANGELES - A new video game to be released Monday allows players to simulate the assassination of President Kennedy.

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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.

Oswald's perch recreated
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.

Does anybody else think this is really messed up?

[Hollow]

[Kitt]

Originally posted by Princess2003
Does anybody else think this is really messed up?

I like words. I like to put them together in a way that will express what I want to to say in an interesting and succinct way. I am speechless at the moment about what I just read. I'll try to eventually organize my thoughts and get back to you.
What an 'every swear word in the book' bit of trash that is.

[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by Kitt
I like words. I like to put them together in a way that will express what I want to to say in an interesting and succinct way. I am speechless at the moment about what I just read. I'll try to eventually organize my thoughts and get back to you.
What an 'every swear word in the book' bit of trash that is.

That is really sick! The game, not you Kitt!

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[Penny Lane]

Originally posted by safety pin

Why on earth do you think that is funny Sarah?

[ThirteenInchEscape]

I saw a show on the discovery channel about the magic bullet that had it all recreated....and that got the point across that the magic bullet theory is definately possible (there are other non-sequitars besides the physics though)


I cant imagine what could be gained by playing it...

[MandieR1980]

I think that is very wrong and I hope someone from his family sues the company.

[Don Corleone]

Originally posted by ThirteenInchEscape
I saw a show on the discovery channel about the magic bullet that had it all recreated....and that got the point across that the magic bullet theory is definately possible (there are other non-sequitars besides the physics though)


I cant imagine what could be gained by playing it...

And the bullet all of the sudden shows up on a stretcher at Parkland Hospital in perfect condition?? Not gonna fly. They shot bullets into the wrist bones of cadavers that when examined the bullets were pretty damaged. The "magic bullet" entered and exited two people 5 times before showing up on a stretcher with no distress on it at all. And Kennedy was hit in the front of his head not the back like the Warren Commision would like everyone to believe. There was definately more than one shooter. If you study it hard I think that most people will come to that conclusion.

[Hollow]

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Why on earth do you think that is funny Sarah?

first of all.. i've been meaning to get this out for a while, and this is a good time to say that this board is the only place i have ever seen in my life that questions people when they find stuff like that funny. everyone i know does.

and when questioned, it makes it difficult to explain. the JFK thing wasn't funny, but the idea of making a fun video game about it is hilarious. cause like.. making a video game about it is totally the opposite of what normally should happen.

not that i’m directing this at anyone, but go ahead and attack me because i’ll just sit back and laugh at how much you care about other peoples opinions. don’t think I’m trying to starta fight either, because i’m not going to contribute to it. this board is too sensitive, which is why i’ve decided to start only posting on the chit chat main board occasionally. too many people piss me off here and my opinions cause too much controversy.

thank you. that is all. may the force be with you.

- bitch

[ThirteenInchEscape]

Trust me, I didnt put a shred of belief into the magic bullet until I saw this, they shot one through a log and it went 41 centimeters in and was relatively perfect, but alot of other things is wrong,and they proved that the badge man wasnt on the grassy knoll (how do you spell that?), however, it failed to mention the ricochet bullet that hit someone in the tunnel, and the fact that he couldnt have shot that many bullets, there was a possibility someone was below the street shooting through the drain. Something was wrong, it's just hard to distinguish what.


The RFK assasination is actually more disturbing, since they claimed he shot 13 bullets out of an 8 bullet revolver, and he doesnt remember, it's believed that someone may have used MK-ULTRA on him, making him a Manchurian Candidate.

[Zebra 3]

I was born shortly before JFK's assasination and been a gamer since the beginning. I've played all kinds including M-rated ones, but I will never a play a game which I play Oswald. Here's the JFK game site: JFK Reload and here's another online game of questionable taste: John Kerry's Silver Star.

[Don Corleone]

Originally posted by ThirteenInchEscape
Trust me, I didnt put a shred of belief into the magic bullet until I saw this, they shot one through a log and it went 41 centimeters in and was relatively perfect, but alot of other things is wrong,and they proved that the badge man wasnt on the grassy knoll (how do you spell that?), however, it failed to mention the ricochet bullet that hit someone in the tunnel, and the fact that he couldnt have shot that many bullets, there was a possibility someone was below the street shooting through the drain. Something was wrong, it's just hard to distinguish what.


The RFK assasination is actually more disturbing, since they claimed he shot 13 bullets out of an 8 bullet revolver, and he doesnt remember, it's believed that someone may have used MK-ULTRA on him, making him a Manchurian Candidate.

There is a book called The Killing Of A President that goes over all of the angles and senerios of how he was shot. The one from the drain to me is the most reasonable. Look at the Zapruder(?) film and you can see him going from front to back to the left after the shot. The grassy knoll shot would have beem more of a side shot. I've been to that area and the drain shot was the perfect shot. Pictures of him at the autopsy show a hole in the front of his head and a big exit wound the top and middle of the back of his head. To get to he drain you have to go on the other side of the triple overpass. Once inside you can look up and have a perfect shot because the car is on a downward slope. They even have witnesses that say they say Oswald eating lunch on a different floor at the time of the killing.

[Brian Damage]

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