Has anyone heard of this Online Game?
It’s a recreation of the assassination of JFK and you play the part of Lee Harvey Oswald…
Why in the world would anyone want to make such a tasteless game?
JFK was not a dictator or an enslaver of peoples. He was not a conquer or a proponent of Genocide. I know that ‘who’ is right and wrong in the political scheme is based of perspective. But it still seams wrong to make game of the death of a world leader. Especially one who was actually assassinated.
What comes next, the Princess Diana driving simulator?
It all seams kind-of sad.
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JFK-Reloaded
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JFK-Reloaded
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I've read about JFK-Reloaded, and I have to give the programmers high marks for concept, but very low marks for actual implementation.
One of the first newspapers I remember reading was in June, 1968, when JFK's brother, Bobby, was assassinated. That was the same year that Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed as well. Many world leaders were victims at that time. Conspiracy theories abounded, and throughout the late 60s and 1970s the question kept coming back: was there a conspiracy behind the murder of JFK?
This question, coupled with Watergate and the scandals (now somewhat mild by comparison, it seems) that rocked Congress during those years eroded a great deal of trust in the Government. Not to say people trusted the Government all that much in the first place - but whereas before it seemed the Government was full of mostly harmless people making stupid mistakes, now it seemed that there were forces that were deliberately out to get people who stood in their way, using the Government as their sword and shield.
So... the conspiracy question is a really fundamental one that a lot of people, especially in Hollywood (Oliver Stone's JFK, the X-Files, and so on), have liked to play on. The fundamental premise was: Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't have possibly done it on his own.
The concept behind JFK-Reloaded is that, yes, given the simulation capabilities of modern computers, Oswald indeed could have acted alone, and you are given the opportunity to see just how he did it. That is something that a lot of people, starting with the Warren Commission, would have liked to have had available to them at the time of their investigation.
The implementation of the program, however, is ghoulish. With all the subtlety of your typical FPS game, JFK-Reloaded gives you lots of options, including gunning down Jackie Kennedy or Governor Connally, or just watching the bullets rip through JFK himself - all with anatomically detailed precision. You can even make your own Zapruder film of the event (I don't think there is a piece of fictional movie footage that can surpass the shock value of the Zapruder tape, but you get a chance to do it anyways).
So, it's one thing to have the Warren Commission tell you Oswald acted alone; it's another to take the virtual rifle in your hands and prove it to yourself he could have; it's still another thing to turn the slaying of a U.S. President into an interactive arcade game. While I don't begrudge investigators and conspiracy theorists' right to demonstrate their points graphically, it's something else to make it a form of entertainment. That is where, I think, JFK-Reloaded has gone too far.
One of the first newspapers I remember reading was in June, 1968, when JFK's brother, Bobby, was assassinated. That was the same year that Martin Luther King, Jr., was killed as well. Many world leaders were victims at that time. Conspiracy theories abounded, and throughout the late 60s and 1970s the question kept coming back: was there a conspiracy behind the murder of JFK?
This question, coupled with Watergate and the scandals (now somewhat mild by comparison, it seems) that rocked Congress during those years eroded a great deal of trust in the Government. Not to say people trusted the Government all that much in the first place - but whereas before it seemed the Government was full of mostly harmless people making stupid mistakes, now it seemed that there were forces that were deliberately out to get people who stood in their way, using the Government as their sword and shield.
So... the conspiracy question is a really fundamental one that a lot of people, especially in Hollywood (Oliver Stone's JFK, the X-Files, and so on), have liked to play on. The fundamental premise was: Lee Harvey Oswald couldn't have possibly done it on his own.
The concept behind JFK-Reloaded is that, yes, given the simulation capabilities of modern computers, Oswald indeed could have acted alone, and you are given the opportunity to see just how he did it. That is something that a lot of people, starting with the Warren Commission, would have liked to have had available to them at the time of their investigation.
The implementation of the program, however, is ghoulish. With all the subtlety of your typical FPS game, JFK-Reloaded gives you lots of options, including gunning down Jackie Kennedy or Governor Connally, or just watching the bullets rip through JFK himself - all with anatomically detailed precision. You can even make your own Zapruder film of the event (I don't think there is a piece of fictional movie footage that can surpass the shock value of the Zapruder tape, but you get a chance to do it anyways).
So, it's one thing to have the Warren Commission tell you Oswald acted alone; it's another to take the virtual rifle in your hands and prove it to yourself he could have; it's still another thing to turn the slaying of a U.S. President into an interactive arcade game. While I don't begrudge investigators and conspiracy theorists' right to demonstrate their points graphically, it's something else to make it a form of entertainment. That is where, I think, JFK-Reloaded has gone too far.
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ClosetOtaku - Posts: 927
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3vil...
on a similar note, you guys hear about the white supremasist record label ?
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Shatterheart wrote: Is the game a free download or are they making money. As far as I knew it was simply to shut up all the conspricy people....
JFK Reloaded wrote: Pay just $9.99 to unlock control of LEE HARVEY OSWALD. Recreate the assassination. Watch action replays from any angle. And explore a shot by shot analysis. Match Oswald’s shots, and win up to $100,000.
Sounds more like a game made for profit then an answer to conspiracy.
Depend on it. God's work done in God's way will never lack God's supply. He is too wise a God to frustrate His purposes for lack of funds, and He can just as easily supply them ahead of time as afterwards, and He much prefers doing so.
- J. Hudson Taylor
- J. Hudson Taylor
[SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]I remember that one fateful day when Coach took me aside. I knew what was coming. "You don't have to tell me," I said. "I'm off the team, aren't I?" "Well," said Coach, "you never were really ON the team. You made that uniform you're wearing out of rags and towels, and your helmet is a toy space helmet. You show up at practice and then either steal the ball and make us chase you to get it back, or you try to tackle people at inappropriate times." It was all true what he was saying. And yet, I thought something is brewing inside the head of this Coach. He sees something in me, some kind of raw talent that he can mold. But that's when I felt the handcuffs go on.
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Bowen Samdi wrote:I've tried it. Can't get past the tunnel, for whatever reason
that is horrible
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