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Waco, Tekken Re-Interpreted For Exhibit

Games · Fps · 2003-10-09 23:53 · posted by simoniker · from the but-is-it-art? dept. · 43 comments

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the forthcoming New York unveiling of a game revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas incident involving the siege of the Branch Davidian cult. The official site for this controversial art exhibit/game, called 'Waco Resurrection', explains: "...gamers enter the mind and form of a resurrected David Koresh... [and] are bombarded with a soundstream of government 'psy-ops', FBI negotiators, [and] the voice of God" as they "voice messianic texts drawn from the book of revelation, wield a variety of weapons from the Mount Carmel cache and influence the behavior of both followers and opponents by radiating a charismatic aura." The creators, C-Level, are also showing their Tekken Torture Tournament exhibit at the same venue, a PlayStation setup that "converts virtual on-screen [Tekken 3] damage into bracing, non-lethal, electric shocks."