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New Video Game Recreates Kennedy Assassination
theodp writes "Lee Harvey Oswald-wannabes will be able to simulate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy when Traffic Games releases the $9.99 JFK Reloaded on Monday to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas. 'It is despicable,' said a spokesman for Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother."
1. Create cheap and bad game that offends everyone
2. ???
3. Profit!
/Aisle seat, please
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I have often thought about that too. Some games are memorials to the fallen, at least in my mind. It remembers them as heros. I do not think a game where you played a german gunning down troops at normandy would be appropriate.
the posters comment went beyond this, He said that we were not as free as our masters would have us believe. He said this regarding threats on the life of the president. This to imply that we arent allowed freedom of speech to make threats on other peoples lives. The game is protected speech in my mind. Its in poor taste and cheap in my mind, but it is within the developers rights. I just dont think a threat on a life is protected speech. Thankfully, the SCOTUS agrees with me
Also, as far as "good" people being killed... im sure there were good germans who died. Probably some poor iraqi farmers who joined the army for money to feed his family. Its far and few between, in my mind, that someone really deserves to die in war. I do think that soldiers are noble in thier sacrafice, and should be honored. Games like the medal of honor series do this to the best thier medium can allow. I do wonder how much this game honors kennedy.
Perhaps if the warren report is wrong and this game proves it, it does honor him. I just dont want to have this discussion 30 years from now with a 9/11 flight sim to disprove the commisions results.