JFK Reloaded

On the 41st anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s assassination, Glasgow video game company Traffic has released JFK Reloaded. A reconstruction of the scene and events around the Texas School Book Depository that tragic day, the game puts Oswald’s rifle in the hands of players.

From a Boston Herald article and Traffic‘s press release:
“We’ve created the game with the belief that Oswald was the only person that fired the shots on that day, although this recreation proves how immensely difficult his task was,” (Traffic’s Kirk) Ewing said.

This is so insensitive and disrespectful!
I can’t believe some people have gone this far and this low.

[Via: Boing Boing]

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8 thoughts on “JFK Reloaded”

  1. I know! I was having this little “spiff” this morning with my boyfriend about this. I guess his argument was, “Why are you not as bothered with all the Vietnam War and other video games where you can be a sniper and killer?” But I mean, this is real history. It’s where YOU are Oswald and shooting a president while he was driving by. This really did happen! Argh… I don’t know how to explain, but I do know that it’s terribly wrong. I just can’t believe the maker of this game was trying to convince us that it’s supposed to be “educational”. **rolls eyes**

  2. Pretty cool stuff, but 10$(or sorry 9.99$)
    If you want to save a little money ? I can mail u
    patched and unlocked ver.only for a half of that(mgqazz@bk.ru)its really gonna workitout.

  3. This video game is revolting. The maker should be respectful to the Kennedys and this country and not market this crap.

  4. I can see how someone could easily find this game unsettling, but that’s exactly what it is.. a game. It’s not a celebration of a murder of a national hero, it is simply a tool that is meant to challenge your thinking about the event that occured on that day.

    Would we really be having this argument if someone released a game that re-created the assaination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand? Or President McKinley? Would it be so horrible, if we created a game in which you got to assasinate Adolf Hitler? Would that also be so “teriibly wrong”? One cannot say that killing hoards of faceless enemy soldiers in a war simulation based on actual events is any more disrespetful than killing one president. Who’s to say that the death of one man is any more or less important than another? Where do you draw the line?

  5. Yes, the game is somewhat graphic. However, to those that are truly interested in trying to learn the truth it is an exercise in how the lone gunman may have succeeded. I don’t care about the points, but am more interested in bullet trajectories. Future versions should include being able to fire from the grassy knoll.

    I feel sorry that this “game” is disrepectful to Caroline. Ted I could care less about since he should still be in prison (probably for more things than we care to know about, but more specifically for Mary Jo).

  7. It’s ok too kill people from iraq, vietnam, iran,
    germans, and anyone else in video games so long as their not american’s GROW UP.

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