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Would you consider this in poor taste?
For those who have slow modems and don’t want to go to the link, the gist of the article is that
And yes, it is in very poor taste.
Depends on how it’s presented. As described, it seems to be fairly documentary in nature. Do it exactly as history says it happens, or lose points.
But shooting four shots in an exact order isn’t a game, or a documentary. I’d be interested in seeing what the rest of the product is.
There was a documentary on last night where the assassination was recreated with some pretty spiffy CGI, and I was thinking “where can I download this game?” Now I know.
But…what if you want to be the guy on the Grassy Knoll?
Seriously, though…I also think it’s in bad taste. What next? Martin Luther King Jr.?
It’s kind of eerie. I wonder if this is how future generations will treat 9/11.
From what I’ve heard, the purpose of the game is to show that it could have been done by a lone gunman. The point of the game is to get all the shots off by yourself with the same results.
I recall reading about a shooting competition (held every year somewhere in the U.S.) that simulates the JFK assassination. The organizers set up platform at the same height as the book depository window Oswald was shooting from. Participants climb the platform and shoot at a moving target. The target is located at approximately the same distance Kennedy’s Lincoln was from Oswald, and is moving away from the platform at the same speed as the Lincoln was moving. From what I read, it is nearly impossible to hit the target once, let alone multiple times. Even with an accurate bolt-action rifle.
I assume the competition is not meant to disrespect the Kennedy family in any way. Instead, it is simply used to demonstrate the nearly impossible feat pulled off by Oswald. (Of course, the real point is to imply there were multiple shooters during the assassination attempt.)
I’ll try to find more info on this competition.
Please do, because every demo I have seen comes to the opposite conclusion…
I have a perhaps somewhat morbid interest in things like this. As a simulation, it lets you see the event from different viewpoints and that can be useful. But assigning points makes it too much like a game, and that’s in really poor taste.
And I thought the recently released Vietnam War sim was tacky.
Guess I better get cracking on that “Rape of Nanking” FPS, or maybe I should say FPF…
Is it in poor taste to kill him with a headshot on the first shot? And shoot no one else?
Is it in poor taste to kill them all before they make the left onto Elm?
Why is this game so eerily attractive?
I mean, add the crazy stuff that Oliver Stone believes…you could have Jack Ruby running around, planning to kill Oswald…and Clay Shaw doing whatever he does.
Yep, “KENNEDY CONSPIRACY”! Oughtta make a million on this!
I saw a review of the game in Wired this morning. It is based on some really impressive physics model. Shows how real games are nowadays.
In any case, the reviewer said the best way to do it was to bean the driver and pick off the others at leisure.
Yes, the reviewer said it was quite tasteless.
I’d consider it to be in equal poor or good taste as Call of Duty or Battlefield Vietnam are. Personally, they’re just games and from what I’ve read about them, they’re supposed to be realistic simulations, being presented in good taste to give you an idea of how things really were.
Now, those countless “kill and torture bin Laden” flash games that popped up after 9/11 I would consider in poor taste.
I saw this on a news show last night. Aren’t the creators of the game offering a monetary award for the person who can replicate as close as possible the exact circumstances of the assassination? That, to me anyways, indicates that they aren’t just in it for kicks, but to prove something.
Poor taste: that game
Poorer taste: Every time someone shows the Zabruder film.
See, one is a game, and one is the image of someone’s parent/son/spouse getting their head blown apart.