![]() Now if you were to point a pistol at a king or a queen you hands would shake as though palsied." The American tendency is to make symbols sacred. I'm reminded of English Bob's speech from Unforgiven, "Well, there's a dignity in royalty, a majesty which precludes the likelihood of assassination. Still, there seems to be a conviction that clicking on some pixels is okay, but clicking on others is not. You can open fire on the motorcade, but you can't steal any of the cars. You can shoot Kennedy in the head, but you can't cut it off with piano wire. However, if we look at the games widely available in stores, especially toy stores, JFK Reloaded seems rather tame. Visitors to Traffic's web site can download the game and pay $9.99 to unlock the full version. The Bottom LineJFK Reloaded is not available in stores. I should mention that a ballistic analysis is available as are replays from different perspectives, including Abraham Zapruder's. Likewise, since Oswald's perfect score seems unobtainable, it seems like creating a straight reenactment would have been more useful, leaving players to analyze the results. After all, an "interactive reconstruction" which precludes assassination attempts from the grassy knoll, sewage grates, or other speculated areas blindly follows the Warren Commission Report, rather than proving it. However, I do think that honest gamers will admit to being propelled by morbid curiosity. Now I don't think gamers are lining up en masse for the bounty on Kennedy's head. ![]() Second, players are competing to win up to $100,000 for the most successful reenactment. While Traffic goes out of their way to explain JFK Reloaded as being an intellectual exercise, intending to prove that only Lee Harvey Oswald could have shot Kennedy in exactly the manner detailed by the Warren Commission, two elements stand out: First, the player acts as the assassin and earns points for shooting the president. From what I've read, people think this is the worst thing to come out of Scotland since haggis. The BadIf you've heard about this game, it's probably via the mainstream media who are horrified that this game exists, yet aren’t above providing free advertisement. Everything looks right-although the crowds and motorcade can be thinned out to improve performance. It looks like they've done their homework, pouring over 1963-era maps of Dealey Plaza, the Warren Commission report, and various ballistic reports. It would take a history buff to tackle the reconstruction aspect. It's an "interactive reconstruction" of the Assassination. The player, playing a virtual Lee Harvey Oswald, focuses a representation of a sniper rifle on a computer-generated motorcade as it drives along a rendered Dealey Plaza and earns points for killing a Kennedy no more tangible than any other game character.Īdding another layer of paradox, Traffic, the Scottish design studio which released JFK Reloaded, doesn't actually call the game a "game". Of course, the player doesn't really kill Kennedy the player kills an image of Kennedy. Kennedy Assassination, where the player kills Kennedy. Enter JFK Reloaded, a game about the John F. The GoodSomewhere between 19, René Magritte painted a picture of a pipe above the words " Ceci n'est pas une pipe " "This is not a pipe." Of course it is a pipe, but then it really isn't a pipe, it's an image of a pipe. ![]() 18 out of 18 people found this review helpful write a review of this game
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