November 23, 2004
JFK game upsets many...
News clipping:
"As I watch the limo creep down Dealey Plaza, I put my finger on the trigger and peer down my rifle's telescope. I can see my target in the cross hairs. It's Nov. 22, 1963. I'm trying to kill the president.
The game I'm playing, JFK Reloaded, was released today by the Scottish company Traffic, on the 41st anniversary of the Kennedy assassination. Not surprisingly, it provoked a backlash before anyone ever played it. "It's despicable. There's really no further comment," said a spokesman for Ted Kennedy."
Sure it is distasteful but at least it is a portrayal of something that happened. Perhaps it is useful to put your mind in the psychology of a killer. Can we censor everything we don't like? My what a boring blog that would make...
Should I also be upset that Alexander the Great is portrayed as bisexual? (the greeks of course are suing). Or that Troy-the-movie was loosely based on thousands of lines of famous literature that Troy-the-movie screenwriters never read?
When it is real, we don't like it. When it isn't real we don't like it either. Do you prefer fiction with a pinch of truth or truth with a pinch of fiction?
Posted by mgotsis at November 23, 2004 07:17 PM | TrackBackComments
yeah, it's a popular thing - bending the "facts" to make better fiction. Maybe this relates to Eddo and Peter's notion of "documentary games".
But technically, shouldn't it be impossible to win this game? Do you figure out how the make the magic bullet turn around in mid-air? Has anyone played it? If I were a conspiracy theorist, I would think this game is government propaganda to put to rest the controversery surrounding JFK's assassination.
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at November 24, 2004 11:36 AM
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