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OMG. I wish this thing could be assigned to the Terrible channel 5 times.

Used to have this game... the best is when you rewrite history... I would shoot the driver... and he would go out of control and everyone in the back would fly out.

I had this game installed for awhile, it was so boring, I ended up seeing if I could take out the entire parade instead.

Comment on the tags: when is it not too soon? Aren't we, according to that logic, pissing on the sacrifices made by our soldiers when we play video games based on WW2?

Pretty tasteless, but other than that it's not a big deal.

>> ^raddishs: Comment on the tags: when is it not too soon? Aren't we, according to that logic, pissing on the sacrifices made by our soldiers when we play video games based on WW2?


precisely.

i remember that when this game came out there was an uproar along the lines of "Look what those Limey Bastards are doing to disgrace the memory of our fallen leader!"... i disagreed then, as i do now, to knee-jerking, and as far as this game is concerned i respect the developer's idea. to Traffic Games it's an immersion into a historical event, and i'm sure they understood the repercussions involved in releasing it.

i think this game touches a raw nerve with some older folks, as well as various mouth-foamers, because it reminds them of the event itself and the subsequent Warren Commission that appears to have only opened more questions than given answers. for people of the gaming age (and persuasion) it's a unique chance to apply What We Know about the ordeal in a controllable environment. it's the only time in american history that this has happened to a president *and* was captured on several films, as opposed to Lincoln's assassination, so it feels like those grainy 8mm frames should be telling us everything, and as time goes by and more detail about the incident becomes known we go back and try to put those pieces together. i personally believe we will never know the whole story.

growing up in Texas i was never able to get any information about it from anyone i knew other than "it was awful" or "we went home that day." the people who were witness to it are dying off and unwilling to talk about it, that i can understand, but not talking about it won't make the curiosity go away and this game is a good way to try to get a grip on the event as much as we can. although i'm pretty sure there will also be people playing the game to live out their own fantasies, i don't believe that the majority of people drawn to it are the unpatriotic psycho president-snipers that the Media made them out to be back then.

that being said, it's nerve-wracking to hear people around me talk about how Obama makes them feel like they did when JFK was running. it's always a good idea to keep the past in perspective, but in this election period...with Obama as a candidate (and soon very possibly president)... it's especially important to keep this incident in mind by whatever means necessary.

sometimes the herd knows things unconsciously, just sayin'.

Traffic Games excuse that this is just a way to allow people worldwide to do their own forensic investigation is bullshit. If that was really their intent, they wouldn't be calling this a game. I'm sure they "understood the repercussions" involved as well. In fact, I'd say they were banking on them. Nothing sells a product like controversy. If they wanted to be taken seriously about investigating the assassination and/or making sure people remember, they should have tried for some dignity in their advertising.

November 22, 2008 will be the 45th anniversary of the assassination, the 4th anniversary of this "game", and the 30th anniversary of xxovercastxx.

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Traffic Games excuse that this is just a way to allow people worldwide to do their own forensic investigation is bullshit. If that was really their intent, they wouldn't be calling this a game.

i would agree with you, except that Traffic didn't market it as a game. in fact, as i recall there are no cheat codes, no ability to switch weapons, the "game play" was entirely too slow and boring for your average FPSer (or any other human for that matter...); your performance is graded on how accurate to the actual event it was. Traffic stated that their main objective over all things was to prove that game engines (more specifically, theirs) were capable of being used for forensic demonstrations. they chose JFK because they wanted to prove that the Warren Commission's finding about Oswald was correct and that the Magic Bullet was indeed possible. Ewing went so far as to tell the Kennedy family about JFK:R before release and (not surprisingly) didn't get a response from them until after public outrage.

while i think that given the subject matter they were as tactful as they cold have been (for instance, no box-release), they chose some piss-poor ideas to surround it like a token-based competition that only made the already low popular opinion of the game even lower.. as such it was Abandonware before it had turned a year old. Traffic holds that the game is abandoned out of respect for the Kennedys and that they made their point about game engines being used for other things than pure gaming (although i'm sure a great deal of that is more wound-licking than anything else). you gotta hand it to them, though it's a great way to get your 15 minutes.

and: glad to see another november person, mine's the 24th.

my "too soon" tag was meant as dry humor. it would have had a question mark, but VS doesn't allow ?'s in the tags.

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