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Originally Posted by todd
I realize how real this game might be, and how great the phsyics might be (I havent played it yet - only the demo). Personally, I'm not offended by the JFK thing. But do I think its a good idea? No. This just opens the doors to more terrorist related games. All we need now is a "Afghan Terrorist Flight Simulator" or something. That would definitly not be a good thing.
I look foward to experiencing the true-to-life physics of the shots, but I definitly think they could have come up with a little more...tasteful way of showing it off. Maybe something like if there was an option to play as a SWAT officer, and your mission is to take out Oswald before he gets his shots off?
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With all due respect, you are completly missing the point.
It's not a game, the goal of JFK-Reloaded is not to "kill the president," the goal is not to entertain you the way GTA or Halflife 2 does. The goal is to prove that Oswald could not have fired the 3 shots in the time alleged on that day in Dallas.
I don't mean to be harsh, but if you havn't downloaded JFK-R and run thru the simulation you have no idea what you are talking about. Sure, it looks like a game, it sounds like a game, it even "plays" like a game...but for the 15th time, IT IS NOT A GAME.
The goal of re-enactment is discovery. For years police have re-enacted crimes to work out time-lines and shot placement. You've all seen CSI right? How many times have you seen the Civil War re-enactments where nerds in blue costumes pretend to kill other nerds in gray costumes?
This is the just the same sort of reconstruction with new technologhy. Now of course because it's in the shape of a video game the mass unwashed unfamiliar with the medium wind up getting their panties in a bunch. It's the typicall rallying cry. "Someone please think of the children" or "This is an insult to the memory of JFK."
Oh bite it. First off, JFK-Reloaded is never intended to be placed into the hands of a child. Secondly, we've been seeing computer animated bullets go into a computer animated JFK since the mid-90's, so this is no different.
I don't mean to go off on a rant here, and Todd I certainly don't mean to attack you, but when I see a case of media hysteria over technology or whatever, I get a little defensive.
Run the simulation, then decide.