Fury over JFK assassin game
"AP - Cyberassassins can put themselves in Lee Harvey Oswald's shoes and attempt to kill John F.Kennedy in a global internet competition, with $128,000 going to the winner.The player who most closely matches the scenario of Oswald firing three bullets from the Texas School Book Depository will win the money in a game that has left the former president's family outraged.
Glasgow-based company Traffic released the game, entitled JFK Reloaded, yesterday to coincide with the 41st anniversary of the 35th US president's assassination on November 22, 1963.
A spokesman for US senator Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother, branded the game "despicable". "
Of course the game has a few obvious flaws. Nobody believes Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. In order to really come close to the real scenario, you'd have to play a CIA-agent... Also there is no level two: what about all the other Kennedy's that got killed? And Martin L. King?
Other countries have expressed their interest in the game, though: England is thinking of a John Lennon shoot-out, a Princess Diana rally-game and a George Best vs. Gazza drinking-contest.
Belgium is thinking about an André Cools shooting game (with Agusta-helicopters) and Holland wants a new version of the SIMS, workingtitle: The PIMS.
"AP - Cyberassassins can put themselves in Lee Harvey Oswald's shoes and attempt to kill John F.Kennedy in a global internet competition, with $128,000 going to the winner.The player who most closely matches the scenario of Oswald firing three bullets from the Texas School Book Depository will win the money in a game that has left the former president's family outraged.
Glasgow-based company Traffic released the game, entitled JFK Reloaded, yesterday to coincide with the 41st anniversary of the 35th US president's assassination on November 22, 1963.
A spokesman for US senator Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother, branded the game "despicable". "
Of course the game has a few obvious flaws. Nobody believes Lee Harvey Oswald killed JFK. In order to really come close to the real scenario, you'd have to play a CIA-agent... Also there is no level two: what about all the other Kennedy's that got killed? And Martin L. King?
Other countries have expressed their interest in the game, though: England is thinking of a John Lennon shoot-out, a Princess Diana rally-game and a George Best vs. Gazza drinking-contest.
Belgium is thinking about an André Cools shooting game (with Agusta-helicopters) and Holland wants a new version of the SIMS, workingtitle: The PIMS.
