posted November 22, 2004 04:54 PM
I'm sorry, I sneezed when I wrote the title and mistracked what I was writing, which resulted me to miss a word!What I meant was, "If this doesn't prove that their was a "lone gunman", nothing will!
Now Kill JFK, and get it right
REUTERS[ MONDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2004 04:41:26 PM ]
LOS ANGELES: A new video game to be released on Monday allows players to simulate the assassination of US President John F Kennedy.
The release of "JFK Reloaded" is timed to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's murder in Dallas and was designed to demonstrate a lone gunman was able to kill the president.
"It is despicable," said David Smith, a spokesman for Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy, the late president's brother. He was informed of the game on Friday but declined further comment.
Kirk Ewing, managing director of the Scottish firm Traffic Games, which developed the game, said he understood some people would be horrified at the concept, but he insisted he and his team had nothing but respect for Kennedy and for history.
"We believe that the only thing we're exploiting is new technology," said Ewing, a former documentary filmmaker and senior executive with Scottish developer VIS, responsible for games like "State of Emergency." He said he sent Edward Kennedy a letter before the game's release.
Ewing said the game was designed to undermine the theory there was some shadowy plot behind the assassination. "We believe passionately there was no conspiracy," he said.
Traffic Games said the objective was for a player to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade from assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's digitally recreated sixth-floor perch in the Texas School Book Depository.
Points are awarded or subtracted based on how accurately the shots match the official version of events as documented in by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination.
Shooting the image of Kennedy in the right spots in the right sequence adds to the score, while "errors" like shooting first lady Jacqueline Kennedy lead to deductions.
Each shot can be replayed in slow motion, and the bullets can be tracked as they travel and pass through Kennedy's digitally recreated body. Players can choose to see blood by pressing a "blood effects" option.
Players can view the motorcade from a number of angles, including the perspective of filmmaker Abraham Zapruder and a view from the "grassy knoll" where some conspiracy theorists believe a second gunman was stationed.
The game will be available via download for $9.99.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/930980.cms
I wonder if the makers of the game show and reason over why the day after the assassination of Kennedy the limousine(he was in) was practacally rebuilt and swept clean before the investigators can do a thorough search through it, including the replacement of the windshield!
Or maybe why that most of the people that were close suspect to the event, were either bought or killed off before they could testify before a "real" jury, other then the Warren commission, which was a complete farce!
Just like 9/11, it wasn't the actual event that made people question what happened on that day, it's all the "other" little events that were surounding it that makes people wonder why!