The song in particular is a joyous, lilting sugary-sweet funeral dirge played over the menu. The crowd's abuzz, the birds are singing, your rifle gleams in the sunlight, a song is in your heart. You're Lee Harvey Oswald, sitting in a lonely room in the sixth story of the Texas School Book Depository in Dallas on the afternoon of November 22, 1963.
#Jfk reloaded controversy simulator#
This is the only genuine honest-to-God Murder Simulator I know of. True, the object of the game is to kill Senator Kennedy's brother, preferably with a nice juicy headshot. All the gushing praise from game rags can't come close to a real-life quote from Senator Ted Kennedy concerning JFK Reloaded: This sad little game, which I had the misfortune of acquiring long ago, is another textbook example of "no such thing as bad publicity". I will now facetiously dub this phenomenon "The Postal Effect". All one must do to ensure a hit is to release a barebones demo of a game with touchy subject matter, and the self-appointed moral watchdogs will do the rest. The tragedy here is that it works, wholesomeness be damned.
#Jfk reloaded controversy free#
Games haven't gotten any cleaner, and poverty-row developers haven't gotten tired of deliberately courting controversy to secure free widespread ad campaigns for their latest crapfests. Remember all the political hubbub and the general brouhaha surrounding video games in America's tender Post-Columbine period? This phrase in particular was thrown around more than the others to show soccer moms how depraved little Billy's games have gotten lately. Here's a buzzphrase we are all familiar with: "Murder Simulator". Games haven't gotten any cleaner, and poverty-row developers haven't gotten tired of deliberately courting controversy to secure free widespread ad campaigns for the."
Also most people that play those games aren't very violent at all and because they have played violent games are able to grow up and be more mature about violence (and hopefully realize its only place is in the virtual arena)."Here's a buzzphrase we are all familiar with: "Murder Simulator". This whole JFK game is being taken the wrong way and i fear it might spread to help needlessly censor games more then they are (why must my games get dumbed down or kiddied up because of the children that shouldn't even be playing them to begin with). yet parents still get them for their kids somehow. Now I will admit that these games aren't suitable for children however I will point out that it says clearly on the box of all these games 17+ mature. I would also like to point out theres a ban list of games (done by some family watch organization) and on the list are When in reality the game sells because its fun. It just gets bashed cause soccer moms and politicians all believe that games sell because they are violent and that all gamers are kids or imature teenagers. I do find it tasteless that its out the same time as when JFK was killed. If anything this game is just made by conspiracy nuts to prove that one lone gunman can't possibly make those shots (which has been proven wrong. It doesn't even portray the scene exactly (JFK's the only freeking car.wheres the police escort and such?).
However they fail to see why their children would never play this game, heck only someone interested in the JFK assassination or a history buff would even care. I mean politicians and soccer moms are pissed cause you shoot JFK. Have any of you gamers seen one ad in a magazine/internet/TV about this? or read one review in any magazine about this before? No the gaming community didn't even care nor knew this was coming out and now everyone's on the band wagon about it. its like free advertising for god's sake. A prime example of a game that no gamer would have ever cared about and would have sipmly passed under the radar till everyone made a big freaking deal about.
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