Shoot Jack Kennedy video game
p2pnet.net News View:- Why all the fuss over JFK Reloaded, the $9.99 Shoot Jack Kennedy video game? Hollywood has educated many people – kids included – to get their kicks through vicarious violence.
That’s why Take-Two, owner of Rockstar games is so popular, and compared to Rockstar’s Manhunt and San Andreas, JFK II is tame and lame.
The late president’s family finds it ‘despicable’. But few people are similarly outraged by the many and varied video games based solely on hard-core death and extreme brutality.
Manhunt was banned in New Zealand and Rockstar’s, Grand Theft Auto III, is blamed for inspiring two brutal murders in California where a "gang evidently craved media attention and shared a fascination with the video game ‘Grand Theft Auto III’."
Haitian civil rights groups filed a lawsuit against Grand Theft Auto: Vice City because they say it instructs players to "kill the Haitians" and awards points for each kill.
Its latest GTA title, San Andreas, players build a crime empire by robbing banks, stealing cars, running drugs and killing the competition.
Sony, one of the major record labels that’s currently victimizing file sharers for swapping digital music online, sells its PlayStation2 game consoles on the back of Rockstar games.
Rockstar’s owner, Take-Two, pretends it dilgently targets its filth at adults, but it gave the exclusive UK magazine cover rights for San Andreas to GamesMaster magazine, whch is aimed specifically at mid-teens.
ELSPA (the Entertainment & Leisure Software Publishers Association) is the UK’s computer and video games industry trade group.
And yet, "There should be a cautious attitude targeting non-adults with adult content,” said ELSPA director general Roger Bennett. “It is up to the publishers what they do, but we would hope they would be careful and target the right audience – we don’t want to shoot ourselves in the foot again. What we don’t want is a situation where the indefensible becomes indefensible."
When GTA came out, article after article – many in mainstream media – extolled its graphics and praised its ‘reality’. Few, if any, saw it as something likely to desensitize people, especially kids, to violence and brutality.
JFK Reloaded is bad, that’s for sure, and the fact it uses Kennedy as the focus is deplorable.
But it’s no worse than any of the other games out there.
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See:-
JFK Reloaded – Outrage at ‘Kill JFK’ video game, p2pnet, November 22, 2004
crime empire - GTA: San Andreas, p2pnet, October 17, 2004
November 23rd, 2004 at 2:27 pm
How about a shoot Jack Valenti? I’d play that over and over and over again!
November 23rd, 2004 at 3:32 pm
this is someones husband. yous who aggree with this game are rude rotton people
November 23rd, 2004 at 4:10 pm
Whats this World comming down to?
SOMEBODY MUST PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN!!!
YOU CAN ONLY GO TO FAR…
November 23rd, 2004 at 5:31 pm
What’s the world coming to? You’ve got to be kidding. Civilized nations are invading and occupying poor nations and yet people are outraged about a video game?
Drake
November 23rd, 2004 at 5:32 pm
Just one word “SICK”
November 23rd, 2004 at 5:47 pm
Complaining about this stuff is a waste of time. It’s now part of the American culture and it’s spread around the world.
There ain’t a thing you can do about it.
Morg
November 23rd, 2004 at 6:16 pm
Honestly, of all the things to get outraged over, this is on the bottom of the list. Yes he was someone’s husband. He was also a public figure who was the focus of speculation regarding the perpetrator of his assasination. This game sets out to show that it could have been done by Lee Harvey Oswald. Ok, he gets shot again on the screen, it’s not going to kill him more, neither will protesting the game bring him back.
It astounds me that people can get their knickers in a twist over something like a violent video game and not care about real injustices and violence. How about making gays second class citizens or sending young soldiers off to die in a poorly planned war? If the game is too disrespectful or too violent, don’t buy or play it, and do the same for your kith and kin. But IMHO your personal standards mean didly squat to me and I don’t want them pushed on me. So save us all a headache and just protest quietly in your livingroom.
-Nev
November 23rd, 2004 at 6:17 pm
Wait for the sequel: Shoot Abraham Lincoln.
November 23rd, 2004 at 6:20 pm
I bet one with Dubya would be a big hit…
November 23rd, 2004 at 7:00 pm
Shows the low level to which American culture has sunk. Pathetic.
November 23rd, 2004 at 10:26 pm
why the hell are people outraged at this, i mean how is it going to change society in anyway, what will it make you go out and assasinate J.F.K. oh wait someone beat you to it so maybe it will make you kill the current president i mean common its pretty obvious you would have to be not right in the head to start with to be influinced by something like a video game its pretty obvious its not real and i dont feel like going out and opening fire at the public blowing up cars and that and im only 15, all this rubbish is just complete nonsense so get on with your life and ignore anything you dont want to know about because it wont effect your life in anyway.
November 23rd, 2004 at 10:32 pm
culture doesnt have a thing to do with it – this is M-O-N-E-Y
November 26th, 2004 at 7:29 am
Why don’t they make a Bush game like JFK Reloaded?
November 29th, 2004 at 5:59 pm
You have no idea what your talking about. Eat your comupter.
- T
January 22nd, 2005 at 1:43 am
Why not to shoot kennedy if we can shoot Hitler or Saddam? Rgds. Freedom of speech.
September 24th, 2005 at 5:53 am
If a game was based on killing the flaming fags you dumb ass liberals would be marching in the street crying about how inhumane and insensative a game can be. Here we have a president that should be regarded with respect to his legacy and to his family. So, Nev get your head out of your ass and take a deep breath, the lack of oxygen to your brain can be a serious health risk. Oh and about your comment, “sending soldiers off to die in a poorly planned war”, well our country has fought many wars, wars that sacrificed many lives to secure our many freedoms and those of oppressed countries around the world
June 9th, 2007 at 9:07 am
I had a lot of fun with this game