JFK: Reloaded
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| JFK: Reloaded | |
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| Developer(s) | Traffic Software |
| Designer(s) | Kirk Ewing (Marketing Director) |
| Platform(s) | Windows |
| Release date(s) | November 21, 2004 |
| Genre(s) | First-person shooter |
| Mode(s) | Single player |
| Media | Download |
| Input methods | Keyboard, mouse |
JFK: Reloaded is an edutainment first-person shooter video game, widely accepted as the world's first docu-game[citation needed], that recreates the John F. Kennedy assassination. The game was released November 21, 2004 (one day before the 41st anniversary of the event[1]) by Scotland-based Traffic Software (aka Traffic Games), JFK: Reloaded puts the player in the role of Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. The player is then scored on how closely one's version of the assassination matches the report of the Warren Commission. According to the company, the primary aim of the game was "to establish the most likely facts of what happened on November 22, 1963 by running the world’s first mass-participation forensic construction", the theory being that a player could help prove that Lee Harvey Oswald had the "means and the opportunity to commit the crime", and thus help support or disprove the Warren Commission's findings.
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[edit] Gameplay
The player assumes the view of Lee Harvey Oswald on the sixth floor of the Texas Book Depository. The player can click to show a rifle scope. As the motorcade drives through Dealey Plaza, the player can do however he or she pleases, whether to shoot the president or the people around him. The simulator is realistic; bullets lose energy and drop to the ground.
After the motorcade exits, the game shows the player a detailed screen of each rifle shot the player took, showing what the bullet hit, the entry and exit points, the path of the bullet, and other things.
[edit] Competition
The game makers hosted a competition. The goal was to attempt to replicate the assassination as closely as possible. On February 22, 2005, Stephane Krupa, a user living in France, named "Major_Koenig" (named after Erwin König, a famous sniper) won the competition prize of $10,712 with a score of 782 out of 1000. Second and third place went to the users "Flux" (779) and "ArrogantB" (777) respectively.
After the competition had officially closed, the cost of the simulation was reduced to $4.99, and the "competition run" option was disabled within the game.
Sometime in early August 2005, the official website closed, but not before offering version 1.1 free to the public.
[edit] Reception
A spokesperson for Senator Edward Kennedy, the late President Kennedy's brother, called the game "despicable."[2]
