- I just ran across this game called 'JFK Reloaded'. Its basically an educational type game where you recreate the death of JFK with the 3+ different theories of how he was assassinated. It's gonna be $9.99 to download online and is being released on the 41st anniversary of the assassination. How sweet of these morbid people to be so thoughtful!
- JFK Reloaded v1.1 (Free Game) As I watch the limo creep down Dealey Plaza, I put my finger on the trigger and peer down my rifle's telescope. I can see my target in the cross hairs.
JFK: Reloaded is a 'historical simulation' quasi-video game, designed to recreate the John F. Kennedy assassination. It is noted for its controversial subject matter, and was released November 22.
A PC game produced by Scottish firm Traffic Games has come under fire from the family of former US president John F Kennedy for allowing gamers to play through his assassination as sniper Lee Harvey Oswald.
The game, which is rather insensitively titled JFK Reloaded, was released today to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's assassination in Dallas, and has been made available over the Internet for $9.99.
It features a 3D recreation of the scene at the assassination and challenges players to fire three shots at the president's motorcade from the Texas School Book Depository, with points awarded for matching Oswald's fatal shots exactly, and deducted for 'mistakes'.
The player can also view the scene from a number of angles, including the infamous 'grassy knoll' where a second gunman was situated according to certain theories about the killing.
According to Traffic Games managing director Kirk Ewing, the team has 'enormous respect for the Kennedy family', and the game is designed to 're-ignite people's passion for history.'
'This is a unique insight into the assassination,' he told the BBC News site. 'We think there's a whole generation of people who have no experience of the Kennedy assassination. The game is effectively a reconstruction of the event using video game technology. I hasten to add that we don't regard it as a video game because there's no imagination been used to create the scene.'
However, the Kennedy family doesn't appear to be impressed with this explanation - with a spokesperson for JFK's brother, Senator Ted Kennedy, describing the game as 'despicable.'
JFK-22-nov-1963 from lpdenmark on Sketchfab. Click the first link to see this in wide screen view (recommended)
Untold reams of paper, barrels of ink and reels of film have been used to analyze and pick apart every detail of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza 50 years ago. But now there’s an entirely new way to examine the tragic event, made by Danish graphic designer Leif Sørensen: an interactive 3D diorama that shows the surrounding buildings and area, the path of each of Lee Harvey Oswald’s gunshots and the position of Kennedy’s car at these fateful moments.
Sørensen originally built the model for the Danish newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende to use in printed graphics, then uploaded it to the Sketchfab site, a platform for sharing interactive visualizations. “I thought it would be interesting to give people a feeling of what the place was really like,” he says. “A lot of people have seen maps, but this gives a little more feeling of the surroundings.”
Non-Destructive effectsSymmetry modeBlock Shadow toolCorner Control in Dashed Lines and OutlinesPointillizerImpact toolAlign and distribute nodesStraighten photos interactivelyCustomize curve preview and editingNEW IN 2017LiveSketch™ toolNEW IN 2017Powerful stylus enhancementsCustom node shapesNEW IN 2017Prominent interactive slidersNEW IN 2017Edit Fill dialog boxFountain fillsSupport for Real-Time Stylus (RTS)Hide and display objectsEnhanced vector previews, nodes, and handlesFill PickerFill creationSmoothing vector objectsUser InterfaceNEW! BenVISTA PhotoZoom Pro 4. Coreldraw graphics suite x8 download. – RAW photo editor. 17 & X8X7Drawing ToolsNEW! – Plug-in for enlarging digital images.
He created the model using historic photos and maps, and used three straight lines to depict the three gunshots fired by Oswald from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The green line represents a missed shot fired by Oswald—likely the first shot he fired, shortly after Kennedy’s limousine turned onto Elm Street, according to the Warren Commission, the body of Congressmen and other officials that investigated the assassination. The shorter red line shows the second shot, which hit the president in the upper back, passed through his body and hit Texas governor John Connally, who was sitting directly in front of him. The longer red line shows the third shot, which hit Kennedy in the head after his car had traveled a bit further down the street.
Image via Wikimedia Commons
The model also shows a number of other key observers, including Abraham Zapruder, who inadvertently shot the most complete footage of the assassination (he’s shown in gray, standing on top of the curved concrete pergola structure) and Bill and Gayle Newman, who dropped to the grass near Zapruder to cover their children (shown in yellow, near the grassy knoll).
“Of course, we could have added many more people to the scene, and even more shots, but this is the official version, according to the Warren Commission’s report,” Sørensen says. “So we wanted to depict this as accurately as possible.”
Sørensen’s isn’t the only 3D model of the event—ESRI, the mapping software company, has also produced their own digital visualization, used in the video below:
JFK-22-nov-1963 from lpdenmark on Sketchfab. Click the first link to see this in wide screen view (recommended)
Untold reams of paper, barrels of ink and reels of film have been used to analyze and pick apart every detail of the assassination of John F. Kennedy in Dallas’ Dealey Plaza 50 years ago. But now there’s an entirely new way to examine the tragic event, made by Danish graphic designer Leif Sørensen: an interactive 3D diorama that shows the surrounding buildings and area, the path of each of Lee Harvey Oswald’s gunshots and the position of Kennedy’s car at these fateful moments.
Sørensen originally built the model for the Danish newspaper Fyens Stiftstidende to use in printed graphics, then uploaded it to the Sketchfab site, a platform for sharing interactive visualizations. “I thought it would be interesting to give people a feeling of what the place was really like,” he says. “A lot of people have seen maps, but this gives a little more feeling of the surroundings.”
He created the model using historic photos and maps, and used three straight lines to depict the three gunshots fired by Oswald from the sixth floor of the Texas School Book Depository. The green line represents a missed shot fired by Oswald—likely the first shot he fired, shortly after Kennedy’s limousine turned onto Elm Street, according to the Warren Commission, the body of Congressmen and other officials that investigated the assassination. The shorter red line shows the second shot, which hit the president in the upper back, passed through his body and hit Texas governor John Connally, who was sitting directly in front of him. The longer red line shows the third shot, which hit Kennedy in the head after his car had traveled a bit further down the street.
The model also shows a number of other key observers, including Abraham Zapruder, who inadvertently shot the most complete footage of the assassination (he’s shown in gray, standing on top of the curved concrete pergola structure) and Bill and Gayle Newman, who dropped to the grass near Zapruder to cover their children (shown in yellow, near the grassy knoll).
“Of course, we could have added many more people to the scene, and even more shots, but this is the official version, according to the Warren Commission’s report,” Sørensen says. “So we wanted to depict this as accurately as possible.”
Download Jfk Reloaded
Sørensen’s isn’t the only 3D model of the event—ESRI, the mapping software company, has also produced their own digital visualization, used in the video below: