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JFK Unplugged

An interesting review of the new Kennedy assassination game in Slate:

After playing JFK Reloaded for a couple of hours, I have to give Traffic credit for the game's unbelievably precise physics. Every bullet bounces around with a super-realistic trajectory, behaving in the incredibly complicated way that bullets do. Sometimes I'd hit the back of the limo and the bullet would careen forward, smashing the glass; other times it would embed itself in the metal. After each round, the game lets you view the scene in a dozen different ways, including the classic Zapruder film angle or even from the perspective of a camera mounted on the limo. Then you get a 3-D model of the limo that you can rotate however you want, with the bullet trajectories traced in freeze-frame. As a physics simulation, it's remarkable.

But as an experience? It's nauseating.

Like the writer, I don't have a problem with shoot-'em-ups (apart from being generally lousy at playing them) but I think I'll be passing on this one.

Via Waxy.org

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