JFK Reloaded PC
  • Publisher: Traffic
  • Release Date: November 2004
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Metascore
69 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critics What's this?

  • Summary: On the eve of the 41st anniversary of John F Kennedy's murder, a dramatic new 'docu-game' is set to bring his tragic assassination by Lee Harvey Oswald to life for a whole new generation. JFKReloaded.com recreates the last few moments of the President's life and challenges participants to help disprove any conspiracy theory by recreating the three shots that Lee Harvey Oswald made from the infamous sixth floor of the Dallas book depository. The 'docu-game' accurately recreates the surroundings and events of 22nd November 1963 in downtown Dallas, using information from the Warren Commission report, and has taken a ten-man team seven months to research and six months to program. Painstakingly detailed, the reconstruction enables players to examine the challenges that faced Oswald. Crucially, it shows how so many conspiracy theories have emerged surrounding the incident, given the difficulty of the task. [Traffic]… Expand

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 2 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 1 out of 4
  1. Cheat Code Central
    80
    If it's any consolation, this game doesn't make it "fun" to kill JFK. It takes the concept very seriously, letting you test various theories. Sure, it could have used virtual dummies or bots in place of realistic renderings of the actual people involved but the developers were striving for realism.
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  2. PC Gameworld
    79
    Despite absurd justification for making this thing, as a cold-blooded sniping exercise it delivers.
  3. PC Format
    64
    The game itself is too lightweight to stand much repeating, leaving two possible outcomes: you'll become a paranoid conspiracy theorist, or get bored, shoot the driver, and watch them all perish in the resulting crash. [Feb 2005, p.93]
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  4. Four Fat Chicks
    40
    The simulation, viewed on its own, is quite compelling. Offered in a different context, its analytical depth would reward hours of study. Unfortunately, Traffic has framed it with all of the taste and restraint of a tatty traveling shooting gallery.

User Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 3 out of 8
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 8
  3. Negative: 5 out of 8
  1. BruceC.
    9
    It isn't a game, it's a simulation - and a deadly accurate one at that. I presonally found it fascinating, and it raises a lot of questions about the assassination of JFK. If Lee Harvey Oswald was the "lone gunman", why wait until the limo is driving away? As the demo shows, it would have been much easier to kill JFK while the car was coming towards the Texas Schoolbook Depository. And Oswald would have had to have been both a good marksman and extremely lucky to make the shots he did - it's nearly impossible to duplicate his shots.… Expand
  2. codinfolu
    1
    This is a bad game. You assasinate a person who made sure the world was not destroed by nucular war! JFK help millons of blacks have equal rights. Whats next? Trying to assainate Martin Luther King? It may be a simulation, but it refelts a real event that happened a horrible event. You put yourself into a murders possision. The gamemakers must be crazy to make this game . These are the kind of games that rasie future terrioists.… Expand
  3. MattS.
    0
    Horrible! It is crap!
  4. IanB.
    0
    This is barely even a game. Completely surviving on the subject matter, because the gameplay is non-existent.

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