>> ^raddishs: Comment on the tags: when is it not too soon? Aren't we, according to that logic, pissing on the sacrifices made by our soldiers when we play video games based on WW2?


precisely.

i remember that when this game came out there was an uproar along the lines of "Look what those Limey Bastards are doing to disgrace the memory of our fallen leader!"... i disagreed then, as i do now, to knee-jerking, and as far as this game is concerned i respect the developer's idea. to Traffic Games it's an immersion into a historical event, and i'm sure they understood the repercussions involved in releasing it.

i think this game touches a raw nerve with some older folks, as well as various mouth-foamers, because it reminds them of the event itself and the subsequent Warren Commission that appears to have only opened more questions than given answers. for people of the gaming age (and persuasion) it's a unique chance to apply What We Know about the ordeal in a controllable environment. it's the only time in american history that this has happened to a president *and* was captured on several films, as opposed to Lincoln's assassination, so it feels like those grainy 8mm frames should be telling us everything, and as time goes by and more detail about the incident becomes known we go back and try to put those pieces together. i personally believe we will never know the whole story.

growing up in Texas i was never able to get any information about it from anyone i knew other than "it was awful" or "we went home that day." the people who were witness to it are dying off and unwilling to talk about it, that i can understand, but not talking about it won't make the curiosity go away and this game is a good way to try to get a grip on the event as much as we can. although i'm pretty sure there will also be people playing the game to live out their own fantasies, i don't believe that the majority of people drawn to it are the unpatriotic psycho president-snipers that the Media made them out to be back then.

that being said, it's nerve-wracking to hear people around me talk about how Obama makes them feel like they did when JFK was running. it's always a good idea to keep the past in perspective, but in this election period...with Obama as a candidate (and soon very possibly president)... it's especially important to keep this incident in mind by whatever means necessary.

sometimes the herd knows things unconsciously, just sayin'.

I guess some people are too afraid to believe their eyes when authority tells them otherwise.

There was a cover up of what happened on 9/11 from the very top.

For the buildings to collapse that fast, the lower floors would have to have the resistive factor of thin air.

Bush blocked the 9/11 investigation at every turn, and evidence was destroyed almost immediately.

Most of the "experts" who "debunk" conspiracy theories are basically professionals who are too afraid of losing their jobs or being attacked if they openly raise questions. They pull numbers out of their butts to justify the "official" explanation which was handed to them by the Bush administration.

The NYFD was placed under gag order.

If it's so obvious what happened, why was there such a great effort to hide everything?

They didn't have to destroy that steel so quickly.

(and there really were WMDs in Iraq, and Bush didn't steal Florida in 2000, and he didn't steal Ohio in 2004, and water-boarding isn't torture, and Dick Cheney is an honest man)