This is a screen capture from a new video game called "JFK Reloaded," where you re-enact the assassination of JFK. Salon has a "think piece" about how this reflects the deep wound the Kennedy assassination has left in our psyche, and how the game is a cathartic acting out of American's deep mistrust of their own government, and on and on and on. I doubt it suggests much, other than a misguided attempt to get in on the new craze of historical first-person shooters.
Honestly, it sounds like kind of a boring game. I mean, according to the article, you play out sort of a conspiracy simulation, imagining different scenarios of how a few characters might have come to kill the president. But, still, the game's got to be kind of light on the action, like "Grand Theft Auto" with only one auto. And no bats or chainsaws.
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