Kennedy, D-Mass., the late president's brother, described the game as "despicable" but declined further comment. surrounding the death of one of America's greatest heroes and is determined to promote the title respectfully while at the same time encouraging as many people as possible to take part in the challenge," the company said in its news release.Ī spokesman for Sen. "Traffic is aware of the passion in the U.S. It is available only by downloading from the Internet. Traffic representatives didn't respond to phone calls yesterday, but the company's release billed "JFK: Reloaded" as a "docu-game" with historical instruction as its main purpose. Traffic is offering a $100,000 prize to the first player to "most accurately re-create the three shots fired by Lee Harvey Oswald," according to a news release issued Monday. The game debuted Monday to coincide with the 41st anniversary of Kennedy's assassination. In "JFK: Reloaded," the player views Kennedy's fateful Dallas motorcade from the book depository tower in which Oswald sat and is charged with the mission of assassinating the president. The line between this and this 'JFK: Reloaded' game is, in my mind, close," said Lieberman, who has led earlier Senate decency campaigns involving movie, video and music ratings. "You can get arrested for threatening presidents and any behavior that suggests you are contemplating taking violent action against an elected official. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., referring to "JFK: Reloaded," a game by the Scottish video-game company Traffic in which players peer through a rifle scope and attempt to re-create Lee Harvey Oswald's assassination of the 35th president. "I hope somebody in a prosecutor's office will take a look at this," said Sen. Kennedy's 1963 assassination released this week sparked outrage yesterday from a leading entertainment decency watchdog. WASHINGTON - A video game simulation of President John F.
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