Game Puts Players in Kerry's Swift Boat

[takumi]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=1963&e=12&u=/ap/20040924/ap_on_hi_te/kerry_videogame

DALLAS - An upcoming video game lets players re-enact the Swift boat mission in Vietnam that won Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) a Silver Star award for battlefield heroism.


The first-person shooter "Kuma War" uses a ripped-from-the-headlines approach where gamers can download and then relive actual battles, mainly from the current war in Iraq (news - web sites).


Beginning Sept. 30, the "John Kerry" mission will be available for download as an add-on pack for the game, made by New York-based Kuma Reality Games.


The Kerry mission is based on the Navy's records of the encounter on Feb. 28, 1969.


Playing as Lt. John Kerry, you lead three Swift boats into enemy fire on the banks of the Mekong Delta. Don't try to turn around and flee — the game is scripted, so you have no choice but to attack the enemy before they kill you.

[VegasWolf]

1. In the new Bush video game you see how many firecrackers

it takes to blow up the frog!

[BJ]

2. Wha!!? You mean the game's based on eye-witness accounts!

Wonder when this company's going to develop a "George W. Bush and the Fightin' TANG" game.

[ScrewyRabbit]

3. The Bush TANG game is really challenging

You get loaded, then snort lines of coke between a stripper's tits, then get in your car and try to stay on the road, evading highway patrols and sheriffs.

[Anaxamander]

4. I'll have to play that one. Great pub for JK! (NT)

[Voltaire99]

5. If shooting randomly at Vietnamese peasants flips your cookie...

...why, then, go for it! You might just be able to win that war for us, digitally!

Mass-murder simulators aren't exactly "great pub for JK." Celebrating the American slaughter in Vietnam by way of a video game is, I suppose, what a certain kind of person does to try to make history smell better. Thanks, but no thanks.