![]() Way back in 2005, JFK Reloaded also never fully felt like a game. Similarly, a lot of gamers hate these interactive stories for the same reason they just don’t fulfil the urges that led them to pick up a controller in the first place. All four, I think, are excellent – and they scratch an itch that standard genres of gaming often barely touch. But when is a game not a game? It seems to be a question we ask ourselves a lot more regularly nowadays, especially with the ever-growing popularity of “art/experience” games like Gone Home, Proteus, Three Fourths Home and Dear Esther. That said, JFK Reloaded was barely a game. Yet 13 years ago, a game was trying to prove that the much-known original findings from the Warren Commission were correct – and that even though I’m sure the latest info is still interesting, it’s not going to be revelatory. In a typical show of magnanimity, self-declared humblest man in the world and, coincidentally, impressively consistent liar and wanton narcissist, Donald Trump, somehow took credit for letting the data release happen, despite it being on the cards for 50 years. ![]() I started writing about JFK Reloaded a few months ago but put it on the backburner, long before hearing the news that the previously-classified and highly controversial John F Kennedy assassination files would finally be released to the public. ![]() The time was right to finally complete this retrospective.
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