(OT) How effed up is this?!

[Zogg]

http://spong.com/index.asp?art=5282&date=20030724

A game set in NY on 9/11.

 

[Mystery Man]

Pretty effed up.

 

[Ashrem Bayle]

Classy.

 

[Ankh-Morpork Guard]

I sometimes think people are too oversensitive when it comes to 9/11...but really, that's just pathetic....

 

[KnowTheToe]

Classy.

Wow. Beside being tastless, it sounds boring.

 

[Skarp Hedin]

While the premise of "normal person tries to escape from disaster using everyday items" is pretty interesting, and probably worth a mod (though probably a full game based on escaping from a disaster would get boring)... it seems to me that perhaps they could have picked a less emotionally charged setting, so to speak.

I'd say using the events of Sept. 11th as the setting was chosen for pure publicity, which it'll certainly get.

 

[frankthedm]

sweet

I think it a GREAT idea.

 

[MeepoTheMighty]

It's not any more tasteless than the THOUSANDS of other 9/11 products out there.

Would reading a book about a 9/11 survivor's escape be tasteless? Would watching a movie about it be tasteless?

There are plenty of other things out there that capitalize on tragedy. Should we stop playing Axis & Allies because it trivializes the millions of people who died in WWII?

 

[Azure Trance]

From a game POV I think it's interesting - though I don't own UT2003, so I doubt I'll actually play it. As long as the mod isn't tasteless (say, like, finding a picture of Annie Frank in an attic on a map of Medal of Honor) then it's not a problem.

 

[tennyson]

That's EXTREMELY tasteless, but then again, I've seen enough bogus material on Spong.com to not believe this.