Waco, Tekken Re-Interpreted For Exhibit

Thanks to an anonymous reader for pointing to the forthcoming New York unveiling of a game revisiting the 1993 Waco, Texas incident involving the siege of the Branch Davidian cult. The official site for this controversial art exhibit/game, called 'Waco Resurrection', explains: "...gamers enter the mind and form of a resurrected David Koresh... [and] are bombarded with a soundstream of government 'psy-ops', FBI negotiators, [and] the voice of God" as they "voice messianic texts drawn from the book of revelation, wield a variety of weapons from the Mount Carmel cache and influence the behavior of both followers and opponents by radiating a charismatic aura." The creators, C-Level, are also showing their Tekken Torture Tournament exhibit at the same venue, a PlayStation setup that "converts virtual on-screen [Tekken 3] damage into bracing, non-lethal, electric shocks."

The Unbelievable Propaganda Machine.

Never sleeps.

Video games are now the agitprop primordial soup of a society that may too soon find itself to be populated entirely with drones.

Oh, wait, its Art. Never mind what I just said.

does it include

bradley tanks shooting flames into the buildings...

CJC (and Bill Hicks R.I.P.)

As a Texan, and a former student who did my senior

research project on the Davidian raid, I don't know I would want to be on the defense side. Not that I think the government was right by killing just about everyone inside, they weren't, but because I don't even want to symbolicaly defend a pedophile.

a game that gives you pain?

Oh you mean like the painstation [painstation.de] or the Xshock controller [techtv.com]? Nice to see that even artists aren't above using someone else's idea.

Good Taste

There is art and then there is art in good taste. For some reason, the Virgin Mary's breast depicted in feces and this immersive experience into the world of a megalomaniac just do not seem to be in good taste to me. Nintendo's draconian processes to protect what people do with and produce for their system does not seem all that bad to me after reading this.

Its just someone else cashing in on the death and destruction that pervades our world. What is next, a race from the top of the World Trade Center Towers?

Rules of Engagement

This is definately an interesting piece of art. Anyone who is interested in the Waco thing needs to see the film "Rules of Engagement", regardless of your views on the 'incident'. A lot of interesting links related to Waco can be found here [blogspot.com].

On a similar note...

...has anyone put together a Columbine High School map for Quake?

not necessary

This experience does not need to be revisited. I lived in Waco during the events and resurrecting David Koresh and making a martyr out of him is in very poor taste. What happened in Waco was that a local news reporter tipped off the Davidians about an ATF raid, and even though the ATF had lost the element of surprise they stupidly went forward. At the end of the siege I think the Davidians started the fire themselves. I still feel sorry for those brainwashed that stayed. I really feel sorry for the children who died in the fire.

Re:David Koresh is a Hero !

Now, let the wackos come forth with their wild conspiracy theories about how the government killed the Davidians (not Koresh), ignoring the fact that Koresh torched the place,

What do you mean "fact"? That "fact" has been in dispute from the beginning. Sure, they probably did it, but probably doesn't add up to a fact.

The fact that the FBI kept all reporters two or more miles away from the action and cut off negotioations are the reasons why Waco will remain a point of controvery for the rest of our lives.

LK