While walking to and from lunch today in College Center, I finally saw some people interacting with an art exhibit I'd seen the past couple days. It's a computer hooked up to a "helmet". The helmet is modeled to look like the face of David Koresh, and the computer is running a first-person-shooter style game.
It's unclear to me, since I came in to the presentation in the middle, whether this was an art project, a CompSci gaming-class project, or some bizarre merger of the two. Whatever it is, though, it seemed kind of fun.
You run around as David Koresh, in Waco, on that fateful day. Bibles fall out of the sky and grabbing them will give you, essentially, David Koresh Prophet Superpowers that you can use later in the game. The goal is to start by using the "Awaken" power (which you activate by saying "Awaken!" into the helmet's voice-mic) to convince FBI agents to follow you around for a little while. If you lead them into the compound, and up to the altar of Koresh's makeshift temple, they become converts, pick up guns, and defend the compound.
Do this a couple times, and you've got yourself a little bit of an army.
Then you can start Healing people, or using the (and I didn't catch the name of it) superpower that lets you basically rapidly shoot everyone around you as if you were spinning around with a machine gun really fast.
Later, when the PsyOps truck shows up to blare loud music at you, the helmet will start to vibrate annoyingly, like your head in real life might be, and the game chides you to go destroy the truck.
Scary part: Taking on the role of a whacked out nutjob who thought he was Jesus Christ looked like a lot of fun.
That might be the weirdest thing I've ever heard of.
I am not a relative of David Howell/Koresh but there are living relative who did not condone his behavior and this is offensive. can't the minds that create these types of games use them for something more useful or helpful in a society that needs it?