It's about time someone's come up with a video game that lets the presidential hopefuls face off in a forum befitting their partisan manner: Paintball. Presidential Paintball pits your candidate of choice against the other presidential hopefuls in a rolling paintball match that takes place in and around the White House. While the game is fairly easy to beat, I never get tired of watching a huge-headed Clinton or Romney roll across the floor. Oddly enough, when I got to McCain, he kept standing up and shooting at the floor by his feet. Statement or coding mistake?
Hot Flashes: Presidential Paintball Has You Shooting the Candidates
1:00 PM on Tue Jan 22 2008
By Brian Crecente
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Anyone remember that old Mac game, like, back in the late 1990s where you were a Bill Clinton head and you had to eat the hamburgers and avoid things like Monica Lewinski? I think it was called Slick Willy.
Better then Gears of War?
I thought so. ; )
Interesting, but no challenge. I'm wondering what kind of commentary is here or if it's simply pseudo-political muckery.
Sorry, why is Rudy Giuliani still being mentioned and displayed as a Presidential candidate? Chris Dodd has a better shot at the Presidency.
Maybe they should make a title with you avoiding the current VP trying to shoot you while he's drunk.
@sxp151: I think he's hoping to win in Florida, which would put him right in the thick of things, and he supposedly has a decent shot at doing so. Not that I particularly care if he succeeds or not, but that's the theory.
I hope all of you guys vote for Mcain, and if democrat vote for Edwards.
@Irenicus-the one and only: Excuse me, but you're on the INTERNET.
Ron Paul & Stephen Colbert are the Republican Ticket, while Barack Obama & Chuck Norris round up the Democrats.
Solid Snake for president!
@Throtex: He's been behind in virtually every recent Florida poll. He hasn't a chance there or anywhere else.
I'm hoping to win the Nobel Peace Prize. I probably have about the same shot as Giuliani does of winning Florida.
@Irenicus-the one and only: No. I think I've had enough war these past 7 years.
@Moonshadow101: Bullshit, Chuck is green party all the way :D
@sxp151: So who will stop this war? Obama, Clinton? lol yeah...
They will all continue it, trust me, question is who will do it the best.
I think this should be incorporated in the real world. Would make the political process way more entertaining and get more people to pay attention. But Huckabee would have a massive advantage with Chuck on his team... no contest.
Man, that headline is a real tease...
@Moonshadow101: LOL Chuck Norris is most definitely not a democrat, he is if anything a republican/conservative!
@Irenicus-the one and only: McCain?!?!? give me a break....I wouldn't vote for him if you paid me....The man is NOT the kind of candidate the republican party needs or wants. He has flipped flopped on too many issues and has too many liberal tendencies.
I am not terribly pleased with most of the republican party candidates....However I would take any of them over Hillary...who is evil incarnate....*shivers* or any Democrat socialist...."I am looking at you Obama."
What we need to do is hire an evil genius to resurrect Ronald Reagan....How cool would that be? to have a Zombie president.....
@Moonshadow101: I thought Norris supported Huckabee?
As a Texan, i'd always wanted it to be national law that if the vote is withen say, 3%, the two candidates (or more) are put into a steel cage match, last man standing is president.
Cause who wouldn't want to have seen Bush and Kerry duke it out after the last election?
McCain's problem is he is handicapped for the presidential race. And by handicapped I am referring to his honesty.
@d1sco_d3ath: It would be cool to have a zombie president, just not Reagan.
@Irenicus-the one and only: What is McCain's stance on games anyway? I'm not going to vote for him, but I need to complete the Do Not Vote For list for gamers:
Hilary Clinton
Mitt Romney
Anyone connected to Tipper Gore
etc.
@mrantimatter: I think Kerry's size would help, but I think Bush would rush him like a Berserker. But then again Kerry would probably be more agile and would simply (dodge/counter/parry/pull the old swicheroo on) him.
Eh, all the other candidates are jokes except for Gravel and Kucinich.
I'm giving my primary vote to Ron Paul because he's the only one who has a sound understanding of economics and foreign policy... well he's the only one who stands by the Constitution. HELL, he warned us the market would crash and a good piece of it got its booty kicked today.-- AND it's only going to get worse! Anyways, the others are war mongering flip flopping douche bags.
This is old.
That was rather... underwhelming.
I love how the internet is TOTALLY convinced that Ron Paul is amazing and that they're somehow a large enough population to make him win... and yet, he gets next to zilch in the primaries. It makes me warm and fuzzy inside.
Face it, Ron Paul is as nutty as a Huckabee, and at least Huckabee doesn't want to pull out of the UN. LOL politics. I'm voting for McCain, everyone else is frighteningly extreme in their policies.
@Peryite: @d1sco_d3ath: You two are clearly confusing real-life Chuck with INTERNET Chuck. They may look the same, but they differ on certain key points. For example, the latter's tears have been purported to cure cancer, whereas the former's are a rather boring mixture of water and bodily materials.
@jkingsowner: That's just beautiful. Do you request an absentee ballot so you can waste a vote from the comfort of your computer, too?
Not as realistic as having them wrestle is a snake pit fill of grease. That's politics.
what would jackT say about that headline, uh?
It's weird to see Giuliani and not be constantly told that no one is safe in the post 9/11 world and that we will all die immediately unless he is president.
I want candidate skins for TF2.
@AlexDitto:
Yep, McCain is a moderate.
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@Erwin211: I know, totally was hoping it was a JFK Reloaded mod.
i'm impressed by the soundtrack
No Paul, No Play!
@AlexDitto: Dr. Paul placed 2nd in Saturday's Nevada Caucus!
*UPDATE*
- Mr. Thompson retires from the race
- Mr. Huckabee's campaign is bankrupt -- he isn't paying his staffers this month and they are leaving in droves
@d1sco_d3ath:
Yes I vote for a a zombie Reagan!
@AlexDitto: "Bomb bomb bomb bomb IIran/100 years in Iraq' McCain isn't extreme?
@Moonshadow101: LOL!
No, I'm not wasting my vote, because I'm voting in favor of liberty.
Doesn't matter who YOU vote for though, Clinton and the rest are the same. Except the socialist Obama/Clinton want to spend money on a universal health care system even though we're in debt.
But, when the Chinese are here raping your family members (because, well they own us), I'm going to be in Japan giggling my head off and chilling with Shiggy.
Hmm, as much as I hate Romney, shooting the (future) President is a little too scary, even for me...
@jkingsowner: I didn't know that China was a nation of rapists.
Thanks for the warning.
@jkingsowner: @jkingsowner: You are one scary little kid.
I'm not even going to get into the politics of which president to support, but I said...
1. that The War in Iraq was going to turn out bad.
2. An economy can't keep growing forever
3. World powers switch hands roughly every 200 years, and no country has ever topped that.
4. Global Warming is real.
5. Bush is an idiot.
And this was back in 2001.
It's now 2008, and every one of my predictions came true/everybody agrees with me.
Kirbytheslayer For President!
He Predicted stuff too!
Is it just me or does macain and his wife look like they are constantly thinking about the nasty?
@Erwin211:
Never implied that.
@jkingsowner: "But, when the Chinese are here raping your family members (because, well they own us), I'm going to be in Japan giggling my head off and chilling with Shiggy."
Maybe I'm just taking things out of context, maybe I misunderstood you, maybe you are making extreme predictions about a communist occupied US, maybe you mean that a small group of Chinese serial rapists are now specifically targeting gaming blog commentators. Whatever it is, I wish the original meaning of that was more clear and less open to interpretation.
@Kirbytheslayer: KirbySlayer (PSN): If by "everybody" you mean just you, then yea.
@Erwin211:
I think he meant "rape" in the internet sense, as in "I raped you in COD4"
And while a physical occupation is unlikely, in many ways an economic occupation is already taking place.
@topaz420: I suppose you're right. On both counts. He could have used clearer wording, though. With charm like that, I'm sure he could befriend "Shiggy" in a heartbeat.
I played as Obama, then as Hillary. Then, as every other character. The game doesn't change.
I was hoping for different skills.
Like Hillary could cry to distract her opponents or something.
@stan ls: You mean the Iraq war turned out well, and was well under it's predicted $20 billion dollar estimate, and is over?
Or that it's possible to make something out of nothing?
Or that history is a lie?
Or that Global Warming isn't real?
Or that Bush's approval rating is above 35%?
Face it, everything there is true. I'm not sure what you're implying is false about my statements.
@Erwin211: The guy is obviously crazy. Anybody who says "I'm voting for LIBERTY!" at any time, under any excuse is insane. It doesn't even matter what your other opinions are. If you "vote for Liberty", you're a nutter.
@Kirbytheslayer: Kirbytheslayer: You could be right too. That did sound ridiculous, but I try not to judge based on stupid comments.
By the way: Can I be running mate? Kirbytheslayer sounds just like what this country needs right now. I suggest the campaign slogan be "A vote for Kirbytheslayer is a vote for Liberty!"
@Kirbytheslayer: :
Why, is liberty a dirty word?
Many of ours are already being threatened: personal liberties, liberty from entangling alliances, liberty of speech, of internet, of personal property, even the liberty to do with our bodies what we please!
I see no problem in voting for a candidate that will defend liberty, a cornerstone of this nation since its inception.
@topaz420: No, he's not voting for a candidate that will defend liberty, he's voting for LIBERTY! itself.
The way he used it, it's only said out of gross ignorance and stupidity. It's not the concept of supporting Liberty that's wrong.
@Kirbytheslayer: Kirbytheslayer:
Yeah, you're right kirbytheslayer, I'm voting for the personification of Liberty. In fact, if it's not on the ballot, I'm going writer her in. And if there's no paper trail, I'm going to raise 70 grand for any recount necessary, so I can get her fine ass into the office...
Exaggerate much?
going to write *
(embarrassed)