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V-Tech Rampage
V-Tech Rampage is a 2007 action game created by Australian amateur video game developer Ryan Lambourn. The game recreates the Virginia Tech shooting, and was released in 12 May 2007 on Newgrounds, less than a month after the shooting occurred.
The previous prominent virtual school shooting reenactment Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, a role-playing video game, has received praise for artistic merit as well as condemnation. V-Tech Rampage was created to be offensive without redeeming value.
In 2013, Lambourn caused further controversy with his game The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary, which re-created the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Unlike V-Tech Rampage, however, The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary was created to support gun control laws.
The game is a one-person work released three weeks after the Virginia Tech shooting. Its graphics and controls are intentionally clumsy. The player controls Seung-Hui Cho, the killer, through "3 levels of stealth and murder!" in a slanted overhead view. In the first level, the player must walk across the Virginia Tech campus to shoot Emily J. Hilscher, Cho's real-life first victim, without killing too many other people or scaring Emily away. Emily's death is witnessed by Ryan Clark, Cho's second victim, who also must be killed. In the second, he must walk across the same campus while avoiding the searchlights of police investigators. This is the only section with an appreciable challenge. In the third, he barricades the exit of a school building and must shoot everyone inside in 90 seconds before the police arrive to arrest him. During this level, a song created by Lambourn plays while audio clips praise, laugh at murder, or scold the player for merely wounding. Liviu Librescu is the only real victim to appear in this segment. The game concludes with Cho's suicide, which occurs when the player presses the shoot button.
Cho monologues about mission goals and can also speak to other characters, whose reactions differ depending on whether they're fleeing Cho or not. The game's dialogue has occasional grammar or spelling errors and is riddled with obscenities, insults, racist terms, scatological references, and offers of sex from female characters in exchange for their lives.
Lambourn offered to remove the game if he received $2,000 in "donations". For an additional $1,000, he offered to apologize.
Attention angry people: I will take this game down from newgrounds (the games website) if the donation amount reaches $1000 US. I'll take it down from here [his website] if it reaches $2000 US, and I will apologise if it reaches $3000 US.
Lambourn later retracted the offer to remove the game, stating:
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V-Tech Rampage
V-Tech Rampage is a 2007 action game created by Australian amateur video game developer Ryan Lambourn. The game recreates the Virginia Tech shooting, and was released in 12 May 2007 on Newgrounds, less than a month after the shooting occurred.
The previous prominent virtual school shooting reenactment Super Columbine Massacre RPG!, a role-playing video game, has received praise for artistic merit as well as condemnation. V-Tech Rampage was created to be offensive without redeeming value.
In 2013, Lambourn caused further controversy with his game The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary, which re-created the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting. Unlike V-Tech Rampage, however, The Slaying of Sandy Hook Elementary was created to support gun control laws.
The game is a one-person work released three weeks after the Virginia Tech shooting. Its graphics and controls are intentionally clumsy. The player controls Seung-Hui Cho, the killer, through "3 levels of stealth and murder!" in a slanted overhead view. In the first level, the player must walk across the Virginia Tech campus to shoot Emily J. Hilscher, Cho's real-life first victim, without killing too many other people or scaring Emily away. Emily's death is witnessed by Ryan Clark, Cho's second victim, who also must be killed. In the second, he must walk across the same campus while avoiding the searchlights of police investigators. This is the only section with an appreciable challenge. In the third, he barricades the exit of a school building and must shoot everyone inside in 90 seconds before the police arrive to arrest him. During this level, a song created by Lambourn plays while audio clips praise, laugh at murder, or scold the player for merely wounding. Liviu Librescu is the only real victim to appear in this segment. The game concludes with Cho's suicide, which occurs when the player presses the shoot button.
Cho monologues about mission goals and can also speak to other characters, whose reactions differ depending on whether they're fleeing Cho or not. The game's dialogue has occasional grammar or spelling errors and is riddled with obscenities, insults, racist terms, scatological references, and offers of sex from female characters in exchange for their lives.
Lambourn offered to remove the game if he received $2,000 in "donations". For an additional $1,000, he offered to apologize.
Attention angry people: I will take this game down from newgrounds (the games website) if the donation amount reaches $1000 US. I'll take it down from here [his website] if it reaches $2000 US, and I will apologise if it reaches $3000 US.
Lambourn later retracted the offer to remove the game, stating:
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