Offensive - or just boring and stupid?.

Casual Games, small Internet games for in between, are enjoying growing popularity. Now there is one on the "Heroes of the Hudson" in which we ourselves as an Airbus pilot Notwassern can. For more than one reason is because the question whether it really should be.

 

Since the 15th January 2009 is Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger an American Hero: The pictures of the successful ditching its Airbus A320 on the New York Hudson River went around the world. The pilot of flight 1549 is called the "Hero on the Hudson" is celebrated.

In the two weeks since then for Sullenberger happens a lot: New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg promised him the keys to the city, first called George W. Bush, then Barack Obama, U.S. Congress and Senate decided Honors for pilot and crew. The pilot union and the firefighters of California awarded him medals, his home town of Denville, California Sullenberger honored with several awards and an honorary officer of its police posts. Even the Association of seaplane pilots did not take Sullenberger a lifetime honorary member to be appointed.

All this and it even have a fan club for Sullenberger Facebook admit, can be seen on the on 15 Incurred in January 2009, he dedicated Wikipedia page after reading his biography in the chapter "Early Years," "Military Time", "Civil Pilot," "Academic Life", "private life" and, of course, "Flight 1549" divided.

What is not yet drinsteht are two things: First, that Sullenberger and crew on Sunday, 1.2.2009, the ultimate American experience Honor - a tribute by the NFL at the opening of the Super Bowl. And secondly, that it is now even a kind Sullenberger game out there.

To Hudson River Landing, "as the Flash-game is, however, distinguished the ghost.

Publication date is the thing, among others Tastygames ( "tasteful Games") and the popular portal Addicting Games, that is "looking building games." But clearly it is not: neither tasteful nor looking building.

The Flash game is reduced Sullenbergers unprecedented feat of pilots on the left and right keys, to which it was crashing Flight 1549 balanced. Anyone who keeps flying horizontally, also floats gently down, and successfully, as was an Airbus in truth a kind of helicopter. The virtual passengers, the pilot in front of the monitor then rejoice, may be right - but above all it is cheap.

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Because lo and behold: The Ditching turns out to be a children's game that you no later than the second-how. Fun, the "looking-building game" then possibly another, twice if you try to stiff the pilots deliberately crashed steeply to leave, to see what happens.

But even with the fun factor remains virtually and definitely not measurable. What is okay, because neither plane crashes or emergency landings are now happy times in the leisure category for in-between.

On the weekend reported almost all U.S. media about the game, and not a few wonder if this deal with the hero of Hudson is now offensive - or just stupid?

Addicting Games, the page on which the game is mainly distributed, in any case seems to be an ambivalent relationship to the mess to maintain: First, has there since Friday night for about 1.3 million calls and provided the game-side as a lot of publicity introduced.

On the other hand, the Hudson game itself with the clientele zockenden not just good: After the majority of the visitors the game rated as poor, Addicting Games drew the consequences - and let the reviews, along with the usual assessment tool disappear. Shortly afterwards, must delete the comment feature of the site believe. Because there had been clear judgments regelrecht gehagelt: They ranged from "a waste of time" to "simply silly". Again, the debate was limited essentially to the question whether the game is just boring and stupid, or is offensive.

Everything is not meant

Most commentators here in the press think that it was particularly stupid. In any case, it was well meant, at least, say the makers. They had a game with a positive message to offer. One in which you "a miracle, not a tragedy" could experience. Therefore, they are also deliberately made very simple, the emergency landing style.

This is the
so far only interview with Andriy Sharanevych shows the head of the agency games
Orb Games. The U.S. has chosen CNBC Channel in Ukraine started - and published the e-mail interview run on Saturday. A few days after the ditching, the programmers after only two days of intensive work the game is finished. Now since it was published about ten days and document what the company to afford means of Orb.

This swashes finally the most anticipated effect of the PR game Airman low on the self and the maker of them operated on Tastygames games portal. But this was for Sharanevych and his crew are not expected to succeed - probably because it all too much excited attention: The Corporate Tastygames.com was just like the weekend is no longer reachable. Apparently it has the Service Provider the juice off.