Comments on: Free online game lets you be 'Hero of the Hudson'

Game that lets you maneuver an emergency landing like the US Airways pilot did last month has been called everything from fun to offensive.

[sanenazok]

This game is an attempt at getting "exposure" and you're giving it to them. It's not any kind of commentary; it adds nothing to the event other than an attempt at freeriding on the success of someone else. I played the game and won first try - there is no physics engine, just up/down. Also, there are engine noises...while the plane was a glider by the time of the landing. So in other words, they got nothing right, and still it's getting coverage.

[Dr_Zinj]

The game is insulting and offensive due to the fact that it is far too easy. Winners are NOT 'Heroes of the Hudson'; rather, they are leeches suckign their own unwarranted self-aggrandizement out of the real experience, training, and skills of the pilot and crew of US Airways Flight 1549.

You want to be a hero? Make the game heroically difficult. Here's your initial vector, altitude, attitude. You control aux power, flaps, rudder, ailerons, fuel dump, landing gear, etc. You get to pick various options for landing (street, field, water, or try for airport.) You get to try for the window that allows for a survivable landing.

Do that and I'll consider it worthwhile.

[only_truth]

I wouldn't say that anyone who beats a "heroically difficult" game is a hero either. I'm sure Guitar Hero isn't insulting and offensive because of "Expert" mode to real guitarists, then.

[hemanthjava]

Would you wish to pilot a plane that got crashed? The answer would be a resounding no, unless you talk about a crash in which there is a miraculous landing with no hurt crew and each shouting about the heroics of the pilot.

http://www.iwebie.com/miracle-on-the-hudson-online-game

[scarlethawk]

Since the free game is titled "Hero of the Hudson" of course the game will have a happy ending. If you want "pay for carnage" there's plenty of games out there.

[awilensky]

Some companies act like the mentally disabled, unable to contain certain impulses that any normal person would see as wrong. Tone deaf in the extreme.

[bhartman33]

I tried this game, landing successfully on the first try. I don't think it's insulting to the survivors, but I do think it's too easy. It doesn't give you anything close to a picture of how difficult it must've been to land the plane.

Of course, it's arguable that the game doesn't <i>need</i> to give you an accurate picture of how difficult it was to land the plane, but I think <i>some</i> level of complexity would've been nice. The game doesn't match the feat at all.