Glasgow-based Traffic Games has launched an Internet video game -- JFK: Reloaded -- that allows gamers to recreate the assassination of former US president John F Kennedy.

The former president's family and friends, however, have dubbed the game 'despicable,' report British newspapers

In JFK: Reloaded, gamers are 'placed' at the sixth-floor window from where they are supposed to play the role of Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and fire at President Kennedy's motorcade.

The game awards or subtracts points based on how accurately your shots match the official version of events as documented in by the Warren Commission, which investigated Kennedy's assassination.

If you shoot Kennedy in the 'correct spots,' you are awarded points, but if you shoot the first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, it leads to score deductions.

The game can be downloaded from the Internet for $9.99.

Traffic Games said it would give $100,000 to the first gamer to 'most accurately recreate' the three fatal shots fired by Oswald in Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 1963. The company said it took seven months for a ten-member team to study and six months to programme the recreation of the events surrounding Kennedy's assassination.

The company has devised the game on the premise that theirs is no conspiracy in the Kennedy assassination as has been often said.

This Internet image shows a screen from a new video game called 'JFK Reloaded' released by the Scottish game company Traffic. The objective is to fire three shots at Kennedy's motorcade in Dallas from assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's sixth-floor perch in the Texas School Book Depository, all of which has been digitally re-created. Photo: HO/AFP/Getty Images