Current Events > Cancelled Iraq War FPS Six Days in Fallujah 'resurrected' for 2021 release

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https://www.ign.com/articles/six-days-in-fallujah-2021-release

Six Days in Fallujah, a military FPS based on a real Iraq War battle, has been resurrected by a new developer and publisher after being cancelled by its original publisher over a decade ago.

Set for release on PC and consoles this year, the new version of Six Days in Fallujah is developed by Highwire Games - a studio founded by Halos lead designer - and published by Victura. A tactical shooter, the game is based on events that took place in 2004 during the Second Battle for Fallujah in Iraq.

Designed with accuracy in mind, over 100 Marines, soldiers, and Iraqi civilians have been interviewed to ensure authenticity. The campaign depicts six days of conflict as experienced by the U.S. Marines as they attempted to recapture Fallujah from Al Qaeda. To simulate the battle, the developers at Highwire Games claim to have created unique technologies and game mechanics designed to replicate the uncertainty and tactics of modern combat in a way other games do not.

The original version of Six Days in Fallujah was announced in 2009 by developer Atomic Games and publisher Konami, but was met with criticism from war veterans and anti-war groups. Setting a violent video game in a real world war - particularly one not just fresh in the memory, but also seen as unjust - was seen as controversial. This caused Konami to pull out of the project. While never formally cancelled by Atomic Games, news on Six Days in Fallujah gradually faded. In the years since, Atomic Games former CEO, Peter Tamte, has set up Victura, and has been working on a new version of Six Days In Fallujah since 2016.

Its hard to understand what combat is actually like through fake people doing fake things in fake places, said Tamte in a press statement. This generation showed sacrifice and courage in Iraq as remarkable as any in history. And now theyre offering the rest of us a new way to understand one of the most important events of our century. Its time to challenge outdated stereotypes about what video games can be.

Tamte himself was the executive vice-president of Bungie during the development and launch of Halo: Combat Evolved. The development team of the new version of Six Days In Fallujah is headed up by Jaime Griesemer, who was lead developer on Halo and Destiny, while music is provided by Halos original composer, Marty O'Donnell. Numerous other ex-Bungie staff make up Highwire, including former design director, character, vehicle, and weapon artists. Victura has said that more details on the game will be released in the coming weeks.

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No Vietnam no buy

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Practice at Fallujah was to open every room of every building and to shoot anybody that might be an insurgent. Boys with apparent age 13 or above were classified as active combatants and shot. The US Military deployed depleted uranium ammunition that has left the area irradiated to this day causing massive amounts of cancer and birth defects in the area. In the first siege, 600 civilans were estimated to be killed by official sources, half of them women & children. There is not even hard numbers for the second battle which is estimated to have civilian death toll in the thousands.

I wonder how many women & children you'll shoot in this game? Not like they're gonna push the M rating. Or jeapordize the game's role as recruitment propaganda for the CIA and FBI, as its original incarnation was.

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fuck this game and the developers turning a war crime into a game.


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Maybe they're gonna go with a "there are no heroes in war" sort of narrative like spec ops still seems like a terrible decision

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ModLogic posted...

fuck this game and the developers turning a war crime into a game.

I hope you dont play any FPS based on any war ever then, unless its that one war with Australia and the Dodos

Anyway, this game seems dumb. The Iraq war wasnt even interesting. Oh, lets play a game where a superior force invades an inferior force over false pretense and then proceeds to do illegal shit. Sounds fun

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ModLogic posted...

fuck this game and the developers turning a war crime into a game.

You must have missed the WW2 and Vietnam games

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