According to a mysterious source, Atomic Games' controversial Six Days in Fallujah has been finished and is ready for release this year. This source has promised that the game will be released as well. Now, if only they could find a publisher with more balls than Konami ...
"I can promise you that game is still coming out and it is finished," claims the source.
Six Days was torn apart by mainstream media within 48 hours of being announced, and Konami chickened out of publishing it because it somehow wasn't prepared for backlash from a game set in Iraq. Hopefully whichever publisher dares to take the game on won't agree to take it on, only to get cold feet later and leave the game hanging. With Activision currently raping Call of Duty up its arse, we could do with another war FPS to take the mantle.
Six Days in Fallujah Finished, Still Coming Out [IGN]
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7:00 AM on 03.03.2010
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And "we could do with another war FPS to take the mantle." Really? Are you being fucking serious here?
From WIKI:
Shortly after the announcement of the game, Six Days was met with criticism by war veterans from the United Kingdom as well as a UK peace group, Stop the War Coalition.[14] Reg Keys, father of slain Royal Military Police Lance Corporal Thomas Keys, stated that "Considering the enormous loss of life in the Iraq War, glorifying it in a video game demonstrates very poor judgement and bad taste... These horrific events should be confined to the annals of history, not trivialized and rendered for thrill-seekers to play out... It's entirely possible that Muslim families will buy the game, and for them it may prove particularly harrowing. Even worse, it could end up in the hands of a fanatical young Muslim and incite him to consider some form of retaliation or retribution."[15]
Tim Collins, a former lieutenant colonel of the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiment, shared a similar disposition. Collins stated, "It's much too soon to start making video games about a war that's still going on, and an extremely flippant response to one of the most important events in modern history. It's particularly insensitive given what happened in Fallujah, and I will certainly oppose the release of this game.[15]
A representative from the UK peace group, Stop the War Coalition commented, "The massacre carried out by American and British forces in Fallujah in 2004 is amongst the worst of the war crimes carried out in an illegal and immoral war. It is estimated that up to 1,000 civilians died in the bombardment and house to house raids... The American led assault on Fallujah pretended there were no civilians left in the city BUT over 50,000 people remained in their homes and took the brunt of the violence and chemical weapons...in opinion of some people "to make a game out of a war crime and to capitalize on the death and injury of thousands is wrong... The massacre in Fallujah should be remembered with shame and horror not glamorized and glossed over for entertainment."[16]
To counter the accusations made by critics, in an interview with Joystiq, Tamte stated that "As we've watched the dialog that's taken place about the game, there is definitely one point that we want people to understand about the game. And that is, it's not about the politics of whether the US should have been there or not. It is really about the stories of the Marines who were in Fallujah and the question, the debate about the politics, that is something for the politicians to worry about. We're focused now on what actually happened on the ground."[6]
I wouldn't even say that is all of it, that's mostly UK opinions, lets not start on the US ones. What Jim is referring to as far as another FPS to take over, he's saying fuck Activision.
Also thanks for playing educate the retard game.
fair enough. I hate mw2. It's a turd sandwhich. On topic I agree with your reasoning in why this game should be published.
I agree with the "Fuck Activision" sentiment but that hardly means that we should suddenly be looking for games "take the mantle" from Call of Duty that result in few differences beyond a name change. At this point saying we need more war FPS is like saying we need more reality TV.
Without those thigns many people won't be happy with it.
I will, but many won't.
The fear that gamers will become farther removed from the tragedy of real death or worse, that being made into game form to have a bunch of people running around getting killcounts while using every form of racist and homophobic insult mocks the memory of those who took real bullets.
Call Of Duty has long straddled the fence on being mocking of real soldiers even if they are fiction. But this is straight up a real piece of history being thrown into virtual form.
If any game shouldn't have multiplayer, it'd be this one. So many gamers constantly demonstrate a callousness and inability to understand what is senstive topics to most the world, multiplayer would diminish this into being that mocking thing those offended would hate to see.
I'm all for this being released. I don't believe things should be shelved or censored because one person has baggage in life that another doesn't that allows their sensibilities to dictate what is released for everyone.
I've always agreed with put it out, you don't like it then don't buy it.
I just hope they do try to keep it as serious a tone in the solo and can completely see, especially with multi, those that were there or lost someone it is offensive.
I'm not going to lie or am trying to act above anything. They release it, I'll play it. Let's just hope they don't go the Infinity Ward route by way of making everyone in the game industry, be it gamers OR developers, look like a bunch of sociopath frat boys to everyone else in the world.
Unless the game is looking like utter crap (who knows, maybe it is) a publisher would have to be daft not to pick this up.
If and only if you have the power and will to actually sell the game.
...is what is wrong with the gaming world right now.
There is so much more to online gaming than killstreaks, perks and other CoD stuff.
I was being sarcastic because i FUCKING HATE CoD and how millions of noobs think it's the greatest thing since sliced bread, millions of "gamers" who turn their nose up at anything without killstreaks and perks.
Gimme Socom anyday.
I would fucking hate a CoD clone, I want something gritty, realistic, emotional, thought provoking and respectful to what happened over there.
However millions of gamers out there WILL want a CoD clone.
Not me though.
I hope its a good, thought provoking game, and that THQ or EA jump to get this to shelves.
Best thing to do is get a demo out, Atomic, so you can quash the fearmongers butthurt.
Let me guess- is your character in the game a member of special forces or are you corporate mercenary?
Do you go around planting bombs to terrorize civilians and then issue press releases about suspected "insurgents" being behind the attacks?
Will it have scenes of US forces using chemical warfare on civilians?
Will it feature children's corpses immolated by white phosphorous?
When you rape children, then light their corpses on fire to cover up the war atrocities and blatant terrorism, is it in 3rd person or first?
I hope it's all documented and in the game. I hope they name names.
Perhaps they can do photo and video montages of the actual torture sessions (since it's mostly declassified now) and run it behind the credits for the game?
There is so much potential here.
@sebastian baba: I don't think he was saying anything bad about Obama. But even though he didn't start the war, he sure as hell isn't stopping it.
I think games need the balls to cover stuff like this. If it hits, I will buy it.
If the 'source'' says it WILL come out, Im assuming they must have a publisher.
But that said, saying that this or any other war games will desensitise gamers to war is downright retarded. No one (I hope) is stupid enough to think that call of duty or any video game really represents war. fighting online war in a videogame is VERY different to fighting it for real, and I dont think for one second anyone on cod, even the loud mouth, homophobic morons, think that because war is fun in a videogame it's fun in real life. I think every person knows instinctually war is a bad think, a destructive thing, and a fun videogame will not ever change that.