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Controversial shooter Six Days In Fallujah revived 12 years after Konami dropped itHuh! There’s a surprise
Huh! There’s a surprise
Official Six Days in Fallujah Announcement TrailerWatch on YouTube
Official Six Days in Fallujah Announcement Trailer
It adds, “Over 100 Marines, Soldiers, and Iraqi civilians who were present during the Second Battle for Fallujah have shared their personal stories, photographs, and video recordings with the development team.” As well as these shaping the game, they say some will be present as documentary interiews.
This was the old game.
It says that “just because this war was controversial doesn’t mean it wasn’t filled with remarkable stories of sacrifice and courage. It has, however, stopped many of these stories from being told.” It goes on to essentially blame the original’s death on people who “believe video games shouldn’t tackle real-life events” and who think “video games seem more like toys than a medium capable of communicating something insightful.”
Tabloid media like the Daily Mail and Fox News sure didstir controversy, suggesting that this was an insult to the memories of soldiers who died. I imagine that’s a large part of why Konami dropped it. On the flipside, it was controversial to others for making a video game about the aggressors in a still-ongoing war which had used misinformation, jingoism, and Islamophobia to justify invasion, murder, torture, and war crimes. And some criticism wasn’t doubt in video games as a medium as much as doubt in this specific game.
And the new one again.
I know that video games can handle complex and sensitive real-life events. I am sceptical that this particular one will pull it off.
Six Days In Fallujah is due to launch in 2021 on PC and consoles. Maybe for real this time.
