Recently, there has been a lot of outrage about the newly announced Iraq War game, Six Days in Fallujah, from both the activist and the military community.
While there are always some vocal voices opposed to such depictions of realism, G4tv.com took the time to ask actual military personnel, who are also gamers, what they thought of the game.
"The Seattle-based (Washington , the US) indie games publisher Victura and indie games developer Highwire Games, are today very happy and excited to announce that they have just released three new missions for their first-person tactical shooter "Six Days in Fallujah", nearly doubling the content in the game (the new missions is available right now for PC via Steam Early Access)." - Jonas Ek, TGG.
Six Days In Fallujah is a controversial military sim which just hit Early Access. Jump Dash Roll dives into the battlefield to give its first impressions on a possible rival to Call of Duty.
14 years after its original controversy-filled announcement, Six Days in Fallujah has made its way into Early Access. How does this milsim game fare?
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As a vet of this war I just think it is way to soon for games about the war. There seems to be an unspoken tradition that game devs have waited out the conclusions of conflicts before they pumped out games about them.
I feel that if videogames want to be taken as a more serious medium developers need to take the risk in making games based on current events, whether popular or not. Videogames will only start being recognized as the same as movies and lit when they can provide an accurate social commentary on the events impacting our lives.
Making a game based on the iraq war needs to be a reflection of the effect the war is having on everyone, and as long as the game doesn't imply that war itself is game like, I see no reason why it may be too soon. Movies, tv shows, books, all of which have come out earlier use the iraq war as a backdrop so I see no reason why games should be required to take a backseat.
I just hope that the games does an accurate job of portraying the full effects of the war.
people should not let images influence them.
"You will have your group of idiots that try to be the terrorists and kill Americans and shout obscenities through the TV, damning American military personnel,"
These clowns would be soundly raped for sport by outnumbering scores of true Americans.