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[Gamezone]

Anyone remember this game?

 

[burst]

This doesn’t feel right

 

[Hudo]

Makes me want a Full Spectrum Warrior 3, tbh.

 

[SirKicksalot]

Six Days in Fallujah re-emerges 11 years after Konami ditched it

Six Days in Fallujah has re-emerged 11 years after Konami ditched it.The Iraq war game, which is set during 2004's Seco…

www.eurogamer.net

the developers are working with frontline marines and soldiers who fought in the Battle for Fallujah, with over 100 marines, soldiers and Iraqi civilians who were present sharing their stories, photos and recordings. The game will include original documentary interview footage.

Sounds interesting.
The same marines and studio lead working on it, plus

Highwire signed on to make the game. Highwire was created by Jaime Griesemer, who was lead designer for the original Halo and Destiny games, Marty O'Donnell, who was audio director and composer for Halo and Destiny, and Jared Noftle, who co-founded Airtight Games.

 

[Gamezone]

Makes me want a Full Spectrum Warrior 3, tbh.

I was never a fan of the combat in Full Spectrum Warrior. Wasn't it only tactical? You couldn't even aim yourself if I remember it correctly.

 

[Cert.in.Death]

Should I be worried about being banned from social media if I promote this game?

/s

 

[Hudo]

I was never a fan of the combat in Full Spectrum Warrior. Wasn't it only tactical? You couldn't even aim yourself if I remember it correctly.

Yeah it was sorta like Valkyria Chronicles in a way. You'd have a couple of squads and give them movement commands and general commands from a third-person camera of the current selected squad. You couldn't aim directly.
It's not for everyone and the game(s) got criticized for that as well, which I can understand. But I loved them.

 

[ChuckeRearmed]

Well...That's unexpected.

 

[TheContact]

i remember this game but i can't recall what was particulartly too controversial about the game. maybe just was trying to be released too soon when the topic was a lot more passionate then.

 

[AJUMP23]

I never thought this game would see the light of day, but I hope they do make it.

 

[Umbasaborne]

 

[Bragr]

America hates their soldiers now, the game is gonna get assaulted by a horde of tools and trolls.

 

[ManaByte]

America hates their soldiers now, the game is gonna get assaulted by a horde of tools and trolls.

If you thought people went after CDPR before Cyberpunk came out, you ain’t seen nothing yet.

 

[nush]

 

[Northeastmonk]

The only thing this tells me is that if you wait long enough people will stop being offended by sensitive subjects. Honestly, veterans who served during that time dealt with some severe hardships. Interpreting that in entertainment media deserves better than a cancelled project that no one talks about anymore.

 

[Shmunter]

This will have the SJW’s twisting into pretzels

 

[Sander Cohen]

What’s the problem, current president voted wholeheartedly for that war.

 

[ThatStupidLion]

I've got mixed feelings regarding the raw and real-life authenticity of events being treated as a game, but honestly when you take a step back and look at it as a whole it's just like every other piece of entertainment media/art. people can do whatever they want with their art, storytelling, and vision. a videogame is just the medium used to convey the feelings, history, narrative, etc.

its actually pretty wild - i'm unsure if this is the "first" of its kind - a AAA documentary-game. could be pretty eye-opening on a bunch of levels

 

[TheMan]

Wait, this is teh same game that got cancelled like 15 years ago?

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

What the fuck? Wasn't this a Konami-published game back in the day? Or would've been, had they not axed it.

 

[AnotherOne]

 

[kraspkibble]

honestly never heard of it. maybe it was a bit too raw back then but i reckon enough time has passed. i think it's important to tell the stories of war even if it's in the form of a video game

 

[Concern]

I was looking forward to this back then. Now I couldn't care less. I don't expect anything to come of this.

 

[Halo is Back]

Fuck yes, so glad this is not cancelled forever. I hope they treat the subject material with respect.

 

[kraspkibble]

I was looking forward to this back then. Now I couldn't care less. I don't expect anything to come of this.

good for you

 

[nikos]

Looks good and has online co-op according to Steam. Day one for sure.

 

[Raven117]

I'm definitely giving this a shot. I think it is an interesting take and wonder how they approach the subject matter.

 

[Concern]

good for you

Thanks for quoting me just to reassure my opinion. I feel so much better now.

 

[dyergram]

I was disappointed when this got cancelled always thought it had promise. I watched a bit of generation kill the other day thinking they should re visit this as it’s far enough removed from the actual events to tell the story. However looking at the rhetoric on twitter and the other site I could see this getting cancelled again there’s a lot of people in our (the video game) community that are violently apposed to critical thought and nuance.

 

[Tajaz2426]

Hmmm, maybe enough time has passed.

 

[Stephen Curry]

Inject that Marty O’Donnell score into my veins. Weird to see him compose music for something more modern and not sci-fi/fantasy.

 

[jaysius]

Six days in Fallujah and I'm a-gonna make it home tonight
Well, my Humvee's a little old but that don't mean she's slow
That's a flame from my stack and that smoke's a-blowin' black as coal
My bases' a-comin' in sight
If you think I'm a-happy, you're right
Six days in Fallujah and I'm a-gonna make it home tonight
Six days in Fallujah and I'm a-gonna make it home tonight
Six days in Fallujah and I'm a-gonna make it home tonight

 

[Soltype]

Now where's This is Vegas?

 

[MiguelItUp]

I can't say anyone expected this, haha. Not sure what to expect in the final product, but I'll keep it on my radar!

 

[Mediocre Arachno-Lad]

The same marines and studio lead working on it, plus

Not sure if it's a good thing.
From what footage is available of the original title, it was a rather pedestrian cover shooter and they couldn't stick the landing on that. This looks like it could be a free DLC for Insurgency Sandstorm.
Can't wait to not hear from this game for another 7 years.

 

[Husky]

h-holy shit
well that's cool

 

[Perrott]

REEEEEEEEEEE babies and that ZhugeEX loser are already throwing shit at this game.

Fuck them, this revival is the best news of the year so far, the premise sounds really unique for a FPS.

 

[Shmunter]

Bo_Hazem interested into your view of the subject matter being near that part of the world....

 

[ripeavocado]

Looks cool , I want to play it, we need some realistic shooters.

 

[FUBARx89]

REEEEEEEEEEE babies and that ZhugeEX loser are already throwing shit at this game.

Fuck them, this revival is the best news of the year so far, the premise sounds really unique for a FPS.

I......don't understand why Ree are going "hur hur, another brown person killer" and "yey, another jingoistic American shooter".

Have they skipped most modern day fps games in the past decade or so?

It sounded an intresting game at the time, hopefully they manage to actually get the destruction on point like they claimed.

Will be keeping an eye on it.

 

[Spokker]

The controversy over this game helped set back gaming as an art form. Its release, assuming the final game is given the proper care, would right a wrong. I empathize with the parents of slain soldiers who criticized the game, but I felt that they did not understand the potential power of a game to depict and explain military conflict if done correctly.

 

[DeuceGamer]

This will have the SJW’s twisting into pretzels

Will? You mean it does already.

 

[Fahdis]

Rename the Game to: Six Years+ of Our Fuck Ups

Imagine bombing a country to hell for false nuclear pretenses along with imperialistic agendas creating a power vacuum and then having their poor take guns in a foreign land to get killed.

 

[Halo0629]

A canceled 2010 game gets resurrected and it actually looks great now.

 

[Amiga]

the politicians who new the actual truth of the situation sent these solders. they chose their enemies for them and dropped them in a life or death situation. these politicians are back while the solders are forgotten or worse.

 

[eyesabitdull]

i remember this game but i can't recall what was particulartly too controversial about the game. maybe just was trying to be released too soon when the topic was a lot more passionate then.

Yeap. That was pretty much it.

There was some passing words that the US government didnt want the game out because it really strived to show the horrors of the war, but I'm not too sure about that.

It has been more than two decades since the war started, so probably why its finally coming out.

 

[Devgru]

The controversy over this game helped set back gaming as an art form. Its release, assuming the final game is given the proper care, would right a wrong. I empathize with the parents of slain soldiers who criticized the game, but I felt that they did not understand the potential power of a game to depict and explain military conflict if done correctly.

True we can have controversial films or books about war but for some reason not games, glad we're moving on with the times. Glad they revived this, funnily enough I was thinking about what had happened to this game the other day.

REEEEEEEEEEE babies and that ZhugeEX loser are already throwing shit at this game.

Fuck them, this revival is the best news of the year so far, the premise sounds really unique for a FPS.

Gaming Journos are already throwing a hissy fit about this game, there's a massive thread on resetera about it.

 

[Bo_Hazem]

Bo_Hazem interested into your view of the subject matter being near that part of the world....

Both are enemies, the US invaders, oil seekers, and their puppets, ISIS. The Iraqi civilians are the victims, and heroes. Any mature person knows that.

 

[Ascend]

For the ones that don't know or understand the reactions in this thread, I refer you to this video;

 

[Barakov]

Anyone remember this game?