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Konami Announces a Game Based On a 2004 Battle In Fallujah
The LA Times reports that Konami has announced Six Days in Fallujah, a video game due out next year that is based on an actual battle fought in Iraq in 2004. Quoting:
"The idea for the game ... came from US Marines who returned from the battle with video, photos and diaries of their experiences. Instead of dialing up Steven Spielberg to make a movie version of their stories, they turned to Atomic Games, a company in Raleigh, NC, that makes combat simulation software for the military. ... 'The soldiers wanted to tell their stories through a game because that's what they grew up playing,' said John Choon, senior brand manager for the game at Konami... More than a dozen Marines are featured in documentary-style video interviews that are interspersed with the game's action. The Marines reappear in the game itself, doing pretty much what they did during the war. One tells the story of how he furiously wrote a letter to his wife and begged a chaplain to give it to her if he died. Another, Eddie Garcia, talks about how his right leg was shredded in a mortar attack, and how he suffered survivor's guilt after he was taken out of combat."
Fuck these guys. They should be thrown in jail or shot not making fucking video games.
If you don't want massacres, then don't fight the USA. That the USA can massacre its opponents is a GOOD thing, as it brings more American soldiers home alive.
Which is why I pray to the imaginary God that we will see the civil war the wing-nutters predict, so I can do to you what you so casually believe we should do to others.
Think about that when YOU'RE on the business end of an AK47. As the bullets blow your world away, know that in the country where your murderer came from you will be immortalised in a computer game, where for a split second some ignorant brute bursts into your house and shoots you as you cower in your bed.
Two words for you:
Fuck. Off.
RS
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No, no, you seem to have misunderstood, this game is about Fallujah, not Viet Nam
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/apr/04/iraq.iraq Guess someone doesn't read the news much?
Not to put too fine a point on it, but one of the most important aspects of being part of a military invasion is being trained and able to tell the difference between civillians and enemies.
The only problem is that the "wing-nutters" have all the guns.
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Troll?? Bloody hell never expected this to be a biased forum. I am allowed to express my opinions and I say it as I see it.
The only people who ever want fair fights are those who never get into them in the first place.
Why fight if you don't know you will win? These aren't water gun fights. These aren't video games where you respawn at your last checkpoint. This is war and if you aren't the best person on the battle field, you're a corpse and your mother cries at your funeral.
Americans are the best at war because we have to be. We are the liberators of the oppressed, we are the end of genocides, and we are the carriers of liberty throughout the entire world.
The list of countries who owe their independence to the fighting spirit of the American soldier is staggering. Kuait, Israel, France, Poland, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Belgum, Netherlands, Greece, Egypt, Italy, Tripolli, South Korea, Panama, Spain, and now Iraq and Afhganastan. There are more than those listed here. The vast majority of those listed are those rescued from German control in the second world war or those created by the second world war. We could also add the soviet countries who fell out after the US broke the soviet republic during the cold war. We could even add the great ole United Kingdom because if not for us stopping the germans, they were next.
So yeah, talk bad about the murderers in our military. Just don't do it from one of the countries listed here.
--Forest C. Adcock--
It isn't like 'they' are playing by the rules either....beheadings, dragging corpses and burning them in the streets, etc.
War is a nasty business...especially when we try to fight it by holding back and winning the hearts and minds crap. It is faster and cleaner to go in with overwhelming force...wipe all the enemy out with prejudice, and then when won, start the rebuild.
At least we didn't just nuke parts of the place, turn the sand into glass....and start real easy from that point.
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Are you fucking kidding me? The US killed well over 300,000 civilians by bombing them in WWII. The Germans got about 100,000. And the US dropped TWO NUCLEAR WEAPONS on Japanese cities, and killed more civilians in Tokyo in TWO DAYS than the Germans managed to kill by bombing in the entire fucking war. More humane my ass. Fucking disgusting white-washing of history. Especially when you consider only 1,700 US civilians died in WWII, compared to the millions in other countries. Where the fuck did you attend school? The G.I. Joe Academy of Isn't America Fucking Brilliant and Fuck the Brown People?
And the US started the war in Iraq, not the people of Fallujah. So your last line kind of says "The US wants to kill civilians". Nice.
I find it sad that people mod you as flamebait instead the original poster that is basically claiming that in war there are no rules of morality. I liked Slashdot a lot more when it wasn't overrun by an audience of chickenhawk Republicans.
Im sorry but I have mod you down, that informative post from a first hand account does not support my pre-conceived notion that all Americans are civilian murdering war mongers.
4 guys with box cutters vs. a plane crew and 150 panicky passengers. Just as ridiculous as finding a passport of one of the alleged
hijackers on the ground after the plane hit. Or.. the guys going to a strip club on the eve of the supposedly glorious day they get
to be holy martrys..or and research this: How BBC reported WTC Building #7 (The Solomon Building) collapsed HOURS before it did
or how they first claimed they "pulled" it (demolished it), then claimed it collapsed because of having been hit by debris when
the owner Larry Silverstein (to be bailed out as well with a cool billion) admitted in Sept 2002 in a PBS interview that "he and the
NYFD decided to pull the building (btw it takes WEEKS to prepare a building with explosives for demolition).
4 guys with box cutters doesn't even begin to describe how ridiculous this is.