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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."
This would make a lot of sense for training Marines, but why a mass market game? They say they want to tell their stories, but that's what memoirs are for. Looks to me like they are out to make a buck.
... and since we were in Iraq keeping the world safe for Socialism, we must stamp down any attempt to make a buck. Highly insightful, Comrade!
I see what you mean. That kill ratio is pretty extreme.
You can't have the player getting killed one encounter in 13. They'll have to tone it down a whole lot, I reckon. Something nearer 100:1 would be nearer the typical FPS ratio.
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Libertarians. They're free to shoot whoever the hell they feel like.
The only thing that would make this game interesting would be for both factions to be playable.
Better yet, make the entire Iraq war an MMORPG.
This is what he means by massacre
War is hell. Given that we sustained almost 100 KIA and nearly 600 WIA, it seems like a safe assumption that we were fighting people who were actually shooting back. Hence I'm skeptical about claims of a "massacre".
it makes you a moron
Also, fuck you ;)
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
These Marines want to tell their story, as many veterans have before them, and they want to do it in a way that they know will reach their own generation
the problem is that their generation gets to play out the story in the only way they know how:
"yo dude, I'm like, totally teabagging the corpses of your entire family of displaced persons"
"goddam wallhacking AWP whore!"
how many pairs of boxer shorts should you own?
You must not suck nearly as bad as I do at them then.....
Monstar L
Well, if you get into trouble all you have to do is enter the Konami Code.
Congratulations
thank you
Sorting out the right and wrong is for the victor to do
congratulations, you just defined Might Makes Right