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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."
Are we going to from the people they "fought" against (both the militia and the civilians that they massacred as well as their families and friends); will they be allowed to tell their own versions of the story; what will be sacrificed in order to present us with a coherent story that makes sense; is the game sponsored by the US, Iraq, or other states or their armies?
In other words, who and what will be transformed into subalterns and who will be playing what role in this transformation?
Another brain washing exercise by the media. tut tut!
Find a marine who can write it...
Nothing against those guys, a lot of them are educated, i'm sure, but that doesn't make them writers. Or they would need a ghost writer.. aka developer.
Meh, i shut up.
Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice - Grey's Law
Urban fighting ensued, and the insurgents ultimately lost.
As did hundreds, if not a thousand, innocent bystanders.
Fallujah wasn't a "pitched battle". It was a massacre. Sure, there were insurgents there, and they were out to cause harm. But throwing phosphorous grenades all around, burning civilians alive, obliterating the occupants of whole buildings... out of line.
I don't think I've seen a game based on Vietnam, but this is damn close, and it's disgusting. Wholesale murder with complete disregard.
Our soldiers go out there to protect innocent lives. Unfortunately, they don't seem to give a shit about other nations' innocents, only American innocents. If there were American citizens dotted throughout the buildings in Fallujah, you can be damn sure they'd be a lot more careful. "Oh, but they don't know who is an insurgent and who isn't, so they have to be careful and shoot everybody that could be, including children." Again, sounds just the same as Vietnam, and it's no less disgusting today.
Murder is murder. It doesn't matter if you are scared that someone could be an insurgent. If they are innocent, and you killed them, it's still cold-blooded murder. And that's what this game is based on. Sure, they'll probably make every enemy NPC into an insurgent, just so they don't have to deal with the cold, hard fact that a good number of the people killed were civilians.
I've seen the raw footage. I've seen the bodies burned. I've seen children's corpses mangled, the buildings crumbling. All because 19 terrorists flew a couple of planes into a building full of innocents. In Fallujah, the body count was about two thirds of the final body count of 9/11. Can we go home now? Can we stop the killing? Can we let it be and not seek to further glorify the actions of the American military, which is going to haunt the soldiers for the rest of their lives?
With a heavy heart,
FMZ
I feel a song coming on...
John was all present and Jim was all there
And Georgie was up for promotion
Not that the Army gave a bugger who they were
When confronting some heathen commotion!
The troops live under
the cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar.
Moving from place to place
Till they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skin is black or yellow
then quick as a wink
they chop them into beefsteak tartar!
Johnny found his whiskey too warm
And Jimmy found the weather too balmy
But Georgie took them both by the arm and said,
"Don't ever disappoint the Army!"
The troops live under
the cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar.
Moving from place to place
Till they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skin is black or yellow
then quick as a wink
they chop them into beefsteak tartar!
John is a write-off and Jimmy is dead
And Georgie was shot for looting
And young men's blood goes on being red
While the Army just goes on ahead... recruiting!
The troops live under
the cannon's thunder
From Sind to Cooch Behar.
Moving from place to place
Till they come face to face
With a different breed of fellow
Whose skin is black or yellow
then quick as a wink
they chop them into beefsteak tartar!
I think we need a My Lai game! That's it! Storm into the little hooches with your M16 blazing! Mother and children "Please mister Army Man NO!"
BLAM!
DIE YOU TERRORIST!
BLAMMO!
DIE YOU INSURGENT!
How about this: You get to Fly the "Enola Gay"! Woot!
There's a song for that one, too, but I've got Stanard Ridgeway in my brain right now.
Or here's another one: Be a Nazi bombardier and gunner on an He-111 or a Dornier bomber as you incinerate Coventry or sections of London! COOOL!
Bombardier zu Pilot - die Bomben sind gefallen! Essen Brennen Tod, Sie britischen Ratten! HEIL!
The saddest part is there are people in this world whose hearts and minds are so blinded by power and greed and cynicism and stupidity that this game will find a happy home in some collections.
Hey America - you wanna know why everyone hates you? Games like this, and the attitude behind it.
RS
Shoes for Industry. Shoes for the Dead.
No, fuck you, seriously.
yeah, this should be modded insightful alright. Good job, mods.
*sigh*
The internet, where common sense, etiquette, and respect for fellow posters goes right out the window.
You know what's funny? You wouldn't DARE say this directly to his face because you know you'd get your ass kicked. But on the internet, it's ok to be an asshole.
Oh, and make no bones about it, you are a class A 100% certified asshole.
You seem to have forgotten that a) you were in their country,--right, of his own free will he went into that country and started "blowing shit up". yes, he signed up for the military, but signing up does not mean you're looking to go kill someone, more of a sense of duty to your country. Which it sounds like to me you have absolutely no idea what that's like.
b) they were defending their stuff, More like using innocent civilians as cover while they continued their gorilla warfare tactics.
c) you went in there based on lies and fabrications, Uh, no. He went there because he was ordered to. Because to do otherwise would have resulted in his being placed in the brig for being Absent without leave.
c) you went in there as a glorified mercenary (very much like a Roman Centurion) in order to pave way for the rulers of your Empire to dictate to your victims your Imperial Way Of Life, which they must accept or die, including which of their stuff is to be stolen by your country's top thieves.
Oh, two "C"s...guess in your zeal to lay into the guy you couldn't hit the D key huh? Figures.
Yes, a glorified mercenary. That's the ticket! Wooh, you're on a roll now. Imperial way of life!? Here's a tip for you, you ignorant elitist prick, 99% of the citizens of the US don't give two flying fucks about you, your country, or any other country out there. However, since we're (unfortunately)) the last remaining "Super Power" at least for the time being, we're the ones getting screwed over time and time again by being backed into a corner by the governments of the world who DEMAND that the US lend support to whatever country is currently blowing themselves to hell and back. Do you think we wanted to go to fucking Somalia? Do you think we wanted to run around in the fucking sand in the Middle East? Do you HONESTLY think we're a nation of cowboys who get off on killing people and blowing shit up? I swear to God, people like you make me absolutely SICK. The US is damned if we do, damned if we don't. I am pretty certain that you're posting from a country that would have been speaking German right about now if it were not IN LARGE part to the heroic effort of the US servicemen and women who came to the aide of most of Europe.
It's easy to sit on the sidelines and blast into anyone who serves their country by going to war. I hope that some day you can see what war is like, maybe it'll wipe that smug stupid self-righteous shit you're spewing right off your face.
Sent from your iPad.
That's part of the interesting things about these new wars. As long as you fire on US troops, you're an enemy combatant--even if you're just a person defending his hometown.