Six Days in Fallujah game already sparking protests in UK

Posted Apr 7th 2009 5:00PM by John Callaham
Filed under: Biz, Culture, Action

We had a feeling that Monday's announcement of the Iraq War-based third person shooter Six Days in Fallujah would spark some kind of protests over its content and we were right. Just a day after the game was revealed from developer Atomic Games and publisher Konami some vicious comments about the game have been registered in UK based media outlets.

The Daily Mail web site quotes Reg Keys, who had a son who was killed in Iraq in 2003 while he was a Royal Marine. Keys said the decision to make such a game "demonstrates very poor judgement and bad taste." The article also quotes Tim Collins OBE, who served in the 1st Battalion Royal Irish Regiments during the war. Collins states, "It's much too soon to start making video games about a war that's still going on, and an extremely flippant response to one of the most important events in modern history."

The Tech Radar web site also has quotes from Tansy E Hoskins, a spokesperson for the anti-war group Stop The War Coalition. Hoskins states, "To make a game out of a war crime and to capitalise on the death and injury of thousands is sick."

What these protesters might not know is that the Fallujah conflict has already been depicted via the free episodic game Kuma War. Indeed the battle is one of many instances in the Iraq War that was recreated in the game series (which is apparently no longer offering new episodes to download).
[Via Game Politics]

Gallery: Six Days in Fallujah

Tags: atomic-games, konami, six-days-in-fallujah

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

There are already plenty of games like the to be fair just they have a title that has cleverly avoided any controversy like this e.g

Battlefield 2
Insurgency
and im sure there are alot morePosted at 5:26PM on Apr 7th 2009 by ToonarmY

When I saw the name, I thought, "You've gotta be kidding me!"

I fought in the Battle of Fallujah back in 2004. Not only is it too soon to make a game based on a controversial war that is technically still raging, but to attempt to turn a war people that people are still dieing in, into a form of entertainment and profit goes to show how ignorant, classless, and pathetic people can be.

Continue to work on this flop of a game and change the f'n name! Your publicity stunt = fail.Posted at 7:41PM on Apr 7th 2009 by Mcpwnage

If you fought during PF, then you wouldn't feel that way. Your lies aren't appreciated by me and my fellow Marines. It's either that or your some pog that didn't really even do anything during it.

-YOUR- publicity stunt = Even more fail.Posted at 2:36AM on Apr 8th 2009 by lulz

Why are people honestly freaking out about this? there are so many games based on stuff like this but for some reason this one gets all the flames? Whats so evil and classless about making a game on a real event? too soon? thats bollocks if you ask me. YOU don't have to play the game if you don't want to. But don't stop every one else from experiencing the game just because you fought in the battle well boo ho. I don't see all the vets of all the other wars crying about games being made of the battles they fought in. I personally have a mate of mine who fought in this battle and he lost one of his friends in the fight. Yet he still wants to play this game out of curiosity. The people complaining about this need to get over themselvesPosted at 3:53AM on Apr 19th 2009 by Alk