14 DAY TRIAL // After Konami, as the publisher, and Atomic Games, as the developer, announced that they planned to create and release a videogame called Six Days in Fallujah, a great deal of outrage was expressed, coming both from anti war coalitions and from people who served with the United States Army in Iraq.
Their main complaint was that a videogame based on the fighting in the city would desecrate the memory of those who died there while also tackling an issue that needs time to slip out of the conscience of the world.
But it seems that not everybody is against Six Days in Fallujah. G4TV has talked to some people who currently fight with the military and they seem to believe that the game could be an interesting experience if it manages to capture and to translate the essence of warfare.
Sergeant Casey J. McGeorge, who has been in Iraq for 36 months, stated that “As a combat veteran and as a gamer, I have no problem whatsoever with the game. As long as it's made as realistically as possible, I believe that this could be a good thing for both combat veterans and for the war in general.”
Now, the only question is whether Atomic Games is preparing to create a very run of the mill military shooter or if it is really aiming for realism above all. The president of the company, Peter Tamte, has said that, based on the work done for the military, he hopes that the videogame would manage to replicate the situations in which Marines found themselves in Fallujah.
Atomic Games has not said when players are able to get their hands on the videogame in order to see how it holds up. Let's hope that it will ask some gamers who are also soldiers to play it and report back with their experiences.