14 DAY TRIAL // The gaming industry has been on high alert in the last few days, ever since Konami announced that it would release a game based on the battles in Iraq, more specifically on the Operation Phantom Fury, which was the second battle the US Marines fought in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
The game, entitled Six Days in Fallujah, aims at providing an unbiased look at just what happened during those firefights. It will be a survival horror title, but not the kind where the player battles supernatural beings, but where he faces insurmountable odds and enemies who will use just about anything to defeat him.
We've already heard the developers from Atomic Games talk about how the game will provide the most realistic war experience, but now, the president of the development studio, Peter Tamte, reveals that the researchers talked with all the sides involved in that conflict, including the Islamic insurgents that fought against the US Marines.
“It's important for us to say that there are actually three communities that are very affected by the battle for Fallujah,” Tamte says. “Certainly the Marines, certainly the Iraqi civilians within Fallujah, and the insurgents as well. We are actually getting contributions from all three of those communities so that we can get the kind of insight we're trying to get.”
While Tamte doesn't reveal just what contributions the Insurgents brought, he does say that they were “involved in the creation of the game,” and that people “would just like this to be a recreation and we can't recreate Operation Phantom Fury without getting the perspectives of all the people who were involved.”
We already saw yesterday the reactions of a few soldiers regarding the video game, who believed that as long as it would provide a realistic experience, it would certainly help reveal to others just what the Marines went through in Fallujah.
Hopefully, the team at Atomic Games will do a great job with this game and will deliver all that it has promised us. The title still doesn't have a release date, but it will hit the PC, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 platforms in 2010 most probably.