Six Days in Fallujah Could Be First In a Series

[MortisLegio]

Id buy it
I think this is a good way to honor our troops

 

[AceDiamond]

Its a battle thats fairly recent compared to other battles. Modern Video games have fictional battles. There are still people in the military today who fought at Fallujah.

I have no problems with it, but, some people think its still too soon.

I can sort of understand that, but the controversy seems to be focused on its portrayal of American soldiers, which is odd, because they helped develop it.

Because in this country (this country being America) it's apparently wrong to think of our soldiers as anything other than perfect godlike beings instead of you know, humans with flaws like anybody else.

I'm sure that's not entirely the reason this game was getting a lot of controversy but at the same time it's what I'd gravitate towards. The way the media played up the herosim of Jessica Lynch (who herself even said they got a lot of things wrong about what happened when she was captured) comes to mind as how the American media tends to handle things unless the war gets Veitnam-levels of unpopular.

 

[Marine Mike]

It looks interesting, certainly, but looking at the early videos, I was quite underwhelmed. Far from being a realistic war shooter, it looked more like Freedom Fighters with a liberal dose of Gears Of War. However, it's entirely possible that all that is dealt with and it could turn out to be a good game.

The whole controversy about it is bizarre though. How can it possibly be disrespectful if it was designed with the consent and assistance of marines who partook in the battle? I don't understand it. Surely, by that logic, every war game ever made is disrespectful too?

Its a battle thats fairly recent compared to other battles. Modern Video games have fictional battles. There are still people in the military today who fought at Fallujah.

I have no problems with it, but, some people think its still too soon.

*Sigh*
There is a funny story about this. February of 2004 my unit was on what we call "ACM" meaning that we were prepared to be rapid-deployed with our unit being under-way in less than an hour. A pesky coup comes up in Port-au-Prince, Haiti and we get shipped over there, and very shortly after that there is an urgent call for our unit to be deployed to participate in the battle for Fallujah... only we were no longer on base ready to deploy since we had already been sent to Haiti. So what ends up happening is another battalion (1st Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, my unit was 3rd Battalion) in our regiment is sent over there to make history as we rage at the fact that our participation in Haiti only ever got about one mention on CNN (In the bottom scrolling text banner of all things). Our unit ended up relieving 1/8 and spending the next 7 months patrolling post-battle Fallujah and its outlying villages. Just think, if that Haiti fiasco didn't happen then I'd have a video game about me.

 

[Acidwell]

I believe counter-strike tried this with horrible failure.

What, Northern Ireland? Was that that terrible Counter Strike Zero game?

I mean do it well.

Yeah it was fairly funny though, but a properly done one would be interesting.

 

[Red Right Hand]

I don't understand what all the fuss is about? Surely if it's unacceptable to do a war game set in Iraq, then it's not ok to do one set in WW2? Yet I recall there being no controversy about that. If the soldiers themselves are collaborating then there is surely no problem.

EDIT: Also, as someone has already mentioned, there have been movies about the war in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Vietnam, where soldiers from the conflicts still survive to this day.

 

[DSK-]

I remember there was a big stink about MW2's 'controversial' scene/level and actually thought it was rather tame. Can this game be any worse than something like that? I'm not sure as its really down to the individual.

However if servicemen actually approached the developers, then I think their story should be told.