Six Days in Fallujah - now available on Early Access

[Jaime Lannister]

https://www.sixdays.com

Spoiler

With a focus on urban combat, and all of the complications that fighting in close quarters and among civilians brings with it, the developers at Atomic Games have created a new game engine to power the action in Six Days. The hallmark of the new engine is destruction; everything from individual bricks to entire buildings will be candidates for destruction in the game, a fact that opens up entirely new avenues of strategy when taking to the streets in the hunt for insurgents. In one gameplay video, a Marine squad was stationed outside of a building that was filled with enemy insurgents. Instead of attacking through the front door and risking casualties, the Marines blew a hole in the side of the building, stormed inside, and forced the enemies out into the street, where another pack of Marines were waiting to pick them off.

http://www.gamespot.com/xbox360/action/ ... ks;title;3

i wanna be a terrorist death to america

 

[Fat Dragon]

Too soon.

 

[Dire Roach]

Although the focus in Six Days is on realism, the game is still making concessions to some video game staples, such as the regenerating health meter.

w00t

I bet they're still debating whether multiplayer deathmatch should be a marines vs. towelheads simulation or a sissy marines vs. marines training exercise.

 

[Trojan_generic]

With a focus on urban combat, and all of the complications that fighting in close quarters and among civilians brings with it, the developers at Atomic Games have created a new game engine to power the action in Six Days. The hallmark of the new engine is destruction; everything from individual bricks to entire buildings will be candidates for destruction in the game, a fact that opens up entirely new avenues of strategy when taking to the streets in the hunt for insurgents. In one gameplay video, a Marine squad was stationed outside of a building that was filled with enemy insurgents. Instead of attacking through the front door and risking casualties, the Marines blew a hole in the side of the building, stormed inside, and forced the enemies out into the street, where another pack of Marines were waiting to pick them off.

And all this with a blinking text in a huge font instructing the dumb console kiddie:

SHOOT THE WALL WITH RPG

GO INSIDE

SHOOT THE ENEMY

DON'T SHOOT THE MARINES!

 

[puppyonastik]

Hopefully it's highly modifiable and its community takes a crack at making a realism mod or two, turning it into an education tool, a la Europa Barbarorum for RTW. I think there is much to be gained by removing the "gamey" shit.

 

[Jason]

Considering this is being made by the Close Combat folks, I was hoping there would be a decent tactical sim underneath the "gamey shit", but apparently not.

Immediately it was apparent that Six Days is not aiming for a very realistic take on modern warfare. I never did imagine that Atomic would create a plodding, Operation Flashpoint-esque shooter in the sacrifice of action-packed combat. But considering the extensive marketing on the point of realism, I certainly didn't expect to see soldiers running out into the middle of the street during a firefight, taking a half-dozen bullets in the chest, and then regenerating their health safely behind cover. Not in a planned demonstration for press, at least.

In fact, from what Konami showed us, Six Days is far closer to Gears of War than America's Army. It has the same Gears D-pad weapon selection, the same style of cover system, and the same action-oriented gameplay.

In another clip, the player broke off from his squad, crouched up behind two insurgents who were firing on US soldiers, and took them out from a few feet away like some kind of renegade commando. I may be ignorant of this particular battle, but I've certainly never heard of any Army ninjas breaking off from their squads and capping insurgents solo. Maybe something like that has happened once or twice; either way, the videogamey nature of the moment seemed entirely out of place.

Later on, a soldier fired a rifle-mounted M203 grenade launcher into a building--then fired it again, and again, in a rapid-fire Rambo tactic that you'd only ever see with a controller in your hand.

 

[Trash]

Sounds like the same kind of utter fail that shit like Shell Shock turned out to be.

 

[doctor_kaz]

Sounds like an excellent idea that some marketing twat ruined once he saw Gears of War's sales.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Watch how Tyron and Rodriguez become best friends in this drama of white man's imperial ambitions.

 

[Dexter]

They're doing it again:
https://archive.md/7Iyzb https://archive.md/DBQ2H https://archive.md/NkUyD

One of the main reasons it was cancelled/Konami dropped it in the first place was because of the constant media attacks: https://archive.is/MZ86g

Outrage Over Konami's "Six Days in Fallujah"
April 7, 2009

It has been only a day since the news broke of Konami's plan to publish Six Days in Fallujah, but the game is already sparking anger as well as calls for a ban.

To be sure, releasing a video game based on one of the bloodiest and most controversial actions of the Iraq War is a public relations gamble for Konami and developer Atomic Games - especially since the war is still going on.

Early negative reactions to Six Days in Fallujah have been both sharp and diverse, with a decorated British Army officer and a representative of a U.K. peace group both expressing outrage over the game.

The U.K.'s Daily Mail reports complaints about Six Days in Fallujah by the father of a Royal Marine who died in the Iraq War. Reg Keys, whose son Thomas was killed in 2003, said:

Considering the enormous loss of life in the Iraq War, glorifying it in a video game demonstrates very poor judgement and bad taste... These horrific events should be confined to the annals of history, not trivialised and rendered for thrill-seekers to play out...

It's entirely possible that Muslim families will buy the game, and for them it may prove particularly harrowing. Even worse, it could end up in the hands of a fanatical young Muslim and incite him to consider some form of retaliation or retribution...

I will be calling for this game to be banned, if not worldwide then certainly in the UK.

Meanwhile, former colonel Tim Collins OBE, a decorated Iraq War veteran, was equally aghast:

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. It's particularly insensitive given what happened in Fallujah, and I will certainly oppose the release of this game.

Tech Radar offers withering comments from Tansy Hoskins of Stop The War Coalition, a U.K. peace group:

The massacre carried out by American and British forces in Fallujah in 2004 is amongst the worst of the war crimes carried out in an illegal and immoral war. It is estimated that up to 1,000 civilians died in the bombardment and house to house raids...

The American led assault on Fallujah pretended there were no civilians left in the city [but] over 50,000 people remained in their homes and took the brunt of the violence and chemical weapons...

To make a game out of a war crime and to capitalise on the death and injury of thousands is sick... The massacre in Fallujah should be remembered with shame and horror not glamorised and glossed over for entertainment.

https://www.macworld.com/article/1140647/fallujah.html

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If it upsets the internet hall monitors I'll buy a copy then.

 

[thesecret1]

Can you play as an insurgent? Killing goatfucker civvies in flip flops as a fully geared US marine sounds too easy, I want the challenge mode where you kill zogbots with a rusty AK while in your pajamas

 

[Nutria]

Imagine being British and having the guts to say that anybody else had invaded that country and committed war crimes for no reason. This is like the 200th country that they invaded because they either wanted to steal shit or wanted to keep the French out and millions of people were killed by them in the process.

 

[thesecret1]

Imagine being British and having the guts to say that anybody else had invaded that country and committed war crimes for no reason. This is like the 200th country that they invaded because they either wanted to steal shit or wanted to keep the French out and millions of people were killed by them in the process.

Brits gave Iraq independence from Ottomans during WW1 tho.

 

[Hace El Oso]

Imagine being British and having the guts to say that anybody else had invaded that country and committed war crimes for no reason. This is like the 200th country that they invaded because they either wanted to steal shit or wanted to keep the French out and millions of people were killed by them in the process.

Brits gave Iraq independence from Ottomans during WW1 tho.

And naturally proceeded to occupy the country themselves.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

Imagine being British and having the guts to say that anybody else had invaded that country and committed war crimes for no reason. This is like the 200th country that they invaded because they either wanted to steal shit or wanted to keep the French out and millions of people were killed by them in the process.

Brits gave Iraq independence from Ottomans during WW1 tho.

Brits slicing the middle east up at the end of WW1 is the primary reason so much is wrong there now.

 

[ADL]

Holy shit

 

[Dexter]

https://archive.md/bMD2n https://archive.md/1yvap

Also check out: https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/rami-ismail-melts-down-over-six-days-in-fallujah.137258/

 

[rusty_shackleford]

800 civilians for 4 americans is a shit trade, 1 us citizen is worth more than iraq.

 

[Gregz]

Imagine being British and having the guts to say that anybody else had invaded that country and committed war crimes for no reason. This is like the 200th country that they invaded because they either wanted to steal shit or wanted to keep the French out and millions of people were killed by them in the process.

Brits gave Iraq independence from Ottomans during WW1 tho.

Brits slicing the middle east up at the end of WW1 is the primary reason so much is wrong there now.

Smaller countries are easier to destabilize and/or topple for their oil.

 

[orcinator]

Hopefully it has some more modern features like perk trees and glory kills.

 

[Xelocix]

Imagine being British and having the guts to say that anybody else had invaded that country and committed war crimes for no reason. This is like the 200th country that they invaded because they either wanted to steal shit or wanted to keep the French out and millions of people were killed by them in the process.

Imagine being Br*tish period.

 

[Curratum]

Noname dev (but Destiny and Halo "VETERANS" guys, when has this ever gone bad??), noname publisher, zero actual gameplay shown. What could possibly go wrong?

 

[Lambach]

Watch how Tyron and Rodriguez become best friends in this drama of (((white))) man's imperial ambitions.

Fix't.

 

[Wirdschowerdn]

Noname dev (but Destiny and Halo "VETERANS" guys, when has this ever gone bad??), noname publisher, zero actual gameplay shown. What could possibly go wrong?

As opposed to seasoned dev, famous publisher? Because that never went wrong before!