Konami has announced they’re working with American developer Atomic Games to bring the 2004 battle for the Iraqi city of Fallujah to gamepads.
‘Six Days in Fallujah’ is being released next year and hopes to give gamers ”insight” into the historical battle that saw 38 US soldiers and over 1,200 insurgents killed.
”Video games can communicate the intensity and the gravity of war to an audience who wouldn’t necessarily be watching the History Channel or reading about this in the classroom,” said Mike Ergo, a 26 year-old former marine who’s now at the University of California at Berkeley.
”For us, the challenge was how do you present the horrors of war in a game that is also entertaining, but also gives people insight into a historical situation in a way that only a video game can provide?” says Atomic Games President Peter Tamte.
”Our goal is to give people that insight, of what it’s like to be a Marine during that event, what it’s like to be a civilian in the city and what it’s like to be an insurgent.”
Exactly what nudged Konami into undertaking such a hot potato?
”What interested us were the soldiers’ stories,” said Anthony Crouts, Konami’s vice president of marketing. ”Some of these soldiers came right out of high school. They went from boys to men in the span of two weeks.”
Can a videogame, or even a movie or book for that matter, ever do justice to the horrors of war?
Source: VG247
