The Wall Street Journal<\/a> and discussed the game and what they are aiming to achieve with it.<\/p>\n“Six Days in Fallujah” is currently set for a 2010 release and aims to accurately recreate the experiences of the marines that took place in the operation just six years ago.<\/p>\n
Atomic is calling “Six Days in Fallujah” more than a game, and is aiming to make something that is more in line with a documentary. To help create this effect players will be given an over the shoulder view of the action, supposedly recreating the view of a journalist in tow.<\/p>\n
Atomic has stated that “Six Days in Fallujah” follows events as told by the marines that were involved in the operation. It will replicate the actual daily experiences of the soldiers, and Atomic worked with more than 35 soldiers in order to recreate the operation accurately. Thousands of photographs, along with classified satellite imagery, were used in order to ensure a faithful recreation of the location in which the game takes place.<\/p>\n
Marine Sergeant Eddie Garcia worked closely with Atomic, and was able to provide a detailed diarized account of the events that took place. The developers have therefore been able to recreate events in great detail, down to the exact time which Garcia launched a particular illumination flair during a battle for example.<\/p>\n
Apart from aiming to faithfully recapture the events that span the six day long operation, Atomic Games is working on a realistic game engine that allows for accurate and realistic terrain damage. This was apparently necessary in order to reflect many of the tactics employed by the marines during the Iraqi campaign. Cover will deteriorate under fire, and likewise, players will be able to expose hidden enemies by chipping away at walls with machine gun fire. Instead of clearing a building the old fashioned way with dangerous close combat maneuvering, marines in Iraq often made use of bulldozers to simply flatten them, a tactic which Atomic is hoping to recreate.<\/p>\n
Gamers will also have to make split second decisions in “Six Days in Fallujah”, many of which will affect the outcome of various operations. For example, there is an opening sequence which involves an enemy entering a room unarmed, the player must then decide if the enemy qualifies as a hostile target and act accordingly. Obviously in a title such as Call of Duty One would not think twice about pulling the trigger, but Atomic is aiming to create something altogether more serious and in a way more mature.<\/p>\n
No doubt this game will have its detractors, many of whom will say it is in bad taste, or it is too soon for a game based on this war.<\/p>\n
Is it too soon, or is this no different to video game recreations of alternative historical conflicts? Have your say<\/a> on the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Konami is to release \u201cSix days in Fallujah\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3765\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}