You can tell a bunch of guys sat in a room and designed it. “I’ve been playing military shooters for ages,” Tamte said in an interview with GamePro, “and at a certain point when I’m playing the game, I know it’s fake. Tamte’s rationale for taking the challenge on was that “ultimately, all of us are curious about what it would really be like to be in a war.” According to Tamte, Garcia had told him stories from the warzone and then asked if Atomic Games would be able to create a game to tell his stories. The ensuing battle resulted in more than 2,000 deaths heartbreakingly, the Red Cross estimated that 800 of those casualties were civilians.Ītomic Games founder and president Peter Tamte told Variety that the idea to turn the Second Battle of Fallujah into a video game came from Eddie Garcia, “a Marine sergeant who had been med-evaced out of Fallujah during the battle” and had previously worked with Tamte on training software for the U.S. Anticipating the attack, however, the insurgents had booby-trapped much of the city’s infrastructure – including homes and schools – with explosives and weapon emplacements. Arguably the most horrific of the Iraq War’s many conflicts, the Second Battle of Fallujah was a joint operation between the American, Iraqi and United Kingdom governments that saw the coalition attempting to occupy the city of Fallujah and eliminate a rapidly growing insurgent presence. It was back in 2009 that Atomic Games announced Six Days In Fallujah, a tactical shooter based on the Second Battle of Fallujah that took place between November and December 2004. So, let’s jump in our time machines, travel 12 years into gaming’s storied past and take a deep dive into Six Days In Fallujah… Damn that makes me feel old. Before I explore that nagging question, I thought it’d be important to go back and look at the game’s original announcement and the events the game is based on. With that trailer now out in the wild, and Highwire Games’ commitment to finishing and releasing the game, I can’t help but wonder if the studio is going to be able to develop a game based on a real-world conflict without glorifying or justifying the violence and bloodshed that occurred during the Second Battle of Fallujah. It’s one of the most controversial shooters in recent memory, and I feel pretty confident in saying that nobody would have thought it was coming back after original developer Atomic Games went bankrupt in 2011… yet here we are, a decade later, with a new trailer from a new team taking another chance on a game based on one of the most brutal military engagements in recent history.
Six Days in Fallujah’s re-announcement this past February came as a shock to pretty much everyone.
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