Six Days in Fallujah if you missed the fun
By Eric Verlo
NOT MY TRIBE - 4/29/2009 3:47PM MDT - 3 Comments
As virtual-gaming distributer Konami reconsiders its release of SIX DAYS IN FALLUJAH, gaming pundits ask “Is it too early to role-play the Second Battle of Fallujah?” To non-US-vets it’s known simply as “Fallujah,” as one would denote Lidice or Srebrenica, by name alone. I don’t know, when will it be appropriate to satiate the nostalgic veteran gamer’s appetite to reenact war crime?
The obvious sarcastic question would be to ponder if White Phosphorous is among the player’s arsenal. Likewise, in “free fire zones” where US rules of engagement permitted the shooting of anything that moved, do you accumulate points for killing the civilians or running them over with your tank?
It would be interesting to see how Atomic Games, neighbor of Blackwater, reenacts the raid on the Fallujah hospital, or the strafing of refuges trying to cross the river when US forces had blocked the infamous Blue Bridge. Are key episodes actionable, or do you sit by as the game cycles through the script, where women and very young children were let to pass to safety, but men and boys were forced to back to the city to be dispatched automatically as combatants.
Is there a game version of My Lai? Perhaps the entire manslaughter safari of the Tiger Force Unit in Vietnam. My guess is there would be plenty of takers. How about the Russian destruction of Chechnya, or the assault on the Warsaw Ghetto? Why not?
Until it becomes okay to blend hypothetical roleplay with real human tragedy, gamers will have to be satisfied with fictional scenarios like Grand Theft Auto and Chainsaw Massacre. I wonder if Amazon already has preorders for customers salivating at the first chance to replay the Manson LaBianca-Tate escapades, Ted Bundy’s cross-country trek, or if they’re jonesing over Iraq, the Haditha tea party and barbecue.
Tags: Atrocities, Blackwater, Fallujah, Haditha, Iraq, Konami, Kuma-War, Lidice, Massacre, My Lai, Six Days in Fallujah, Srebrenica, Tiger Force Unit, Vietnam, Warsaw GhettoPosted: April 29th, 2009 under Headlines.
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Comment from Trent Calloway
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Time: March 2, 2010, 10:58 pm
Your obviously not a gamer or a forward thinking person by any degree.
Comment from Brother Jonah
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Time: March 3, 2010, 12:52 am
Yeah, looking forward to the near future when “gamers” who believe killing is a good thing become a significant both voting bloc and part of the enlistment pool for the Imperial Army is rather dismal. But could you really blame somebody for not wanting to look forward to that particular “game”?
One thing the Army said in conjunction with the similar Call to“DUTY”Modern Warfare 2 “game” where you’re awarded extra points for War Crimes, like targeting Children and other Civilians, is that most of the LOSER CHICKENHAWKS who play it won’t ever make it to active combat duty. Something about being both mentally and morally deficient. That and the obesity factor from sitting around their parents’ basements eating junk food and playing video “games” all day.
So, when you play MW2, do you use that modification of it, where the battlefield is “Skid Row” of an American city, and you get to blow up, burn, bludgeon, dismember, stab, shoot, impale and just in various nasty ways kill AMERICANS for the crime of being poor?
I just bet you’re “looking forward” to getting some of your best buds, if you can lure them out of the basements, and going down to “Skid Row” and lighting the place up.
Comment from Brother Jonah
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Time: March 4, 2010, 1:01 pm
Bumping for Relevance, not only with the disclosure of the Massive Birth disorders by the BBC, but also there was a Right Wing Freak who wrote to express his outrage about my pointing out that the Fallujah Four, who got their murderous arses hanged on the bridge, got exactly what they dish out.
That and he was promoting a book he’d written and that’s supposed to hit the bookshelves this week praising the Coward Ass Murdering Scum “Crusaders” at Blackwater as though they’re actually some kind of heroes.
I would almost guarantee that he’s going to comment here in order to plug his Propaganda Book.
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