While more than a decade since the initial cancellation of Six Days in Fallujah took place, developer Highwire Games and publisher Victura announced to revitalize the project and bring the experience to reality later in 2021 with the game’s undisclosed, scheduled release. The team comprised of former Battlefield, Call of Duty, and Halo developers alongside reference from veterans at the Battle of Fallujah, there is no room for doubt of the game missing the note to innovate.
However, to many view the game’s return to public eye brought users to question the morality of the decision. While those working on the project view it as a telling for those that experienced the Battle of Fallujah in a video game format, other witness it to be for the industry to excuse war crimes and other permissioned tragedies executed on behalf of the United States military.
Though the conversation continues, Highwire Games in a new feature with IGN offers the first glimpse of gameplay for Six Days in Fallujah. You can watch the footage in the video below:
As viewed in the video, Highwire Games wanted to encapture the same tension that the Marines experienced while in Fallujah that the game is portraying. And while the first experience is always fresh, Six Days in Fallujah goes further to implement generated experiences that changes the layout of the map when playing. “So, when we heard over and over from these guys, you never knew what to expect anytime you went in a house, anytime you opened a door, you could not anticipate what was going to happen on the other side,” Creative Director Jaime Griesemer tells.
“And in a traditional video game, that applies to the first time you play, right? You’re playing through a campaign mission, you kick open the door, it’s an ambush; there’s a guy over there, there’s a guy over there. And maybe you don’t succeed, maybe they get you, right? You revert back to a checkpoint, you come back to the same door. You already have a beat on the first guy before you even open the door, right?
“That is not the experience that these guys had, right? They got one shot. And how are we going to recreate that in a game? So we spent literally months bordering on years developing this technology that allows us to recreate entire sections of the city dynamically. So, not only do you not know what’s going to happen when you kick open the door, but me as a designer, I don’t know, right? I didn’t go in and play and set up the scripting and all those stuff, it’s generated.”
What are your thoughts on Six Days in Fallujah so far from the gameplay?
Six Days in Fallujah is scheduled to release sometime in 2021.
Source: IGN
