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Rumor: Six Days in Fallujah creative director leaves company

by Ben Gilbert on Aug 5th 2009 1:00PM

We knew things weren't exactly going well for Six Days in Fallujah developer Atomic Games when the game's publisher, Konami, dropped out of the equation. GamesIndustry.biz is reporting today that the game's creative director, Juan Benito, may also be out. In contacting both Atomic and Mr. Benito, neither would comment on the possibility.

Atomic Games president Peter Tamte has said multiple times that he would like his company to continue with development -- even going so far as to argue the game's case on Fox News. Thus far, however, Mr. Benito's departure remains a rumor. The fate of Six Days in Fallujah seems more uncertain than ever.

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Tags: atomic-games, fox-news, juan-benito, konami, peter-tamte, rumor, six-days-in-fallujah

Reader Comments (25)

If DSG was in this game, no one would have a problem with it.

Is she in the picture and I can't Where's Waldo her or something?

Yes, it would have been possible to make a serious, provocative video game about Fallujah.

No, that's not what this asshat was doing. From all of the published previews, he was making a generic shoot-em-up and trying to cash in on the tragic deaths of young soldiers and Iraqi civilians.

+1 on intelligence.

We have a million WW2 games so how is this any different from those games?

Please answer me that.

@Solace: WWII is over since 1945. The Iraq War is basically not.

Last time I checked, WW2 was a historical event, not something that's still going on.

Last time I checked, those "6 days in Fallujah" are a historical event. The "war" may be ongoing if you can even call it that anymore, but the battle of Fallujah is in the past.

Tell that to the victims families & other survivors still living with trama. Ithink they might see it differently..

That's fine, they don't have to buy it. No one is holding a gun to anyone's head telling them they have to play.

Ok, you have a point there. But the 6 days of Fallujah game (from what they've said in interviews) is supposed to follow the whole thing very very accurately, even going so far as using the actual names of soldiers of the squads they were in.

I don't know of any WWII games that did that. Sure there were some key characters that did exist in real life (General Amsel, for example). There are also alot of people still grieving about the tragic events that occured there, I think it's a bit tasteless to start exploiting this so shortly after said events.

That's just my two cents, though. We've been through this every time this game gets brought up.

I know and I love arguing about it. I don't know why but I do.

its not an exploit. Just because it was recent means nothing. After all, the fallen did die so that we could be free to speak our minds, whether it be to make a point or to tell a story.

The names are no big issue, as long as they got permission to use them.

copa watch this video, especially around the 1:45 mark. I really don't think this is your average shooter and would have done something new and different.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_ULc9YtWmM&NR=1

This sucks, it looked like it was going to be a really cool game!

I'm with you but I still have hope. Hey wasn't there a rumor about the next Medal of Honor game taking place in Afghanistan?

How many good/bad movies/TV have been made about ww2 and vietnam? How many have edited/altered historical fact and tossed in a good dose of fiction?

Make a video game about it and it's national news, game companies dropping a almost fully completed product as a result. Politcal groups making statements, it's on FOX News....

Games are starting to cost as much as movies to make, they have a rating system like movies do but are put under a far larger microscope then film.

Whats amazing is the same people who would get on TV and defend a movies right to be released, argue it and protest for freedom of speech are the ones that go after video games quite often.

I have 0 interest in playing this game, I just don't see what on earth everyone is so up in arms about. If a book came out about Fallujah that twisted with facts and such I don't think anyone focusing on this game would even know the book existed or care.

You can't interact with a book or a film. That's the controversy. This game puts an individual into a war that's recent by most standards. It gives players a chance to interact with a battle people are still suffering over. I assume that's how the developers or controversy makers see it.

That and people still think video games are for kids, it is not an accepted form of adult media like books and movies. Add in the interactive element and people lose their shit over it.

@ whylecat:

.....So what?

@ drew

soo you're retarded. That's the fact of the situation. Books/movies can only be watched/read. You can't interact to change the outcome. That's just the way it is buddy. Well, at least until someone invents that interactive comic book that Tom Hanks designed in BIG.

What I don't get about this whole SDiF thing is: Atomic Games is to 100% a subsidary of Destineer. And Destineer is a frigging publisher!

If they *really* want to make that game, why the frell doesn't Destineer publish it? They have published all of Atomic Game's titles, including the very similar Close Combat: First to Fight.

That is a little odd, I wonder why they don't do it themselves.

My question is we ahve all these movies about Iraq and the war and no one is protesting those, what makes this game so different than those movies, interaction, i dont see that as a plausible reason. Im sorry, release this game and then we can judge, until then, we are all speculating.

Probably be the greatest game ever but we wouldnt know because it wont get released.

Dude I'm with you 100%.

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