We got games like SOCOM, Conflict, lots of Tom Clancy stuff, even Battlefield dipped its toes into modern warfare. ![]() ![]() While war games existed before that tragedy – Novalogic’s Delta Force franchise was modestly popular around the late 1990s – they ballooned to being rather ubiquitous once the War on Terror started. Seeing this made me think a lot about the glut of military games made in a post-9/11 world. Sure looks generic until you find out the game’s backstory. A promotional screenshot from the original 2009 version of Six Days in Fallujah. It will likely come out to poor reception, if it actually comes out this time. So much so that the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) asked for major publishers to drop support for the game. With some of the original development team handling development, it naturally got a lot of backlash now just as it did back in 2009: by glorifying a specific military conflict as a good thing, and feeding into middle eastern stereotypes of them being nothing but terrorists. ![]() In 2021, it was announced that the previously canceled game Six Days in Fallujah was being brought back. (content warning: Depictions of violence and war within.)
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