Europe Too Sensitive for Six Days in Fallujah?

According to German and Dutch news sites GamePro.de and De Telegraf, Konami is undecided about releasing Six Day in Fallujah in Europe.

The Tactical Shooter who is recreating one of the bloodiest battles of the last Iraq war, has attracted a lot of controversy in the days after it’s announcement. You know, because it’s a-okay for books and movies to pick the material as a central theme, but not for a game.

Ex-SAS operative Andy McNab said in an TechRadar interview:

In America a 90-year-old and a 12-year-old will know what happened at Fallujah. It’s on the TV, there are books about it. The game is a natural extension to that; it is folklore. The only difference being that it is presented in a different medium,

So apparently, Europeans can’t handle the game because we don’t have the same connection as Americans to it. That might even be true. But at the end of the day, it will still be only a game.

Konami tries to sell this as a game without patriotism, where you see what really happened from the eyes of a soldier. If they can pull that off, I would applaud them. But the thing is, a game like that would be really unsettling. It would have to go away from the clean battlefields of Call of Duty and depict everything from accidental friendly fire to gunning down innocent civilians. I really doubt that they will go that far (especially if the US government is involved in the project). And if they did, they would get seriously more flak from all sides. Because as we all know, games are only for kids.

via Eurogamer