Military families angry over Fallujah videogame
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Peter Tamte was months away from completing his dream project—turning the largest urban battle of the Iraq War into a videogame—when it all seemed to fall apart. The 75 employees of one of his companies, Atomic Games, had worked on the endeavor for nearly four years. They'd toiled to make Six Days in Fallujah as realistic as possible, weaving in real war footage and interviews with Marines who had fought there. But now relatives of dead Marines were angry, and the game's distributor and partial underwriter had pulled out of Tamte's project. On May 26, he got on the phone to Tracy Miller, whose son was killed by a sniper in Fallujah, and tried to win her over by arguing that the game honors the Marines. Miller listened politely, but remained skeptical. "By making it something people play for fun, they are trivializing the battle," she told NEWSWEEK.
Does the game honor those who have served or simply "trivializing the battle"?
Does the game honor those who have served or simply "trivializing the battle"?
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artemis6
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It is much worse then trivializing . It is Glorifying war . Detaching it from reality for impressionable young people who feel invincible . Preparation to sacrifice another generation to the God of death for profit . Look into the truth of it . Do not be so fearful as to go into denial .
- 2 years ago
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artemis6
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dainjdc
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This is a very hard topic to address. They made call of duty modern warfare but that game plays out on a bigger scale than just 6 days in fallujah. I don't know but I definitely know some of my friends that are out of the military and some that fought in fallujah would've definitely bought this game.
- 2 years ago
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dainjdc
