Sony's Santa Monica Studio once worked on the contentious war game Six Days in Fallujah, which is currently in development at Highwire Games and set to be published by Victura. Six Days in Fallujah was revived earlier this year and aims to tell the story of the Second Battle of Fallujah from the point of view of soldiers and civilians who were present during the deadly conflict. 3v2e4x

An advocacy group is calling on Sony, Microsoft, and Valve to proactively ban Six Days in Fallujah for the historical FPS's alleged normalization of anti-Muslim hate. Although Six Days in Fallujah was ditched eleven years ago for its controversial depiction of the Iraq War, publisher Victura and developer Highwire Games have revitalized the project - along with the warranted backlash surrounding it. The trailer for Six Days in Fallujah arrived in March but did little to convince critics that the project is worth reviving. The title claims to be a realistic, documentarian depiction of the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004, many feel as though the game is offensive to everyone involved in the real-life event, especially the civilians who were killed in the fighting.

The tactical first-person shooter hellbent on depicting a real world conflict, Six Days in Fallujah, is still surprisingly going full-steam ahead. The game was initially canceled due to overwhelming backlash in 2009, but was recently revealed to still be in development. A new Six Days in Fallujah gameplay trailer only serves to reaffirm some notions that the game is entirely unnecessary.

Mired by controversy from its very inception more than a decade ago, the back-from-the-dead tactical shooter Six Days in Fallujah continues to demonstrate why many are taking issue with the game's take on the most infamous battle of the Second Iraq War. The recent reveal that the game will be largely procedurally generated is just the latest example of how Six Days in Fallujah's depiction of real-world events, particularly as it pertains to the Iraqi civilians who called Fallujah their home, leaves much to be desired when it comes to such serious subject matter.

Six Days in Fallujah has gotten a brand-new gameplay trailer and it's just doubling down on many fears regarding the controversial game. Six Days in Fallujah has been under fire ever since it was re-revealed earlier this year, to complete and total surprise, and the new gameplay trailer only continues to stoke the fire.

Controversial title Six Days in Fallujah is getting a fresh dose of criticism after an Iraq war vet and other industry developers spoke out against the game. The two parties questioned how sensitively the beleaguered title will manage to portray the infamous Second Battle of Fallujah on which it's based, a concern that is largely responsible for the game's eleven-year delay.

Highwire Games'Six Days in Fallujah and publisher Victura have flip-flopped on their previous claim that the game is "not trying to make a political commentary." Following its cancelation in 2009, Six Days in Fallujah was revived recently, and its reception has been anything but warm. Despite being based on one of the most politically charged events in modern American and Iraqi history, its publisher's previous statement that it's not a political game raised a number of eyebrows.

[Update: Six Days in Fallujah publisher Victura's CEO Peter Tamte now claims that the game is not "trying to make a political commentary" in a Polygon interview when asked about the game's real-world, historical subject matter, stating:

The ill-advised tactical shooter Six Days in Fallujah was thought long-dead after its abandonment by publisher Konami in 2009, and now the controversy has returned with developer Highwire Games (creator of the VR title Golem) taking the reins. The game's premise focuses on the real-life experiences of United States Marines involved in the Second Battle of Fallujah that took place in Iraq in late 2004. The military campaign in Fallujah has since become highly controversial, and makes a rather confusing setting for a video game. The original development goal was to create a war documentary in video game form, but Six Days in Fallujah seems like a thinly-veiled recruitment tool for the United States armed forces.

The name Six Days in Fallujah will likely always be mired in controversy in the gaming world. From its original incarnation in the late 2000s all the way to 2021's Six Days in Fallujah reboot announcement, the game's mission of depicting the Iraq War strikes at wounds that are still fresh for many of Americans. The modern pitch is a tactical first-person shooter that hopes to bring extraordinary "moments of truth" from the real-world Fallujah incident to light in a way that only video games can. However, this mission may clash with the original pitch for the game, which is just one of the reasons why many familiar with Six Days in Fallujah's history were so shocked to see it return after this long.