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Six Days in Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah is an upcoming tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Highwire Games and published by Victura. Set in the Second Battle of Fallujah of the Iraq War over the span of six days in November 2004, the game follows the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) as they fight the Iraqi insurgency in the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Its campaign follows two perspectives: a squad of Marines from 3/1 deployed to battle the insurgents, and an Iraqi family attempting to escape the city in the midst of the battle.
Originally developed by Atomic Games, Six Days was announced in 2009, with a release slated for 2010, published by Konami; however, controversy surrounding the game's appropriateness and handling of its contentious and then-very-recent subject matter led to Konami departing the project, and Atomic Games' bankruptcy in 2011 left the game on hold indefinitely. Around 2016, Victura and Highwire began developing a revived version of the game, which was announced in February 2021. After several delays, Six Days in Fallujah was released in early access on Microsoft Windows on June 22, 2023. The console version is planned to be released late 2026 or early 2027 with the 1.0 update.
Missions typically begin with a briefing (often incorporating archival footage and interviews) and then play out in semi-open urban zones where players must clear buildings, locate objectives (such as enemy strongholds or supply caches), and extract or hold territory. Gameplay demands slow, deliberate movement, room-clearing tactics, team coordination, and awareness of enemy concealment. While firefights occur, the primary focus is on tension, surprise, and the unpredictability of urban combat as opposed to corridor-based run-and-gun.
Players assume control of squad member in U.S. Marine fireteams (and in future updates, Iraqi civilian or military perspectives) as they navigate the urban combat environment of Fallujah. The game currently offers two primary mission types: story missions and procedural missions. According to the developers, the story missions recreate key moments from the real battle and function also as tutorials for the squad-control systems. Procedural missions, by contrast, generate urban maps and enemy placements algorithmically to maximize variability and playability, however, players are unable to reliably memorize layouts. In early access, players can play solo (accompanied by AI teammates) or in co-op with up to four real players. The solo mode uses an AI fireteam system which allows issuing tactics manually. One of the game's signature mechanics is its Procedural Architecture system. Instead of fixed, static levels, buildings, interiors and street layouts are reshuffled each time a mission begins.
A hallmark of the game is its emphasis on authentic squad tactics. The player can issue commands to team members such as suppressing fire, breaching doors, or holding positions. With the “Go! Command” system, the player can select behaviors for the fireteam with minimal menu interaction. Enemy AI is designed to emulate insurgent tactics: flanking, ambushing, hiding inside civilian structures, and using urban cover to create uncertainty.
The game emphasizes immersive sensory elements: transitions from bright outdoors to dark interiors, echoing footsteps inside buildings, distant explosions, and the ambient noise of urban warfare. According to previews, the absence of a mini-map for some modes further heightens spatial awareness and tension. And graphical enhancements, such as ray-traced lighting via RTX Global Illumination, are used to bolster the realism of the environment, with smoke, dust and dynamic lighting effects presented as part of the combat conditions.
According to Atomic Games president Peter Tamte, Six Days was conceived in the early 2000s, when one of their divisions was tasked with developing military simulation programs for the U.S. Marine Corps, and some Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines were assigned to assist as technical advisors. However, shortly into development, 3/1 was deployed to Iraq and participated in the Second Battle of Fallujah. The inspiration for the game came from a U.S. Marine who participated in the battle and suggested a video game based on it. Tamte later stated that "When they came back from Fallujah, they asked us to create a video game about their experiences there, and it seemed like the right thing to do."
Tamte stated that the goal of Six Days from the start was to create the most realistic military shooter possible, and that "Ultimately, all of us are curious about what it would really be like to be in a war. I've been playing military shooters for ages, and at a certain point when I'm playing the game, I know it's fake. You can tell a bunch of guys sat in a room and designed it. That's always bothered me." He further elaborated that adapting the battle into a video game as opposed to a different form of media came from how "[t]here are things that you can do in video games that you cannot do in other forms of media. And a lot of that has to do with presenting players with the dilemmas that the Marines saw in Fallujah and then giving them the choice of how to handle that dilemma. And I think at that point, you know—when you watch a movie, you see the decisions that somebody else made. But when you make a decision yourself, then you get a much deeper level of understanding."
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Six Days in Fallujah
Six Days in Fallujah is an upcoming tactical first-person shooter video game developed by Highwire Games and published by Victura. Set in the Second Battle of Fallujah of the Iraq War over the span of six days in November 2004, the game follows the United States Marine Corps' 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines (3/1) as they fight the Iraqi insurgency in the city of Fallujah, Iraq. Its campaign follows two perspectives: a squad of Marines from 3/1 deployed to battle the insurgents, and an Iraqi family attempting to escape the city in the midst of the battle.
Originally developed by Atomic Games, Six Days was announced in 2009, with a release slated for 2010, published by Konami; however, controversy surrounding the game's appropriateness and handling of its contentious and then-very-recent subject matter led to Konami departing the project, and Atomic Games' bankruptcy in 2011 left the game on hold indefinitely. Around 2016, Victura and Highwire began developing a revived version of the game, which was announced in February 2021. After several delays, Six Days in Fallujah was released in early access on Microsoft Windows on June 22, 2023. The console version is planned to be released late 2026 or early 2027 with the 1.0 update.
Missions typically begin with a briefing (often incorporating archival footage and interviews) and then play out in semi-open urban zones where players must clear buildings, locate objectives (such as enemy strongholds or supply caches), and extract or hold territory. Gameplay demands slow, deliberate movement, room-clearing tactics, team coordination, and awareness of enemy concealment. While firefights occur, the primary focus is on tension, surprise, and the unpredictability of urban combat as opposed to corridor-based run-and-gun.
Players assume control of squad member in U.S. Marine fireteams (and in future updates, Iraqi civilian or military perspectives) as they navigate the urban combat environment of Fallujah. The game currently offers two primary mission types: story missions and procedural missions. According to the developers, the story missions recreate key moments from the real battle and function also as tutorials for the squad-control systems. Procedural missions, by contrast, generate urban maps and enemy placements algorithmically to maximize variability and playability, however, players are unable to reliably memorize layouts. In early access, players can play solo (accompanied by AI teammates) or in co-op with up to four real players. The solo mode uses an AI fireteam system which allows issuing tactics manually. One of the game's signature mechanics is its Procedural Architecture system. Instead of fixed, static levels, buildings, interiors and street layouts are reshuffled each time a mission begins.
A hallmark of the game is its emphasis on authentic squad tactics. The player can issue commands to team members such as suppressing fire, breaching doors, or holding positions. With the “Go! Command” system, the player can select behaviors for the fireteam with minimal menu interaction. Enemy AI is designed to emulate insurgent tactics: flanking, ambushing, hiding inside civilian structures, and using urban cover to create uncertainty.
The game emphasizes immersive sensory elements: transitions from bright outdoors to dark interiors, echoing footsteps inside buildings, distant explosions, and the ambient noise of urban warfare. According to previews, the absence of a mini-map for some modes further heightens spatial awareness and tension. And graphical enhancements, such as ray-traced lighting via RTX Global Illumination, are used to bolster the realism of the environment, with smoke, dust and dynamic lighting effects presented as part of the combat conditions.
According to Atomic Games president Peter Tamte, Six Days was conceived in the early 2000s, when one of their divisions was tasked with developing military simulation programs for the U.S. Marine Corps, and some Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines were assigned to assist as technical advisors. However, shortly into development, 3/1 was deployed to Iraq and participated in the Second Battle of Fallujah. The inspiration for the game came from a U.S. Marine who participated in the battle and suggested a video game based on it. Tamte later stated that "When they came back from Fallujah, they asked us to create a video game about their experiences there, and it seemed like the right thing to do."
Tamte stated that the goal of Six Days from the start was to create the most realistic military shooter possible, and that "Ultimately, all of us are curious about what it would really be like to be in a war. I've been playing military shooters for ages, and at a certain point when I'm playing the game, I know it's fake. You can tell a bunch of guys sat in a room and designed it. That's always bothered me." He further elaborated that adapting the battle into a video game as opposed to a different form of media came from how "[t]here are things that you can do in video games that you cannot do in other forms of media. And a lot of that has to do with presenting players with the dilemmas that the Marines saw in Fallujah and then giving them the choice of how to handle that dilemma. And I think at that point, you know—when you watch a movie, you see the decisions that somebody else made. But when you make a decision yourself, then you get a much deeper level of understanding."
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