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Game Feature: Six Days in Fallujah, One Small Problem
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-04-15 17:23:09 266
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By Nick Breckon @ ShackNews
Like many gamers, I am not easily offended by videogames.
Whenever a morally objectionable gaming issue is raised in the media, or on a forum, the crusty Old-Man Gamer in my head pipes up. He's hardcore, for his age.
"Listen here, son. I was blowing up cops in strip clubs when I was ten years old!" he says. "I've been killing Nazis since I was old enough to crawl! In my day, we didn't have one of those newfangled Hot Latte Machiatto mods--all we needed was a few pixels and a little imagination. And I don't want to hear a thing about warfare, son. Hell, I invaded Germany wearing the skin of a Teletubby!"
So it was very strange to sit there on a Thursday night, one hand clasped around a Norwegian bottle of spring water, the other clenched tight in a fist around an hors d'oeuvres napkin, as Konami's Six Days in Fallujah shocked and awed my moral center. This was new.
Read on...
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