Konami Drops ‘Six Days in Fallujah’

Konami has canceled Six Days in Fallujah, a game based on the Iraq battle that was due next year.

“After seeing the reaction to the videogame in the United States and hearing opinions…We decided not to sell it,” said a Konami spokesperson. “We had intended to convey the reality of the battles to players so that they could feel what it was like to be there.”

Made by Atomic Games, Six Days in Fallujah was being developed with the help of Marines and other soldiers involved in the battle, which the military has said left at least 71 U.S. troops and 1,600 insurgents dead. The game was designed to give players a sense of what it was like to be soldiers in the conflict.

Six Days in Fallujah was scheduled to be released in 2010 for the Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and Windows PC.