Fallujah dev's next in London soon

By Robert Purchese Published 20 October, 2010

Breach playable at HMV Trocadero.

Six Days in Fallujah developer Atomic has a new multiplayer game called Breach that you can play months ahead of release.

Pack a bag and head to the HMV Gamerbase in London's Trocadero, Piccadilly on 27th and 28th to have a go. Make sure you turn up between 10am and 6pm.

Breach - a PC and Xbox Live Arcade game - will be released in January 2011. It's a first-person shooter with a Destruction Toolbox - a mechanic that opens up tactical options other games never touch.

Atomic Games' Peter Tamte is "thrilled" and looking forward to showing the "next generation of multiplayer action games" to you.

Atomic earned infamy for Six Days in Fallujah, a third-person tactical shooter billed as an accurate portrayal of the Battle of Fallujah. This was one of the bloodiest exchanges of the Iraq War, and resulted in the deaths of 38 US troops and 1200 insurgents.

Atomic Games consulted with Real US Marines and, as of the April 2009 announcement, had Konami down as the publisher.

But things turned sour.

Families of loved ones killed during the Iraq War questioned the premise, and press surrounding Six Days in Fallujah was negative. Then, in a move that "caught [Atomic] by surprise, Konami pulled out. And despite hopeful statements given by Tamte since - stating there were "a lot of people" interested in picking-up the game - no new publisher ever came forward.

EA experienced a similar furore for the use of Taliban as a multiplayer faction in Afghanistan-inspired shooter Medal of Honor. An under-pressure EA eventually decided to change the Taliban's name to Opposing Force.

I ask you this: would Six Days in Fallujah have seen the light of day had Medal of Honor been released first?

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds. @Clert on Twitter.

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  • jstar #1 2 years ago

    lets be honest, if it had been any good some publisher would have picked it up, reskinned it and called it 6 Days on the planet Urblongtax or something shit like that.

  • FireMonkey #2 2 years ago

    "Destruction Toolbox - a mechanic that opens up tactical options other games never touch."

    Have they heard of Battlefield: Bad Company?
    Looking at the web site, I'd say it's nothing new: http://breachgame.com/destruction-toolbox/

  • CHACK #3 2 years ago

    I don't know why they didn't just re-skin this as an updated Full Spectrum Warrior type product, drop the Fallujah naming thing to keep retail happy enough to stock it, look for a lower MG on the deal and work with it that way since you can't expect publishers and distributors to come to the deal table if MG are sky high for a product thats ageing quickly.

    The only problem is, leave this another 6 months unsigned and the product tech and art will be deemed too old for anyone to be interested in.

  • rivuzu #4 2 years ago

    Damn you, being a Tuesday and Wednesday. I'm actually at the Troc on the 25th. Bloody typical.

  • Oh-Bollox #5 2 years ago

    "Real US Marines"

    As opposed to Fake US Marines?

  • gnrlstuart #6 2 years ago

    'i dont know no god damn mutha fuckin insurgents!'