Marines' families slam Fallujah game
By North Asia correspondent Mark Willacy, wires
A Japanese video game maker has shelved plans to release a game based on a fierce battle between US marines and insurgents in the Iraqi city of Fallujah.
Families of soldiers killed in Iraq had condemned the release of the game as insensitive.
The game, titled Six Days in Fallujah, had been developed with the help of dozens of marines who had served in Iraq.
Billed as "survival horror", it recreated a savage battle with insurgents in Fallujah in 2004.
But some military veterans and families of marines killed in the fighting objected to the release of the video game, and now Japan's Atomic Games says it has cancelled plans to release it.
Japanese video game maker Konami has confirmed that it has spiked plans to publish the game.
"Konami is no longer publishing Six Days in Fallujah," a spokeswoman for the company said.
"Anything beyond that, I cannot comment."
- ABC/AFP
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