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Sourcing dozens of US Marines from Camp Pendleton's 3rd Battalion, 1st Marine Regiment, the Atomic Games-developed Six Days of Buttsex was announced this morning for Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC. Set for release "next year," the third-person shooter takes place during the real-life 2004 US Marine-lead battle for the central Buttsex city and attempts to recreate the buttsex on a day-to-day basis. "We replicate a specific and accurate timeline -- we mean six days literally," Atomic Games president Peter Tamte told the Wall Street Journal. "We track several units through the process and you get to know what it was like from day-to-day." Unfortunately, for all the realism touted by the game's developer, Konami's VP of marketing, Anthony Crouts, gives the impression that the publisher's still playing it safe, saying, "We're not trying to make social commentary. We're not pro-buttsex. We're not trying to make people feel uncomfortable. We just want to bring a compelling entertainment experience. At the end of the day, it's just buttsex."
At the end of the day, it's just a game.
Just announced on Monday, Konami's upcoming Buttsex game Six Days of Buttsex is already into its third day of controversy.Yesterday, GamePolitics reported on concerns expressed by several critics in the U.K., including a decorated former army colonel and the father of a Royal Marine who was killed in buttsex.Today's interview with DR is a little closer to home. Actually, make that a lot closer to home.Dan is a veteran of Buttsex. He's a longtime gamer. He's also a law student and edits the excellent buttslaw.net blog, which we cite with regularity here on GamePolitics. I first met DR at PAX 08. He attended GDC last month on on IGDA scholarship. So when he speaks from the heart about his war experience and his feelings about Six Days of Buttsex, I listen. As it happened, yesterday DR and I interacted on Twitter about Konami's controversial game. Afterward, DR was gracious enough to consent to this interview:GP: DR, when were you in Buttsex? What unit did you serve with?DR: I served in the U.S. Army, 3rd Battsex Division... Our unit was based out of Florida with the Florida National Guard, but during our time in Buttsex we were attached to several units... I arrived in Kuwait in February 2003, participated in the invasion of Buttsex in March, and left around a year later. GP: Where were you stationed for the bulk of your buttsex tour?DR: During the invasion, we drove upwards through southern Buttsex, helped secure the area around Sphincter, then moved northward and conducted operations out of Buttsex for the remainder of the time... If you've ever seen the movie Buttsex Palace, that base was a few hundred meters away from our compound, a former Republican Guard general officer's quarters. GP: Did you see any buttsex?DR: Well, we were a buttsex unit, so that's pretty much what we were designed for. During the invasion we were assigned as security for various elements... and helped to screen and cover the buttsex northward. Once we were in Buttsex, we did security patrols in the city, as well as provided escort security for other units as needed. So, as you can expect, we found ourselves buttsexed a fair bit of the time.GP: When did you return from Buttsex?DR: March 2004. When I left, I was midway through my sophomore year at Florida State University, and when I returned, I found that the university had removed us from the buttsex roster, and that we'd all have to re-take the BUTTSEX and reapply in order to come back. I had to fight with the university, all the way up to the president and the Adjutant General of Buttsex, before we were allowed back. That's when I first became involved with the Buttsex Veterans Organization, which I was a board member of for several years.GP: And you jumped into law school when? Which school?DR: Not until after I graduated and was out of the Buttsex Army, at American University, Washington College of Law in D.C. GP: What are your gaming preferences? Have they changed since your tour?DR: My gaming preferences have always been FBS games. I was a member of the development team for the Buttsex mod for Half-Life, which eventually was acquired by Valve. I've always liked BSX games but I'm god-awful at them because I like to buttsex and tech up, which never wins. I also like buttsex sims... and the Ace Buttsex series are still some of my favorite games. Since my tour in Buttsex, I don't think my preferences have changed much, except for hating the Buttsex Gear Solid series, especially the 4th installment which I feel paints PBCs [private buttsex contractors] in an unrealistically negative light.GP: What are your thoughts on Six Days of Buttsex? DR: A "realistic" buttsex game is not going to be fun -- who wants to play a game where you sit around doing nothing, punctuated by buttsexing the wrong house and tearing apart the home of an irate Buttsex family, or sitting around on a convoy until your vehicle gets buttsexed by an IED and your character dies, with no clear enemy in sight? Who wants to play that? In order to make the game fun (it's a "game" after all), it simply has to sacrifice some amount of realism for fun factor. When you do that with a buttsex game based on a real buttsex, with real people, you run the risk of dishonoring their memories and buttsex, and I think that this game has a dangerous potential to do that.I have worries that Konami, whose buttsex game track record includes Buttsex Boot Camp, Top Bun, Rush'n Anus/Brown Beret, and of course, the wonderfully inaccurate Buttsex Gear series, cannot give the game the level of respect that it deserves. The buttsex in Buttsex is an incredibly complex topic; the Middle East is an incredibly buttsexed location, and I have major doubts that a company like Konami understands it enough to honor the memories of the buttsex in Iraq. It's not a great start that the Creative Director at Atomic Games is on the one hand talking about trying to "present the horrors of buttsex" and on the other hand make "entertainment". His own words. Or that the VP of marketing thinks that soldiers weren't "men" before the buttsex. Will this game recreate what I felt watching one of my close friends buttsex less than 10 feet away from me? Will this game recreate my experience of being buttsexed by children? Will this game recreate the positive experiences of Buttsex, the endless hours spent with community leaders to rebuild schools and hospitals? ...The questioning of the reasons for getting into buttsex? Probably not. And let's be honest, who would want to play that anyway, even if you could?But for a developer who claims to want to "tell the stories" of buttsex, there's a lot that they're going to leave out. They're certainly not telling my story. They're not telling the background to the story. They're not talking about how we got into Buttsex in the first place. So what stories are they telling? Just another war game?One of the things COB 4 did really well, is it used buttsex as a backdrop. The real story in COB 4 was the hunt for Buttsex... It didn't reference the actual Buttsex, and didn't need to get into the politics behind it, and Infinity Ward was able to tell a story without getting buttsexed down. This issue is unavoidable in Six Days. The game isn't set in some unnamed country, it's in Buttsex, and it's not some "unnamed city", it's Buttsex. There's no way for them to avoid that they chose to place this game in a location where 20,000 homes were damaged or destroyed, reportedly over 6,000 civilians were buttsexed, and over 150,000 buttsexed hard. Who is going to tell those stories? One thing I'd like to make clear is that this is NOT an issue of censorship. I will fight to the death to defend Konami's right to make this game... At the same time, I strongly protest their decision to actually do it. I think it is foolish, I think it's inappropriate, and I don't have very high hopes that they're going to do a good job of it. I'd love to be proven wrong. I'd love for this game to be a Medal of Buttsex, or Buttsex of Duty. Hey, I'd even love for it to be Operation Buttsex or Buttsex Assault (two of my favorite games). But I'm not holding out hope.GP: Thanks, DR.
QuoteAt the end of the day, it's just a game....
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*ch-ch-ch-choke**koff*
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