Everything You Need To Know about Six Days in Fallujah
In and out of development hell for the *checks notes* over the last thirteen years or so, it’s probably fair to say that the fate of Six Days in Fallujah has been something of a rollercoaster for the publisher and fans alike. Now, however, Six Days in Fallujah looks like it has finally turned the corner thanks to renewed development and a PC and console release being on the cards. To bring you bang up to date, here’s everything you need to know about Six Days in Fallujah including the release date, early access information, content roadmap, gameplay details, and much more.
Six Days in Fallujah Release Date
The Six Days in Fallujah early access release date has been confirmed as June 22, 2023. Six Days in Fallujah will have a full release on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, and PC via Steam at a later date once the PC early access period has concluded sometime in mid to late 2024.
Six Days in Fallujah Early Access Details
As we’ve mentioned, the Six Days in Fallujah PC Early Access release date has been set for June 22, 2023. According to developer Highwire Games, Six Days in Fallujah is expected to be in Early Access on PC for just over twelve months. While more content will be added from the roadmap throughout the Early Access period, on June 22, 2023, Six Days in Fallujah will be released with a quartet of cooperative missions that can be undertaken with up to four players against a highly competent AI-driven force across a range of procedurally generated maps. These four missions account for the first two days of the game’s setting where the street-to-street fighting between coalition forces and insurgents was at its most fierce.
Given just how challenging the opposing side in Six Days in Fallujah is supposed to be, it is strongly recommended that you take a friend with you, lest you end up six feet under in short order. It’s also worth remembering that as more features are added to Six Days in Fallujah during Early Access, the purchase price will increase accordingly – so it’s certainly worth getting in on day one and enjoying all that additional content for free if you can.
What Is Six Days in Fallujah About?
Six Days in Fallujah is a first-person tactical squad-based shooter but it’s one that strives for authenticity more than anything else. Following the plight of a squad of U.S. Marines from 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines, Six Days in Fallujah thrusts players into the real-life bloody Second Battle of Fallujah and unfurls its narrative across six, gut-wrenching days. To make it feel as authentic as possible, Six Days in Fallujah was developed in consultation with more than 100 Marines and Soldiers who served in the Second Battle of Fallujah in 2004. This is in addition to the dozens of Iraqi soldiers and civilians from the same time. Additionally, the U.S. government has no involvement in the development of Six Days in Fallujah, and also the game is independently financed to boot. Finally, it’s also worth noting that you cannot play as an insurgent in any of the game modes in Six Days in Fallujah – this isn’t that sort of game.
How Does Six Days in Fallujah Depict Iraqis?
Keen to extricate itself from the simplistic ‘us versus them’ shtick that so often blights other first-person shooters, the developers behind Six Days in Fallujah have gone to great lengths to depict the Iraqi people as, well, people. Not only do Iraqi civilians and embedded coalition interpreters appear in the game, but so too can players take on the role of the Iraqi soldiers who fought alongside American and British forces during the Second Battle of Fallujah. The portrayal of Iraqis in Six Days in Fallujah is bolstered by the interviews that the development team conducted with 28 Iraqis early on in the game’s development, allowing these people to impart their experiences, feelings, and stories to the team in order to breathe life into their in-game representation.
How Does Six Days in Fallujah Play?
As far from the three-dimensional game of whack-a-mole that many less serious FPS titles have become, Six Days in Fallujah is all about marrying up precision gunplay with dynamic battlefield tactics. From implementing suppressing fire to sophisticated flanking maneuvers, ingress breaches and more, approaching Six Days in Fallujah like Call of Duty is going to get you filled with holes quicker than you can say ‘push X to pay respect’.
With the Second Battle of Fallujah widely recognized as one of the toughest battles of modern times, Six Days in Fallujah differentiates itself from the competition by essentially crafting a 360-degree battlefield. What this means is that danger can come from anywhere – from snipers in towers to small arms fire in close quarters and IEDs that have been wired into the ground, staying alive in Six Days in Fallujah is so much more than just blasting whoever you can see in front of you.
According to its developers, Six Days in Fallujah exists quite simply to give a voice to the people who were there and who, by virtue of the media of the time, were perhaps portrayed in ways that were disconnected to their actual natures and the experiences that they went through during the fateful Second Battle of Fallujah in late 2004.
How Violent Is Six Days in Fallujah?
Befitting its reputation as one of the bloody conflicts in recent memory, Six Days in Fallujah is plenty violent. Players can expect eruptions of red mist as bullets tear through flesh and limbs, while enemies fall to the ground appropriately lifeless after they’ve been killed. Out of respect for the veterans and their loved ones, you will only see the death of a Marine or Soldier if their families have specifically signed off on it. Otherwise, Six Days in Fallujah will convey the death of Soldiers and Marines via video interviews that take place during the story campaign that will be implemented later on in Early Access.
Six Days in Fallujah Content Roadmap Details
Speaking of which, over the course of its Early Access run, the developers behind Six Days in Fallujah will look to implement the following features from their content roadmap:
- Additional maps for use in the four-player cooperative mission modes
- Implementation of times of day and complex weather systems
- Inclusion of special operations forces from other coalition nations
- Additional equipment and mission types
- AI teammates that can stand in for human players in the cooperative mission modes
- The inclusion of different civilian types can complicate missions significantly
- Introduction of story campaign missions later in Early Access that are based on and sometimes narrated by the Iraqis and coalition forces that were there
Where Can I Watch The Latest Six Days In Fallujah Trailer?
The latest trailer for Six Days in Fallujah is all about the kicking off of early access for the game on June 22, 2023, and provides a decent impression of what you can expect from the game on day one. You can catch the latest Six Days in Fallujah trailer above.
Six Days In Fallujah PC Specifications – Can My PC Run Six Days In Fallujah?
With its accurate bullet simulations and detailed combat environments, Six Days in Fallujah needs a fairly chunky PC rig to get the most out of it. Something else to bear in mind is that as Six Days in Fallujah matures through the early access process, both the minimum and recommended PC specifications may increase as the game becomes more technically ambitious. You can sneak a peek at the current minimum and recommended Six Days in Fallujah PC specifications below.
Six Days in Fallujah Minimum PC Specifications:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: Intel i5 7th generation or AMD Ryzen 5-2600
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia GTX 970 or AMD Radeon R9 390 / AMD 580
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 22 GB available space
- Sound Card: Direct-X compatible
Six Days in Fallujah Recommended PC Specifications:
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 11
- Processor: Intel i7-8700 or AMD Ryzen 7-2700x
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia RTX 2070 or AMD RX-5700XT
- DirectX: Version 12
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 22 GB available space
- Sound Card: Direct-X compatible