Iraq War

Iraq War is a failed PvP FPS Arena (aka Counter-Strike ripoff) where you engage in either PvP Multiplayer team based combat, or botmatches. The game has a "tacticool" military theme that pitches Iraqi forces against the USA, but this is mostly a cosmetic skin over what amounts to a bare bones basic FPS template. It looks like large parts of the game are just asset flipped. In line with what seems to be a fairly basic asset flip, the game had a ludicrous price of $20 USD on launch (but the developer seems to have reconsidered their error and made the game free). While there is a botmatching mode, the game is clearly intended to be a PvP competitor to games like Counter Strike, R6 and so on, a comparison it failed badly at. SteamDB shows the game peaked at a miserable 8 players at launch, and then user counts immediately dropped to zero, rendering this essentially unplayable unless you like botmatching in a not-so-great asset flip tier environment. Why did the game fail? It's video game autopsy time! This carries the usual important message that some developers simply don't understand. PvP, other players, are not an acceptable substitute for doing the most important part of your job and adding content to video games. Other players are not the same thing as content. Without single player content to hook players into the PvP mode, it's a pure gamble that your horse will win a race against hundreds of other, bigger, faster horses already running. The developers made this bad bet and they lost. It's noble for the developers to make this free, but it's just not good enough. Video games don't exist in a vacuum. If you're looking for a solid PvP FPS military shooter, try CS:GO here on Steam, also free, and wildly popular.