We should start this announcement with a history lesson. On August 12, 2000, the Kursk submarine tried to fire a dummy torpedo on the Barents Sea, but it failed, which was followed by a fire on the Kursk, which eventually exploded and drowned, taking 118 lives in the process.

The Polish developer team, called Jujubee, wants to reimagine this catasrophe from another perspective. The game will be a first-person, adventure-survival game, which doesn’t have a release date yet. Instead, we got a teaser, hopefully the game will be shown on E3…

The Russians are also outraged by making a game from this catastrophy. One YouTube user, Alexei Kolesnikov, wrote in the comments thread that the Kursk idea was like making a game about the 9/11 terrorist attacks in New York.
Another user, HakujinTrue, wrote in Russian that the makers of the game had “lost their minds.”
“Maybe we can make a game [called] ‘Katyn: Shoot the Polish Officer,’” he wrote in reference to the 1940 massacre of 20,000 Polish officers by the Soviet NKVD, the predecessor to the KGB.

Former communist allies, Russia and Poland have had often strained relations since the collapse of the Warsaw pact in 1991.
Jujubee describes KURSK as a “First-Person Adventure & Survival Game” in which the player is apparently tasked with escaping the doomed submarine after an explosion in its forward torpedo room crippled the ship and sent it to the bottom of the ocean.

“There is still controversy surrounding the real fate of this Russian submarine and with our game we hope to raise and answer some questions,” Stepien said in the press release.

During the Kursk rescue efforts, the Russian government declined offers of aid from NATO members with special rescue submarines. KURSK does not yet have a release date, but Jujubee says it will be released on all major video game platforms: PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

What do you think? Is this way too much to make a game from an event like that?