The Anecdote

The day after the second Iraq war, Sony filed or tried to file a trademark on the phrase shock and awe for a future video game title. The conventional wisdom on realism in gaming is that because life today is so computer mediated gamers actually benefit from hours of realistic gameplay. Ronald Reagan's argument in the 1980s when he famously predicted that action video games were training a new generation of cyber warriors ready to fight real foes on the real battlefield. Metal Gear Solid 2 theory of creating genome soldiers right through the VR missions.