Ghost Recon Pegs Georgian Conflict…7 Years Early
Remember the original Ghost Recon from 2001? Well some folks are looking at it in a whole new light following the increasingly volatile political situation in Georgia. Why? You might not recall, it being seven years ago and all (oh god, really?), that the plot went a little something like this:
“The year is 2008, and the world teeters on the brink of war. Radical ultranationalists have seized power in Moscow - their goal, the reestablishment of the old Soviet empire. Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan - one by one the nearby independent republics slip back into the Russian orbit. Russian tanks sit in the Caucasus Mountains and the Baltic forests, poised to strike to the south and east. The world holds its breath, and waits.”
Your squad takes on a trouble-making bunch of South Ossetian rebels, eager to pave the way for a Russian invasion of Georgia. Well isn’t that a strange…check this out.
All kinds of schlocky comments are being made about the game predicting the future, etc, etc, but really, aside from the selection of the proper year (coincidence?), if anyone couldn’t see the festering tensions between Russia, Georgia, and South Ossetia, well they need to listen to a bit more of the BBC. But still, it’s an interesting story that shows that video games are not always entirely disconnected from the “real” world around them, as many critics claim.
Via | GamePolitics
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