War Game To Use Troop-Filmed DoD Footage

Thanks to Yahoo!/Hollywood Reporter for the news that a new videogame will incorporate exclusive raw video shot by U.S. troops stationed in Iraq, Afghanistan, Liberia, and elsewhere. The PC action title, called Kuma:War, launches next February (there are screenshots available via Blue's News), and intends to allow you to "play the news" with a CNN-style filmed introduction to each real-life themed game level - the article explains: "players could get a first-person perspective experience of what it was like to rescue Army Pvt. Jessica Lynch or participate in the raid that killed Uday and Qusay Hussein - staged authentically, right down to such details as the type of grenades that were used in the mission and the exact location of the snipers."

Comments

I don't know about this

[PeteyG]

I'm all about games. I really like first person soldier games.

But this is kind of twisted. Its just not right to be playing games based on the life and death situations that our military is facing this very moment. I'm not going to have fun taking down an Iraqi insurgent with my simulated M-16, when a very real soldier or Marine is doing the exact same thing on the other side of the world.

Now, with games set in the past (like, at least ten years ago) or games set in a hypothetical future (like the Rainbow 6 games)... I'll have an absolute blast. Mostly because I'm not too busy empathizing with the guys who've got their lives on the line in the exact same situations that I'm playing, at that exact same moment.