A few years back I blogged about an
AC-130 gunship video. You can watch it on Youtube
now, it's a creepy but fascinating live view of soldiers in a
gunship killing people on the ground in Afghanistan. At the time, it
struck me how much this real war video was like a video game.
Now we've come full circle; that war video has been made into a video game
level in Call
of Duty 4. Same visuals, same basic setup of bombing people on the
ground but avoiding a church, even some of the same color dialog. The
game's a little harder; you have to avoid hitting your own people as
well as the church. But the effect is quite similar. And creepy.
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