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zamwini · 08-15-2008, 03:39 AM

In a video game!
Source-http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/georgia-russia-conflict-predicted-in-2001-video-game/1237410

Quote:

Recent news coverage of the worrying ground war between Russia and Georgia could well leave gamers with a sense of deja vu.

The South Ossetia war, which began on August 7, bears a close resemblance to events portrayed in the 2001 Xbox and Playstation 2 game "Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon," the first level of which takes place against the backdrop of a struggle between Georgian rebel forces and the legitimate Georgian government in the South Ossetian region.

Ghost Recon's plot follows these skirmishes with a full-scale Russian invasion of the region, a subsequent evacuation of US forces, and ultimately the fall of the Georgian government. Ghost Recon almost got the timescale right, too: the game's imaginary events begin in April 2008, just a few months before the real war kicked off. If Ghost Recon's uncanny trend continues, we can expect the South Ossetia conflict to culminate in a dramatic assault on Red Square and the Kremlin by NATO troops -- spearheaded by an elite US special forces team under the control of a pimply fourteen-year-old with a joypad. Considering that the most recent game in the Ghost Recon series climaxes with an oh-so-narrowly-averted terrorist nuclear strike on the US, we hope the predictive power of the game runs out. Soon.

Pretty werid huh?

Mr.Black · 08-15-2008, 03:41 AM

lol and terrorist are planning bombs in las vegas?

Crayon · 08-15-2008, 03:43 AM

Wow, that actually is pretty weird.

Serix · 08-15-2008, 04:22 AM

Tom Clancy is actually a Soviet leader.

08-15-2008, 03:43 AM	#3 (permalink)
Crayon Luigi’s Pizza Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 137 Reputation: 13	Wow, that actually is pretty weird. __________________

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Serix OnRPG Elite Member! Join Date: May 2007 Location: Mexico Posts: 5,658 Reputation: 132	Tom Clancy is actually a Soviet leader. __________________

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Mr.Black Banned Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 1,652 Reputation: 32	lol and terrorist are planning bombs in las vegas?