Wells, the famous British novelist and pacifist, created a tabletop war game called Little Wars designed to be played with toy soldiers, praising it with the following words: Finally, survival games such as This War Of Mine remind players about the human cost of war and how it can shatter the lives of ordinary people in its wake. Third-person shooter games like Spec Ops: The Line can help players understand how dangerously easy it is for leaders of military operations to succumb to self-destructive obsession, committing horrific deeds in order to 'win' an increasingly pointless war. Strategy games like Wargame: Red Dragon can teach gamers a bit about the tactics and logistical challenges of modern war, and how certain battlefield weapons can easily be used to commit atrocities. There are, however, vital fragments of truth gamers with a discerning eye can glean from certain video games.

This is mostly by design a war-simulating video game that truly captured all the logistical challenges and moral traumas of real modern warfare wouldn't be fun to play. The simulated wars seen in video games like Call Of Duty are very different from modern conflicts in the real world.

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