A few weeks ago a friend showed me the demo for a new real time strategy game called Act of War, where terrorists try to take over the US, and the US battles to stop them. It seems like any other game, but it is so in depth, and the scenarios are so real life that many military strategists are thinking of using the game to help the us prepare for future terrorist threats. Do you think this is a good idea? Can our country depend on computer games to help our defenses? Please let me know your opinions, thanks in advance.

I dont know man...with a game I heard about but never seen is about 911. there are others about suicide bombings,and more shiat. I dont think we should or even try to depend on these so called games for defense. its all BS to me.
thanx for the heads up Jay and welcome to this site.

Well, some of the hype about using the game as a training tool is probably pre-publicity. We have been following the development of the game at MilitarySpot.com. This is a very highly-anticipated game that begins with truck bombs on bridges in San Francisco. There is also a book that will be released around the same time as the game (in March). There has been some debate in these forums about should we give our thoughts on what would make a good terror attack, seeing that terrorists could get ideas. But unless the debate exposes some sort of unknown vulnerability, I don't see that we on these forums could think of something the terrorists have not already thought about, or could think about. Their cleverness was shown on 9/11.

http://www.atari.com/actofwar/

Tow,you just said it as we were posting the same time!
I agree with you about they probably had thought about this stuff already.

Almost sounds like Real War.

Real War even sports the claim that it used by the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

SWAT2 also tried to deal with terrorists inside of the US. It was okay but you had to really know SWAT tatics to really enjoy the game.

Joint Chiefs just sitting in the situation room playing computer games? Someone's been increasing thier medication without doctors orders.....