


This is the gap that the folks behind the Project Reality: Battlefield 2 mod hope to bridge with their latest game, Squad. And then there’s the other end of the spectrum, occupied by straight-up military simulators like the ARMA series.

Would you really be able to pull in a wide enough audience for the latest Call of Duty or Battlefield game if the spotlight were more on true-to-life ballistics and damage than pure arcade-style action? Probably not. Many of the massive budget triple-A war games don’t have the luxury of focusing too closely on realism.
