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Your Tax Dollars At Work: Spy Games
April 24, 2008
The U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency commissioned sim developer, Visual Purple, to produce three games to help train up our next crop of spooks. The three titles, Rapid Onset, Vital Passage, and Sudden Thrust, aim to train new intelligence recruits how to quickly analyze complex situations with Jack Bauer-esque ease.
Situations vary between analyzing an attack on a natural-gas tanker to figuring out whether or not the purchase of an ex-Soviet aircraft carrier by the Chinese seems a little shifty. Apparently Sudden Thrust involves some SEALs coming in on choppers but the game itself focuses on the exciting realm of epistemology. Riveting action titles, these ain’t. The government shelled out $2.6 million to pay for the games which sound like an interesting idea. We don’t really need special training to figure out the secret meaning behind all three presidential candidates taping pro wrasslin’-flavored segments for Monday Night Raw. We’re all fucked!
[Wired]
