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Despite the context of the game they have always carried an anti-war message, in every game
The best wargame is the one that makes you hate war.
Sounds like ARMA, walk for an hour and get shot from God knows where. Just like real life!
Doesn't Arma 3 have an entire DLC based around war crimes and cleaning mines/explosives after a brutal war?
Absolutely, it's the only video game I know of to have direct consultation from the International Committee of the Red Cross to portray humanitarian aid in war zones. Half the revenue from that DLC was donated to the ICRC. It's also the only game where an emblem is correctly depicted (the red crystal).
Footage from Arma 3 has been used repeatedly across all sorts of propaganda for many years. It's one of the best mil sim games ever created, even some US govt contractors that build sim training modules are impressed by how accurate some of it looks.
While absolutely fucked it's being used for this, your game being so realistic that it can be used to create actual war propaganda is pretty impressive.
It's fine, Hamas also uses scenes from movies in their propaganda all the time.