One game was actually considered realistic-looking enough that back in 2018, a certain Russian news agency mistook gameplay footage of 'Arma 3' as real footage of the combat in Syria. Unlike the mainline titles that populate the market these days like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and other similar ones, the 'Arma' games are more than 'shoot the bad guys.' In this game series, you take command of squads of fully armed troops, employ varied strategies across large-scale battlefields (some of which are actually bigger than what most modern games have), and even drive a fair amount of historically accurate war machines. Bohemia Interactive, whose latest release is the free-to-play loot shooter 'Vigor,' is one of the best developers when it comes to making games like 'Arma: Cold War Assault'-games that people would unofficially call 'combat simulators.' And they were praised for giving gamers a relatively accurate depiction of being a lone soldier in a war.
