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By making sure that Saudi Arabia is portrayed as an ally in the game’s canon rather than generic MENA terrorists.

It sounds silly at first but the US military has been doing something similar for ages with Hollywood, at least since WWII. The difference is the armed forces use access to military equipment for filming as the carrot rather than financing the productions directly.



The US Army has literally put out a video game as a recruiting tool: America's Army.




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