Technology and the threat of nuclear annihilation in the last half of the 20th Century have changed the world forever. They changed war and their consequences as they have forever changed the battlefield and the warriors who must still fight on them. It’s been estimated that a nuclear device the size of a small suitcase smuggled in and detonated in New York City would kill several million people instantly and many times that amount in radioactive fallout. This scenario compelled the DoD to create the project codenamed “Harsh Realm.” Using the 1990 census, satellite cartography and other classified data, the creators of Harsh Realm have simulated a virtual reality, where landscapes and people are identical to our world. Down to every man, woman and child. By putting players in this simulated crisis scenario we can protect….

Intro Film to Harsh Realm, Narrated by Gillian Anderson