8 Video Games That Predicted The Future In Ways You Can't Explain

By Scott Tailford / November 22, 2019

4. Ghost Recon's Bizarrely Accurate Dating Of The Russia/Georgia Conflict

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Speaking of conflicts, Tom Clancy's bread and butter has always been drawing up a map of the world and criss-crossing red threads over distanced territories to decide who'll fight who next, but the original 2001 Ghost Recon went one further.

Rather than stay firmly in the aisles of fiction, Ghost Recon not only set up the notion of conflict between Georgia and Russia, but also had the game take place in 2008 (Clancy loved his "It could happen right around the corner" stuff).

Now, not only did Russia and Georgia later come to blows in real life, but when did it happen?

2008.

Don't worry though, assumedly there's a real-life Sam Fisher crouch-walking through a ventilation shaft to listen in on top secret plans as we speak.