But then, does this mean that the boundary between fiction and reality has become too porous to be able to distinguish one from the other? Not really. If the game developer regrets that for “every video removed, ten more are uploaded every day”, There are several good tips for learning to distinguish the real from the fake:
– The very low resolution: in the majority of the examples cited above, the images had been intentionally pixelated to conceal their origin.
– Lack of sound: often sound effects are removed.
– No moving people: if the vehicles are very realistic, the human movements betray the virtual origin of the images. This is why, in general, there is no visible individual.
– Unnatural particle effects: Even the most modern games struggle to realistically depict explosions, smoke, fire and dust, the developers remind, calling for attention to these details.
– And finally, it is also the uniformity of vehicles, uniforms or equipment that must be questioned.
All these clues made it possible, in each of the videos mentioned above, to doubt their authenticity.