Sheppard, meanwhile, chose to go the more militaristic route, increasing his army beyond that of McKay. McKay (David Hewlett) plays McKay and Sheppard represent all the players out there, as McKay wanted to be the showy and defensive minded RTS player, choosing to work on technology advancements, and plastering his mug all over his world. Regardless of that fact, it was still a really fun and interesting look at the idea of if games were real. So just because we don't name the book, know that we know the book and know that we know we felt the same thing too. It's hard to reference a certain book that this episode feels it was obviously taken from without spoiling said book in question, so don't go emailing us saying, "Oh, it was a complete rip-off of the book so-and-so!" Yes, we've read this certain sci-fi book, and when we learned the game was real, we instantly thought about the book in question. But then, one day, a picture of McKay is found hanging in a town square by an away mission team, and the two soon learn they've been controlling real people and not games. The two friends enjoyed playing against each other, trying to make their country the best it could be. Welcome to the situation McKay and Sheppard finds themselves in this week.Īfter arriving at Atlantis, the two found what amounted to a game room, with what appeared to be a real time strategy game along the lines of Warcraft, Starcraft, Civilization - those kinds of games. But what if that game you were playing had real world consequences, and each individual AI entity was actually real, and when you playfully planned a course of action to lead an attack on perhaps some other village, you were really killing thousands in the process.
Who doesn't love videogames? We know we do.