You couldn't play The Dark Knight or 24, so those aren't exactly relevant here.

I'm just commenting on the coincidental impending release of both these *games* with their parallels to real world events.

And I never claimed issues of civil unrest and national surveillance are new concepts... the latter became prominent in the 60's and the former has been around since like the dawn of civilization.

But I still think that both these games will offer unique and heavily topical experiences that could foreshadow real world situations. No, video games depicting future or near-future situations obviously isn't new, but neither have they converged with such heavily debated national news before either. And whether you care or not, the PRISM and drone warfare national debates aren't ending any time soon.