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People called DOOM realistic when it came out in 1993.
If I was my current age back then I would have asked those people what drugs they were on to see demons IRL.
Allegedly they used Doom to desensitize soldiers?
Marketing stunt. They made an official mod and stuck Marines™ on it. They were doing pathetic shit like that in the 90s to keep enlistments up. It was never meant to be a real "simulator."
Not Doom, no, but the military did (and probably still does) have an FPS video game it used for training.
America’s Army
Yes, but having played like VS3 or something of AA, in the early 00s, AA is a lot more... structured and realistic in the sense of the job rather than the amount of gore it had.