Well, hitting close to home is sort of the point. I was imagining a war game that starts off like usual (You riding in on a helicopter and kicking everything's ass), but the mission goes fubar and your squad is stranded behind enemy lines, probably with only you and one other guy surviving. The intro sequence would basically be Saving Private Ryan's D-Day scene is first-person, but way worse. Maybe the player would get horribly injured in some way (losing a finger or eye or some such) and stay that way the rest of the game.
Sounds horrific to me.