History Main / VirtualTrainingSimulation

-->-- "[[PaperThinDisguise Iroquois Pliskin]]", ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty''

* ''LightNovel/RebuildWorld'' has a variant of this, AugmentedReality training, where the combatants wear goggles that through a computer, simulate their weapons going off and where they’ll hit. Akira does this while training Sheryl’s gang of StreetUrchin rabble into a full blown hunter PrivateMilitaryCompany. He improvised at first with just his VirtualSidekick and cheap goggles, but after he [[CorporateSponsoredSuperhero got a corporate sponsorship]] from KIRYO, to test out their FlawedPrototype MissionControl and augmented reality system on the gang, the training improves significantly, not only making the kids into warriors, but Akira into a OneManArmy by simulating taking on the whole gang himself.

* Several in the ''Franchise/StarWarsExpandedUniverse''.
** The "''Redemption'' Scenario" in the ''Literature/XWingSeries'' is used as the final exam to enter Rogue Squadron. In a MythologyGag, Mike Stackpole based it on an [[ThatOneLevel infamous level]] in the ''VideoGame/XWing'' PC game.
** In ''Wraith Squadron'', the Wraith inductees are put through a simulation based on the TIE ambush that, earlier in the book, killed Myn Donos' entire squadron. A different simulation (the attack on the first Death Star with a couple star destroyers added) is used to check whether a [[PerfectPacifistPeople Talz]] entrant can handle killing. The brain scans say no, and Wedge recommends him for a transfer to a freighter piloting job.

* In ''[[Literature/CarrerasLegions The Lotus Eaters]]'', Admiral Wallenstein uses a VR training station to get the Earl of Care up to speed on commanding a starship, as Wallenstein's promotion just before the Earl was put under her left the United Earth Peace Fleet ship she was previously commanding without a CO.
* In the ''LightNovel/CatPlanetCuties'' light novels, the Catians have holodecks that look exactly like one out of ''Star Trek'' when not active. At least, that's the look chosen in the anime version.
* Frequently used by Literature/TheCulture, who have sufficient computing power to create indistinguishable-from reality VR on a whim, and who like to be very prepared before they enter a situation. Gets bizarre in ''Literature/SurfaceDetail'', where we're told the combatants in the War in Heaven use simulations to prepare for "real" battles ''which are themselves taking place in VR''.

->"War as a video game -- what better way to raise the ultimate soldier?"

* The premise of the vertical {{shmup}} ''VideoGame/ImageFight''.

--> "[[PaperThinDisguise Iroquois Pliskin]]", ''[[VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty]]''

* The home computer versions of ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'' seems to follow the official story. However, completing the fifth stage (by destroying Mecha Pon) reveals that Strider was performing a simulation in preparation for the actual battle, and that his skills will become handy when the real invasion starts. The ending also recycles images, implying that the villains General Mikiel and Tong Pooh were praising Strider for completing the simulation.

** The "''Redemption'' Scenario" in the ''ComicBook/XWingSeries'' is used as the final exam to enter Rogue Squadron. In a MythologyGag, Mike Stackpole based it on an [[ThatOneLevel infamous level]] in the ''VideoGame/XWing'' PC game.

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* Often used in ''SpiderMan'' games.

* Frequently used by the Literature/{{Culture}}, who have sufficient computing power to create indistinguishable-from reality VR on a whim, and who like to be very prepared before they enter a situation. Gets bizarre in ''Literature/SurfaceDetail'', where we're told the combatants in the War in Heaven use simulations to prepare for "real" battles ''which are themselves taking place in VR''.

* The heroes of ''FanFic/TheMotleyTwo'' participate in one of these as part of army training, and those who do badly face demotion. It's sort of patterned after typical CompetitiveMultiplayer {{First Person Shooter}}s, with two teams against each other; one of the "game modes" is an "escort the VIP" objective, while in another an outnumbered team defends themselves until they can use an airstrike.

* ''VideoGame/SpaceQuest V: The Next Mutation'', being a parody of ''Franchise/StarTrek'', starts with [[AlmightyJanitor Roger]] in a [[UnwinnableTrainingSimulation Kobayashi Maru]]-like simulation in the [[TheFederation StarCon]] Academy before beind discovered by [[JerkAss Captain Raems T. Quirk]] and kicked out. Unlike the Trek version, though, this is a one-man simulation.
** In ''Space Quest 6: The Spinal Frontier'', Roger uses a [[HardLight holo-cabana]] onboard the [=SCS=] ''[=DeepShip=] 86'' to load a training program for the Vulgar nerve pinch.
* The tutorial levels for the second ''VideoGame/SystemShock'' are this, taking place in {{Cyberspace}}.

May get dangerous if a HolodeckMalfunction occurs. If it is dangerous or becomes so on a regular basis, it is also a DeadlyTrainingArea. Can be used for a DangerRoomColdOpen or an UnwinnableTrainingSimulation. See also {{Cyberspace}}.

* It's part of the {{backstory}} of ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianDawn'' game that you're a "telegeneral" leading your troops from a computer screen, as if you're playing a RealTimeStrategy game, and thet you were first flagged as potential command talent because the GDI and NOD are monitoring online strategy games for that reason.

* The "Danger Room" of the ComicBook/{{X-Men}} was originally basically just an obstacle course, but in the later issues it was rebuilt into one of these, using holographic technology.