Americans are angry.

And why shouldn't they be? With an exponentially expanding national debt, crippling foreclosures, corporate bailouts, degrading infrastructure, dwindling job market, and widening income gap between the haves and have-nots, it's getting harder to believe politicians when they speak of American exceptionalism as if it were a fundamental truth.

In response to gradual erosion of our beloved nation, resentful citizens of all kinds of political backgrounds are rising up in the form of new political movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street. But unlike the 1960s. when protests and activism resulted in the discontinuation of the military draft, the Civil Rights Act, and the sexual revolution, the contemporary bickering government parties have proven largely ineffective at slowing or reversing the downward trajectory.

The media isn't helping matters. Rather than promote discussions about viable differ-solutions moving forward, ad-driven 24-hour media outlets and radio programs are content to stoke the fires and sensationalize political differences. History proves that if leaders don't move swiftly to address these grievances, the political rage can sometimes find a more violent channel of expression. Case in point: the meteoric rise of militias over the past few years.

In 2009, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported a massive resurgence in anti-government paramilitary groups, which have jumped from 43 militias in 2007 to nearly 300 in 2010. The sudden surge has captured the attention of the Department of Homeland Security, NSA. CIA, and FBI, who all view these groups as a real threat to the stability of the nation. Moreover, many of these disenfranchised groups frequently put their members through intense military training exercises — for what, no one knows.

America's volatile political climate serves as the jumping-off point for Rainbow 6 Patriots. This latest game in the storied tactical shooter series eschews the exhausted Russian. Chinese, and Middle Eastern crises so common in contemporary shooters and challenges gamers' perceptions by placing them in the roles of the elite tactical unit. the homegrown terrorists, and the civilians caught in the crossfire. Do you have what it takes to pull the trigger on a fellow citizen?

Our live game demo doesn't start with Team Rainbow seated in the back of a chopper or outside a facility surrounded by police. Instead, our first glimpse comes from the perspective of a well-to-do real estate investor sitting in his idyllic American home. Judging by the polished wooden floors, large HDTV, and the iPad-like tablet sitting to his right, this guy is living the good life.

In walks the the man's wife, dressed only in a skimpy nightie. She turns off the TV and saunters toward him with a lit cupcake.

"Happy birthday. Go on, blow it out," she says.

Like a scene out of Heavy Rain, the player is given the option to blow out the candle or stroke his wife's cheek. The developer controlling the demonstration does both.

"You know what I wish for?" the man asks.

"Well, the baby is asleep," she replies seductively.

"Wishes do come true."

Suddenly, the doorbell rings. The woman sighs. "That's probably Dave from next door," she says. "Hold 60 that thought."

The wife gets up to see who rang the bell, but just before she reaches for the doorknob the door bursts open. A group of men swiftly enter uninvited, knocking her to the ground.

"Get away from her!" the homeowner cries. He gets up to defend his wife but doesn't stand a chance against these rugged men. He's easily knocked out cold. When he awakens, a bearded man in a military jacket who looks to be the leader of this group walks over and puts his knife to the wife's neck. You can hear the baby crying faintly from upstairs.

"Rise and shine, birthday boy," the intruder says with a wake-up blow. "You have a very nice place here. Seems you cashed in on everyone getting foreclosed. Today, you are going to make up for that."

The True Patriots' concept of restitution? Strapping him into a vest lined with explosives and going on a field trip. The scene transitions to the back of a van stuck in traffic on the Brooklyn Bridge. The ringleader of this operation hands the birthday boy a trigger and warns him that if he doesn't hold the detonator button down, he'll go up in flames. If he doesn't make it to Times Square before he releases the button, his family is dead.