Thoughts over Orientalism in video-games

You know, I play a lot of video-games. Or I should say, I used to play a lot of video-games, damn school for making me busy all the time. But anyway, I've played the hell out of Call of Duty 4 and I remember thinking when the game came out "a lot of these sights are pretty interesting looking, I wonder if they give a decent portrayal of Arab life." Well obviously they don't, because there really is no 'life' whatsoever in this game, it's just death haha. You don't really see children portrayed, or women for that matter. The only Arabs, and I use this terms incredibly loosely, that you see are soldiers, and even then they use the same character models over and over again. Conversely, when you play a game like Grand Theft Auto, there is a sense of an actual American life going on. People are walking to work, hanging out, etc. You can go to stores and restaurants. It actually does a good job of attempting to recreate some semblance of reality. I wonder if we'll ever really see a game that handles orientalism by challenging it head on and breaks the mold of the same cliche'd shooters that give the same message to users.