I was just reading this article on BBC News website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4460082.stm and wondered if anyone has actually played this game? According to BBC the game is free to download and you can play multiplayer with more than 12 people at once. The URL for the site is http://www.americasarmy.com/ I might give it a try some night
My recruiter game me a copy. They give them out at the recruiter's office if you don't feel like downloading it. Just go in, and act like you are interested in joining. I was told it was made as a marketing tool for teenagers to join the military. I have never played it, since my laptop's graphic card isn't the best. Probably a good game, though. Too bad it's purpose is less then moral.
This is used for training, how is its purpose "less than moral" if it saves lives? My son was given a copy of this by his recruiter as well; now he's in Iraq. I don't play video games, but I can appreciate the value of this training to real soldiers. If non-soldiers can have fun with it too, then what's the harm?
No. I don't play any game except SWAT 4. it is the bombdiggity! Suspect cornered! Open & Clear! Call the cops! He's getting away, dammit! Deploy Gas!!!! Roger that!!! Ahem...
I don't play any game except HALO2... BooooooooooM Headshooooooot! Ahh, you got pwned! How bout some balls in your face newbie! Ahem... but yea I did play AA for a couple days when it first came out a couple years ago. It's a dang good game for free.
Just don't think the Army should use a game about killing people to get kids to join. A small percentage of the Army is about that. Dying soldiers is nothing to play games about. Gold bless you, your son, and family for your sacrifice. That is something to be admired.
Thats the only game i play. I cant really see how it recruits people. At first you need to pass the training which involves first aid, weapons, enemy recognition etc. After that you just kill people online.
The game has been out for a year or two now I think, it's not THAT great but decent for being free and all
Well I reckon I'll give it a go. Hows (tf) going these days? Are you getting some more maturer members to join up yet?
I don't think the game is to lure kids to join. Some recruiters can be very um, er, ahh... shall we be diplomatic and simply say persistent? and therefore I don't doubt that some recruiters may try to use it that way, but in my son's case he was given his copy after he joined. He got a t-shirt and wallet and some other silly little trinkets too. Exactly, which is why I approve of this game. As the article says: The novice America's Army player must master everything from firing standard military rifles, to learning basic first aid. a crash course in ... "the core Army values of teamwork, integrity and leadership". "We're using the game to help train soldiers to deal with civilians, doctors, locals, priests and clerics, and town leaders," Although it's good for training (or so I'm told) the general publics use of the game is not the same as the army's use of the game... As the article says: "You can even bring your own guns, your own vehicles to the training exercise," says Greg Owns, who is with Laser Shot, the company that worked with the US Army on the Convoy trainer. "We strap a steering assembly onto your Humvee, and you're training with the rifles you carry, and the Humvee you got to the training site with. And I can make it look like a PC game, that the average 19, 20-year-old rifleman or combatant right now grew up playing." Although soldiers can use this to train with the rifles they carry, using the Humvees they drive to the traing site, I find it hard to believe your average kid has access to that equipment. Even if they do, you can bet the army won't let them use their training facilities. It's hard for me to believe anyone would join the army because of a video game. Well, more accurately, it's hard for me to believe the army would accept anyone stupid enough to join because of a video game...the army has standards too you know. On the other hand, you could use the "training kids to kill" argument for the majority of video games. For example, the army labeled my son an "expert sharpshooter" ...he truthfully told his drill sergeant his only experience in firing a weapon before basic training was an addiction to Nintendo's Duck Hunt as a kid. Obviously that childhood training came in handy in real life when he had to learn to use the real thing. So we have a game that is both fun for players and useful as a training tool, saves lives, and is given away free. Plus no one is forced to use it. Not too bad, is it?
Have you seen the commercials for the new grant theft auto? or whatever the new one is? geeeeeez...it's pretty damn violent
Yeah! It's all about SWAT. *Flicks Hair* Seriously it's such a good game...everyone should play it. I don't think I play it in the right way though...You have to go snooping round houses looking for suspects, but I just like to check out the interior and I loveeeee shooting everybody. Hence why I'm still on the first level because I keep shooting my own Swat Team. =/