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Playstation/Gaming Discussions => PS3 Discussion => Topic started by: dajo on August 24, 2002, 10:24:08 AM
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Could be old news, but I thought it was interesting.
NEW YORK — It\'s the hottest online video game of the summer, and it\'s Uncle Sam\'s way to reach out to the next generation of patriots.
The Army wants you to be all you can be -- even if all you want to be right now is a video game junkie.
The Army has spent two years and more than $7 million to develop "America\'s Army," a first-person combat simulation game that can be downloaded free from the Army\'s Web site.
Players get to put themselves in very realistic military situations -- from the obstacle courses of basic training to the killing on the battlefield.
The goal of the game is to take down the bad guys, to stop them with everything from M-16s to grenades. Players also have to reload their weapons and dodge enemy fire, all the while helping America fight the war on terror.
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The Army is hoping that video game enthusiasts -- and possible Army recruits -- will play the game often and get good at it. If players eventually find themselves considering a future in the military, that means the game\'s mission has been accomplished.
But it\'s not quite that simple, according to those who developed "America\'s Army."
"The game might perk (people\'s) interest and then they go off and do some research," said Lt. Col. Casey Wardynski, originator and director of the project. "We don\'t think the game is the end point. You don\'t play the game and then enlist in the army. It\'s a starting point."
But the game has its critics. Some say it could get into the hands of kids younger than the age the Army is targeting.
Sidney Merin, a Florida forensic psychologist, said the game, which is rated "T" for "Teen," could easily be seen or played by a teen\'s younger siblings.
"It\'s nice to think that only 18-year-olds will look at this or play it at home," Merin told the St. Petersburg Times. "It doesn\'t happen that way."
Younger kids are "very, very impressionable," Merin added.
And Merin, among others, also expressed concern over the fact that the U.S. government has approved a game that so clearly depicts "maiming and killing" in a realistic setting.
But if many of today\'s top-selling video games are any indication, the violence in "America\'s Army" might be exactly what teens want.
The Army has said it reached its recruiting goals early this year, thanks to new advertisements, Sept. 11 and a sluggish economy. However, there has been a steady decline in enlistment over the last decade.
Recruiters are hoping "America\'s Army" can keep the number of recruits rising.
Fox News Channel\'s Rick Folbaum contributed to this report
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actually the game sounds and looks quite exciting, and i\'m planning on downloading it later (main reason~ coz its free :p).
btw this should have gone in the pc forum ;).
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NO!!I AM A CADET RESERVE OFFICER!!!AND THE ARMY SUCKS!!!DAMN AMERICA!!!!THEY EVEN BRAINWASH PEOPLE WITH GAMES TO RECRUIT PEOPLE INTO ARMY!!!!ARMY IS WHAT MAKES WAR!!!AND WAR MUST STOP BEFORE MORE PEOPLE GET KILLED!!!!I HATE ARMY!!!!CURSES TO ARMY!!!
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Well this was pretty obvious from the beginning. I had even made a thread a while back talking about this and some other plans this game could be used for.
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I have the game and it\'s amazing. Well, it was amazing...I had to stay at my grandparents house since I was moving and when I came back and this new patches were released and I\'ve never been able to get in a game since. :(
When you\'re in, it\'s every bit as good as Counter-Strike, really.
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I downloaded it... it froze on me during the traning mission. I only tried it once tho....
Anyone know the system requirements?
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Is the game online? If it\'s not, I won\'t even bother.
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Originally posted by Unicron!
NO!!I AM A CADET RESERVE OFFICER!!!AND THE ARMY SUCKS!!!DAMN AMERICA!!!!THEY EVEN BRAINWASH PEOPLE WITH GAMES TO RECRUIT PEOPLE INTO ARMY!!!!ARMY IS WHAT MAKES WAR!!!AND WAR MUST STOP BEFORE MORE PEOPLE GET KILLED!!!!I HATE ARMY!!!!CURSES TO ARMY!!!
1 word: shaddap...i dled this game when it game out and it is very good. There are a couple things that hinder it but A) its technically free and B) its not the full game, the cd comes out soon. And for ur damn america comment, go back to afghan.
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Originally posted by Viper_Fujax
1 word: shaddap...i dled this game when it game out and it is very good. There are a couple things that hinder it but A) its technically free and B) its not the full game, the cd comes out soon. And for ur damn america comment, go back to afghan.
Your just a n00b, so you better keep quiet. He was just kidding.
Damn n00b\'s and their n00by ways.
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i was just kidding also so it kinda looks like ur the n00b. if i was serious i would have used bad words cuz thats the kinda person i am.
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Originally posted by Viper_Fujax
i was just kidding also so it kinda looks like ur the n00b. if i was serious i would have used bad words cuz thats the kinda person i am.
Most people end their sarcastic comments with a smiley. People would easily assume you were being serious.
Although, I do not believe you.
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Doesnt matter if you believe me or not but unicorn didnt put smileys and i could sense sarcasm, and i was just messing around.
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Yeah I posted this a long time ago.
http://www.game-revolution.com/previews/featured/pc/americas_army.htm
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Yes, that is true that he didn\'t use any smiley\'s but, he has been a member of these forums for a while now and he isn\'t know for his racist remarks.
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damn n00bs, from now on just let people know you kidding. Uni was pretty obvious with his because it was so outlandish, but yours could have very easily been a real statment.
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i know...but i aint no noob. Its been a LONG day and i was just kidding then to be called a noob got my temper up real fast. Noobs are people in americas army who ask what to do when it says the objective in the top right, or what ROE is(if you play the game ud know). So sry again for the mass confusion.
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you were called a n00b because you are NEW to these forums, it had nothing to do with the game
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I am a cadet reserve officer for real and I hate army.For real.:)
But I have nothing against american people if some people in here think I have.I have friends that live there.
I didnt put a smily for sarcasm or a smily for anger as I was both sarcastic about America and angry about war.I just expressed 2 emotions.
U havent seen how people are brainwashed in my country.
btw:where do u download it?
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btw:where do u download it?
http://www.americasarmy.com
Links will be provided there.
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Yeah that army game is pretty fun ...if you can run it on your system. Maybe its just me or maybe alot of you peeps out there have high end machines. I\'m running on a PIII 500 mhz system with a tnt2 32mb vid card with 384 megs of pc100 ram and I could not run taht army game for crap. I had everything turned off running at 640 res and I was getting below 10 fps.
Oh wait thats right , my c omputer is like 5 years old . Hehe sorry to go off topic there anyways the game is pretty realistic. They got the m16 sights dead on. If you want to have a little fun, at the beginning of the demo, where you do your m16 rifle training. take the gun from the table and fire it at the guy who was handing them out. When you leave to start over, you find yourself in the brig. Its pretty hilarious. :)
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The recommended requirements for the game are:
Pentium4 1.4GHz (or equivalent)
256MB RAM
WinME/2000/XP
DirectX8.1
64MB GeForce2 or similar 3D card
1GB disk space
4x CD-Rom (CD version only)
EAX 3.0 compatible sound card
NVIDIA® nForceTM or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio.
Broadband network connection.
The minimum requirements for the game are:
Pentium3 766 (or equivalent)
128MB RAM
Win98/ME/2000/XP
DirectX8.1
32MB vid card supporting hardware T&L
600MB Hard Drive free space
4x CD-Rom (CD version only)
DirectX 8 compatible sound
56k modem or better
NVIDIA® nForceTM or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby® Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio.
anymore questions go here
http://www.americasarmy.com/ops/news/faqtext.php
:)