USArmy Gets Unreal

imagine a soldier playing with a laptop while bullets are flying over his head because he is trying to pin-point the best possible solution to overtaking the enemy by using an unreal engine-based computer representation of the battlefield.

<zing!>
<whhrrrr!>
<peekooowwww!>

lieutenant: "private! i need to know if there's any obstruction past this point here.."

<lieutenant points to a pass between a group of boulders>

private with laptop: "alright.... i believe if we take the..."

<nearby explosion goes off>

private with laptop: "..if we take..."

<another loud explosion>

lieutenant: "dammit, use ghost mode and tell me what if we head straight here..."

<private drops to console>
<windows freezes>

private: "the computer's stuck, I must reboot, sir!"

lieutenant: "..."

lieutenant: "give me your gps palm pilot!"

<lieutenant grabs device>

private: "sir, that's my gameboy advance!"

<BIG EXPLOSION>

....




this story is not real. if this story depicts an actual event in the past, present, or future, it is purely coincidental and really really sad.

Huh, this is bigger news than this pesky little post. The United States Army wants gaming engines? Hello, this is huge!

thats why your soldiers suck

The Army is going to learn how to fight the dancing Skarjarri?

marines > army

ofp > unreal

If you pay taxes:
Your Tax Dollars At Work

I guess ID wanted to much money for the license

"yeah it's just propaganda, but it has curved surfaces this time!"

GO ARMY!!