More on America's Army

The Marines currently give out a Myst-Like game called Camp Marine. Looks sort of interesting and I got fairly far and then it crashed XP and their site for it is gone, so, oh well!

Fairly nifty though, it's obvious some production values went into it, they had live action marines screaming at you, real puzzle, and the graphics were on par with the original myst. For a free game, pretty cool, but this sounds A LOT cooler.

Look at it THIS way :

Would you rather they recruit like this? *or* Would you rather they draft people?

Besides, if you have ever been on an AFB during peacetime, there is NOTHING to do. They
need some games to play!

God, if I saw more whining and pointless complaining in one board, I'd swear to god I was back on an anti-Daikantana forum. Cry me a river.

I hope they have a ranking system, maybe they'll offer me an instant promition if I can make it into the top 10 in the laddar when they come to recruit me at the address I give them when I sign up for the free software!

What would be even better is if you could win real army weapons for doing well in the laddar. That way, the best players can get some real experience with the real weapons before they're recruited (via the name, address, and phone number they gave them when signing up for the game.

What would be really great is if the actually tracked what weapons you used the most and what weapons you got the most kills with. That way when they come to visit you, they'll already know if you want to be a sniper or an infantryman or an explosives specialist! Go Army!

Look at the bright side. Instead of seeing another dozen army commercials now we get a free game for propaganda. If my tax dollars are going to be spent I prefer video game propaganda to commercial propaganda. Can anyone else refute this?

http://www.avault.com/news/screenshots/armygame10.jpg

I've been looking for a game with quality pushup simulation...

wow, i wonder if someone will come out with a wall hack or aim bot for it?

can anyone say- "ghost recon"?

GO PROPAGANDA!!!!!

http://www.avault.com/news/screenshots/armygame18.jpg

quick, KILL THE ARAB!!

nausiating to say the least.

Is this the game that gives me The Skill and The Will to Kill?

you know your old when you can't even get the 'free' game from them (must be 13-34).

my son will be 13 soon, but if he signs up for it, he will be forever hounded by recruiting officers.

while its a 'smart' idea the army has: make a cool game, and get lots of e-mail/real addresses for potential recruits who already show an interest, its also a bit underhanded. many 13 and up kids wont begin to suspect the massive mail pounding (and recruiters show up at your door unannounced as well) they will get after signing up to get this 'free' game.

go marketing, go army.

Oh come on, it's bad enough when the Marines try to sell recruitment with scenes straight out of a fantasy role-playing game, now the army wants to reach us through video games? I'm suddenly reminded of how so many American troops reacted to the declaration of War in Kuwait: "What? Fight? No, I didn't join the *fighting* army! I wanted money for college!" Granted, they are naive to think that... but it's not like Army gets around to admitting "Uh, we might expect you to kill people... and, oh, by the way, you could die." Instead we get all this "Be all you can be" crap and a bunch of rhetoric about teamwork. Why would I *ever* join the army, knowing that half the people there were too stupid to realize what they were signing up for? Yeah, that's who I want watching *my* back.

omfg the headline is... SHACKTAGGED!

You guys are looking into this waaaay to much.

They're going to waste your tax dollars one way or another-- might as well get a free game out of it.

The problem is, this is hardly a recruitment tactic. The military has been using civilian programming for years. The marines were using variations of flight simulator engines that were incorporated in actual games a decade ago. If I recall, the Marines or Army also licensed the Flashpoint engine for simulators to. The point, look at the new tech coming out for the military, they want their people who will be using to actually be somewhat smart. And not everyone will be using the games engine, I suspect the more specially oriented combat personnel will be subject to it.

well i'm too old and fat for the army, so i guess i get a free game out of it.

can you blame them for tapping into a previously untouched source/demographic? crying about the army using new recruitment tactics is like complaining about microsoft making money.

i think those of you ranting about how weak minded recruits of the military are need to rethink things because those statements are ignorant. some maybe, the majority are not.

I *used* to have recruiters hound me ALL THE TIME!

"Do you have plans after high school?"

I told them I was a faggot and they never called me again.

http://www.avault.com/news/screenshots/armygame6.jpg

ROFL, look on the bulletin board, right at the end of the pointman's outstretched index finger. Fun to see that the Army has a sense of humor.

I'm sure this has been pointed out, BUT, if the army was trying to recruit people WHY ARE THEY AIMING FOR THE PASTY WHITE FEEBLE BODY GAMERS?

ok i just went from "eh ok" to "OMFG SWEET" http://www.avault.com/news/avscreenshots.asp?pic=armygame&num=7&story=http://www.shacknews.com/ barrett m82a1, ive wanted one of these since delta force.

These guys can be desperate for recruits. I was stopped by a marine in the student parking lot once and they wouldn't stop calling me for like 2/3 months, even though I told them every time that I wasn't interested. My local army recruiters were also giving away free snowboards and pizza to high schoolers if they attended a meeting with one of them.

Just took a look at those screenshots.

It's really nice to know that my taxpayer dollars are being used to develop a VIDEO GAME that tries to be a marketing gimmick to get people to join the US Army.

The screenshots show people dying but no blood. I wonder if the game will also show the intense emotional trauma that people on the battlefield suffer, or the underhanded political techniques that get a country's citizens sent into war in the first place.

I wonder if the game will have realistic sounds at realistic levels, so that prospective American soldiers will know exactly how loud a gun is when it fires, or realistic physics to show how hard it kicks, or realistic fatigue systems to show how tired you will be after running miles upon miles with fifty pounds of gear on your back.

I wonder if your enemies will scream and cry when they are shot or knifed, if they will beg for their lives (or if the player will have an option to beg for his). I wonder if there will be a key you can press to bring up a tourniquet and cut off the circulation to your leg when you are shot in the hip so that you don't bleed to death.

I wonder if it will disable the player for the rest of his life if he gets shot, or if the screen will flash red and then you will have to start the game over.

I wonder how well this game will prepare people for the realities of war.

If it's any good it's got to bum out the developers that aren't government subsidized. It may be a stretch but if it's popular, wouldn't it dilute the market for the Opposing Force/SoF/CS (ConditionZero, not the mod, yeah thats free anyway I know) /etc type games?

cant complain about free games!

why do I get the feeling that such a product will only lend credence to the murder simulator/won't someone please think of the children argument.

The marine isnt even looking where he is shooting in that screenshot... He's looking right at the camera. OK that's pretty scary.

Gack. Propaganda city. The public already thinks war is one big video game.

I know you people read Ender's Game.

I wouldn't be surprised that somehow buying or playing this game results in a call from your friendly local recruiter.

uh...

www.shacknews.com/fileshack

so in the future the next time two countries have a beef with each other maybe they'll just hook up a lan and frag...cool.

".. today's premier land force, the U.S. Army. "

No.
US Army would be "premier sky force" while other nations fight land wars (Russians, coalition partners, Canadians :)..)

Please change that, thanks!

If I join the army and I die will I respawn in a new map?

I bet it installs spyware.

All wars should be resolved virtually.

No travelling to foreign lands were everyone and their camel wants to kill you, no horrible disabling wounds, no PTSD, no 'collateral damage', no one gets killed and all us FPS gamers would become national heroes.

It's fun too!

Now why wont this game have a realistic demage system like SoF II's??

Just wondering :)