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America's Army Recon

by Steve Gibson, Jul 03, 2002 5:59pm PDT

Well I guess the US Army had to one-up the game developer community. In a land where things are consistently late, it looks like the America's Army: Operations demo just came out a bit early. You can grab the demo as always at FileShack courtesy of Speakeasy. I'm in the middle of some server maintenance though and wasnt really quite ready for this, so you'll probably experience a 10-25 second delay waiting for the download dialog to pop up. Sorry about that, the download should work fine though. Here's a bunch of screenshots taken by Maarten

Click to enlarge- FileShack via Speakeasy - FilePlanet mirror - NVidia mirror - Screenshots - Official website

IMPORTANT NOTE: You will not be able to play this online until 2AM CDT. However, there are some single player training missions to play through before you go online to play anyways. Get those outa the way this evening. Thanks HomeLAN


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    By: seven x
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    I'm curious to see what impact this game will have on traditional developers. A free high quality squad/class based multiplayer game with a high level of policing and accountability for players, with an effectively unlimited development budget that uses a modern and seemingly robust 3D engine.

    Were I in the process of creating a game of this ilk, I'd be rather concerned for its marketability in competition with AA.

    This seems to be a fairly high quality title (so far). From what I can see it's attempting to address the major of issue currently plaguing FPS (lack of individual accountability). It undoubtably has an appeal due to the price, and also I would find it difficult to believe that the current patriotism that has been stirred recently goes some way to also adding to its appeal.

    Maybe this might raise the bar for what to expect from multiplayer FPS in the future. It would seem they have the budget and the motivation to make this title 'work', regardless of what any players try to do to stop it.
    Jul 04, 2002 5:21am PDT
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    By: wumpscut x
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    My opinions of this game?

    Well, so far there is a lot of idiots who play it/endorse it.
    People who play, really enjoy shooting team mates ... no one is really helpful, there is a lot of comparing it to CS (OMG a game based on the army must be stolen from CS, they are so different and all ...).

    Well, don't let all hope be lost there. The game is INCREDIBLE ...
    1600x1200 everything maxed 4x AntiAliasing, 8x anisotropic (I was concerned about jaggies until I turned these on...) game is just jawdroppingly beautiful, almost photo-realistic (pipeline level is superb!) This is online, with almost no lag ... they really did a great job with this game.

    I don't know why people were worried about the terrorist/army thing being a big deal, you don't even notice it. You think they are playing terrorists, and you're playing army whereas they're playing army and you're playing terrorists (to them). Weapons drop people pretty quick, a lot more realistic than games similiar to it. You feel a real sense of accomplishment when you and a few buddies actually do the objectives ... I see this game being a huge contender for the new breed of online FPS.

    Enemies are kind of hard to see in a lot of areas and there is a few bugs that kind of ruin the game and it's on GameSpy ... but wow, what a game! I just can't wait to see what kind of updates they do as the game progresses, hopefully they add medics and other types of stuff like that. Already see in the classes section 2 slots for sniper m82 and m24 ... so that means, barrett M82? Oh my ... that's gonna be nice.

    THIS GAME IS GOOD don't listen to naysayers!
    Crank the graphics, turn up your antialisting/anisotropic if you can ... it's real purdy. I
    don't know if turning on detailtextures helped but it looks great.
    Jul 04, 2002 3:53am PDT