E3: Epic, US Army Develop Games as Recruitment Tool

securitas writes "Reuters and AP tell us that Epic Games and the US Army have announced the America's Army series of games, jointly developed by the Department of Defense and Epic. The first two-part game in the five-year project includes an RPG called Soldier and a first-person shooter called Operations. The game will be free of charge and available for download in July or August, with 1.2 million CDs simultaneously released, attached to gaming magazines. Does this remind anyone else of the war-room scene from Toys or Ender's Game?" Future installments will include Sim Mess Duty, Sim Standing Guard in the Rain, Sim Blister, and Sim Invading Iraq to Keep Approval Ratings High.

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Re:Don't Foget This One...

[d^2b]

Umm. How about:

"Sim Risking their Lives to Improve the President's Chances in the Next E(r|l)ection?"

There. Now everybody should be happy. Except
maybe Democrats. Or Republicans.

-- Playing nice with the other children since my
last electroshock treatment

"Sim Invading Iraq to Keep Approval Ratings High"

[PHAEDRU5]

Sick little puppy, aren't you?

You speak a very eloquent truth.

[gaudior]

The fact is, nearly all of the tech-elite teens and twenty-somethings have a deep 'loathing' of the military. They inherited it from :

• Their Hippie parents
• The others of there parent's generation who were shattered by their experience in Vietnam.
• The fact they they have been given everything, without struggle.