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America's Army on Linux

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the free-combat-simulators dept.

jojor writes "It seems that icculus.org has gotten America's Army to run under Linux, as this screenshot will attest. America's Army is UT based and free (as in beer). More games for Linux, yippeh!" Awesome. I consider America's Army to be one of the best things my government has funded within recent history.

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  1. Unreal 2 based by xmnemonic · · Score: 4, Informative

    It is based off of the Unreal 2 engine, it is not based off of the game Unreal Tournament.

    1. Re:Unreal 2 based by damiam · · Score: 4, Informative

      Unreal 2 is just a later build of the UT engine.

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    2. Re:Unreal 2 based by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      It is based on Epics Unreal Engine. Not UT or Unreal 2 engine. It is a more advanced build than the UT engine, but a build or so before UT2003 and U2. BTW Splinter Cell was also based on the Unreal Engine, that was a build before UT2003, and so was Raven Shield on the Rainbow Six series.

      That is all.

  2. Re:Argh! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Not to flame you or anything but you do realize that the game only cost about $7 million to produce (at least according to Wired). You couldn't really do anything worthwhile in education or healthcare with only $7 million. As far as recruitment for the army goes $7 million is only probably about the amount the army spends on those "army of one" recruitment ads on TV in a week so no big waste of funds there. Now if you're trying to say that spending money to recruit people into the army is a waste of money, well that's a completly different conversation entirely.

  3. Re:Why? - Military Pay by tarogue · · Score: 3, Informative

    How much money do you really think an 18 y/o fresh out high school needs?

    Base rate for an E-1 w/ under four months service (as of January 2003) is 1,064.70 per mo. That means that as soon as you join, you get get paid over $1,000 a month gross income with no expenses (besides taxes). All that money is yours to sepnd how ever you want. No rent to pay, no food to buy, no utilities to pay.

    And very few people ever get enlisted as E-1 anymore. E-2 starts at $1,290.00, E-3 is 1,356.90, and E-4 is 1,502.70.

    That's all base rates. Then you can add in cost of living allowances, basic allowance for housing, etc., it adds up to a lot of money. And if you fill out the right paperwork, you won't pay any state income taxes.

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