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Second Army-Sponsored Game Comes To Xbox
Shackleford writes "CNN has an article that discusses a new Xbox videogame, the commercial version of an United States Army-sponsored project to train squad leaders in real-life combat tactics. It was developed by Pandemic Studios and the commercial Xbox game is titled "Full Spectrum Warrior" - there's an ad for it here." Here's the official site for the non-commercial console version of Full Spectrum Warrior - is this version intended for internal use only? Obviously, both of these are completely separate titles to America's Army, another Army-sponsored game.
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I heard about that. It was a sequel to that American media tycoon game where you point fingers at france for assisting a force of "evil" while denying all knowledge of the US having sold Saddam weapons years prior...
Sorry, I couldn't resist.
Does this game...
- have British troops in it for a spot of target practice?
- simulate the use of performance "enhancing" drugs?
- have scenarios where troops stand by as national treasures are looted?
- have scenarios where troops stand by as ministries are looted so a few weeks later they can say "well, we can't find any evidence of <whatever> because the documents were destroyed"?
- stage faked rescues so the folks back home have something to cheer about?
etc
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Way to go microsoft. We know it's easy to get most government agencies to work for you if you're a big enough company, but the army?
Every since 'Americas Army: Operations' came out last year (4th of July, but it was extremely un-playable until they removed the McKenna requirement), they had been promising another version of Americas Army- this one entitled 'Soldiers'.
Admittedly, the game looked pretty bad. All you could see of it were a few screenshots of a screen with pictures of 'real' (Not CG) basic training. It was supposed to be a role-playing game that gave you an idea of what the Army was really like.
I had the glorious opportunity to go through basic training TWICE in real life- no, I didn't wash out- I re-joined the Army after a break of 7 years. So I wanted to see how they portrayed it. It's amazing how different the whole thing looks when you aren't young, scared and confused. It was actually a lot of fun- especially when you are older, and have more awards on your Class A's than your drill sergeants. (But it is a little sad too...like "what the hell am I doing here?") (Like the time some guy got really sick from 'salmon loaf' and puked. The drill made him scrape it up, and put the puke in his pocket. 3 days later the moron still had a pocket of dried up puke...I hope they put that stuff in the game!)
Just wondering if they decided to scrap the game- it looked a lot more like a recruiting tool than Operations, just not nearly as much fun.
The recruiters lie anyway, so they might as well tell the kids you'll get to go to exciting places, and shoot people who don't speak the same language, it that is what will get them in.
No reason to lie.
I installed ArmyOps.exe on my win2k partition and
it asked me to "sign up" on a webpage or some such
bullshit so I could register for "basic training".
Fuuuuuuuhuuuuuuck that. the DoD wants me to register
for a fucking game? What do they get out of it?
Promptly uninstalled the game. They seem to be a
little slow in copying the tricks of corporate
America, but it's unnerving nonetheless.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
A subsequent Ad-aware scan after uninstalling the
game found 2 instances of spyware that were not
there before. Big surprise.
For every annoying gentoo user, are three even more annoying anti-gentoo crybabies. Take Yosh from #Gimp for example.
Will it include a "Operation North Korean Freedom" mission in the game?
-- Political fascism requires a Fuhrer.
Someone should ask Pandemic Studios what software they used for the development of this game, and where they purchased said software. I'm sure they would be able to back up those claims with a proof of purchase.
I wonder if the DOD knows where their money went for this title? Software? or pockets...
Makes you wonder.....
Is that your worst? My karma can take it, bring it on...
Cloud City Digital: DVD Production at its cheapest/finest
...and Janet Reno must be thrilled.