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America's Army Comes to the Mac

Posted by pudge on from the mmm-aggots dept.

mrpuffypants writes "Not to leave all of the Mac community out in the rain the U.S. Army has released a Mac version of America's Army. Now get out there and train for Iraq, maggots!"

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  1. Why.... by ae0nflx · · Score: 3, Interesting

    This seems like a rather bad idea on the army's part, in my opinion. I would think that since Apple has such a small slice of the market share that they would not even bother with a release, and more importantly, I wouldn't expect as many Mac users would be potential conscripts. I don't have any hard evidence for that, but considering myself (a long time mac user) and most of the other appleholics that i know, the mac user/pacifist overlap is pretty large...

    I bet the fed is finally trying to convert us sunflower-loving hippies using a really cool game. So. Tempting. Must. Resist. Cool. FPS.

  2. Has to be said... by Llywelyn · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Come on, you apes! You wanta live forever?

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  3. Here's a .torrent by jamie · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Found this in a comment to the story on insidemacgames.com:

    http://www.bigfatonline.com/armyops-mac-170.tar.bz 2.torrent

    I had grabbed the first half of it from an official mirror before I gave up and went to the torrent, so I can guarantee that if it's trojaned, it's trojaned in the second half :)

  4. Foreign players = demagogue's dream by Durindana · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Just played for a bit (I'm not saying what time zone I'm in!) and my first impression was surprise at the languages being used in chat.

    I know non-English-speakers are not unusual in FPS games, of course. But something about the in-your-face stridence of American military machismo in the game made it an odd cognitive dissonance.

    I can see a Huey Long (or Joe McCarthy) figure showing a screenshot of dudes blasting people with their m1a4 or whatever, talking in Czech... and then McCarthy lambasting the Army for training the next generation of terrorists.

    Or do I just need my morning coffee?

  5. Re:The Last Starfighter by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I dunno. We have a TV series here in the UK called "Faking It' where someone goes from their real job to something else, with a bit of training, and then tries to fool a panel of experts into thinking they're the real deal. For example, a house painter becomes an artist and tries to fool the critics.

    Anyhow, one episode had a bloke who tests video games (as a job!!), particularly racing games, being trained up as a proper racing driver in one of the UK's top racing schools. To cut a long story short, he was crap - he could race the best on GT, but didn't have a clue how to drive a car quickly in real life....

  6. Remember to wear your B.R.A.S. maggots! by pvera · · Score: 2, Interesting

    B.R.A.S. =
    Breathe
    Relax
    Aim
    Squeeze

    At least that was the mantra for basic rifle marksmanship when I went thru Army Basic Training almost 11 yrs ago. The way you practice this is by dry-firing the M16A2 (I actually had an A1 issued by accident but the bastards caught me on my first day out in the range, dammit!). You put a dime on top of the deflector and you try to squeeze the trigger without dropping the penny.

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