America's Army - Special Forces Released

Thanks to the official site for news of the release of PC FPS/recruitment tool, America's Army - Special Forces, with download locations for the Windows client listed by Blue's News, as this "...latest release in the [freely downloadable] America's Army game series focuses on the critical, specialized role of the Army's Special Forces within the U.S. Army as they fight the Global War on Terrorism." GameSpot has a press release revealing the new missions include "...a Combat Search And Rescue (CSAR) of a downed helicopter pilot, the rescue of a wounded Resistance leader from a hospital in an urban area, a nighttime reconnaissance mission to identify enemy aviation." Previous Slashdot articles have revealed the apparent success of the game in recruiting young people to the Army.

Comments

Bittorrent link

[c.r.o.c.o]

Since all the ftp servers are probably overloaded right now, here's the bittorrent link. I'm getting about 30kbps up/down, so it's not too bad.

http://www.3dgamers.com/dlexit/torrent/games/ame ri casarmy/armyops200.exe.html

Re:Bittorrent link

[woobieman29]

The Mac and (unfortunately for me) Linux versions are not available yet. Release of these ports is "To Be Announced"... :-(

Draft

[Michael.Forman]

Unlike reality, at least they're not thinking of randomly forcing people to play the game.

Michael

Bit Torrent Link for AA 1.9 to 2.0 Upgrade

[AIX-Hood]

Bit Torrent link for the 1.9 to 2.0 Upgrade. You need to have 1.9 already for this 223 meg upgrade to work. Filerush'll have the full one up in a bit. http://www.filerush.com/torrents/aao_patch_190to20 0.exe.torrent

Re:FPS or FUD?

[BrookHarty]

No where in this game that makes political statements. Its all defend or attack based roles. It doesnt just include sand missions, but snow, mountains and camps. I dont think you played it, or you would know this game has nothing to do with the war on Terror, or the war in Iraq.

BTW, as a combat sims goes, its pretty good. Team based, and honor rating. Uses the latest Unreal200x engine, in fact was the first game out to use the engine. Give it a try, you wont see any the political FUD you think. Sitting through the medial training was boring, but helps out in the game.

If you want FUD, cheesy game out this summer, Cave Fighter or something, where you did fight in Afghanistan. But the game was so horrible visually, and game play, it was in 4.99 bin the 2nd month out.
It was so bad, I can't even remember the name.

Re:Recruiting tool or mission analyzer?

[darkmayo]

From what I recall you don;t respawn in America's Army.. you die.. your dead until that round is over. So you don't want to die because its boring as hell.

You should play the game first before making a witty reply.