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America's Army - Special Forces Released

Posted by simoniker on from the digitally-recruited dept.

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.

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  1. This is so fucked up by drix · · Score: 2, Insightful

    What an ingenious way to snooker thousands of unsuspecting children into signing their lives away to a life of killing. If the KKK, Michigan Militia, or some other militant fringe-group released recruiting software (I think I remember a Tom Clancy book about that), we'd all be watching day 27 of the standoff live on CNN right now. Yet when it's done by the Army, even better with your money, everyone says it's a wonderful recruiting idea. When Mortal Kombat splattered gallons of cartoonish blood on the screen, the very same politicans who are complicit in the development of this game called for that one's censorship. Yet the government itself releases a game that's infinitely more realistic with the goal of getting its players to actually kill in real life, and what's word from Capitol Hill? Free trade with China. Idiots and hypocrits, they...

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    1. Re:This is so fucked up by Saganaga · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Give me a break. Get out of your fantasy world and join the rest of us in a world where evil exists and we need our military more than ever. Thank God for the men and women who are willing to give their lives to protect our life and liberty, including those of dumb ingrates like you.