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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. Bittorrent link by c.r.o.c.o · · Score: 3, Informative

    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

  2. Fight on Terror? by igny · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I would prefer Air Force's simulators. I really want to feel how F16 or F117 fighter feels like... Some people might like Navy's... When will NASA start popularizing themselves with free simulators?

    --
    In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is. - Yogi Berra
  3. Recruiting tool or mission analyzer? by Baron_Yam · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It seems to me that building a mission and having thousands of real people have a go at finishing it would be a great simulator for planning a REAL mission. But hey, that's just me.

    1. Re:Recruiting tool or mission analyzer? by darkmayo · · Score: 3, Informative

      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.

      --
      "I am a kernel in the linux army"
  4. Re:This is so fucked up by ChaoticLimbs · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Ha ha. Innovation at its finest- A leftist liberal who hates the military and George W. Bush. Your post seethes with youthful hatred of the military. Maybe I am more sensitive to it as a veteran. Who knows.
    Let me enlighten you a bit- there are bad men out there in the real world (outside the US), and they do some very bad things to other people. The human animal can be the worst one in many ways, and ignoring them does not make them stop. In some cases, you have to kill them. Arguing in a forum will not change it. Protest signs won't change it. Sometimes you just have to kill people and break things.