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America's Army 2.0 Available for Linux and OS X
Time Doctor writes "Linux and Mac gamers will be happy to hear that America's Army 2.0 is out of private beta, and available via mirrors at 3DGamers and HappyPuppy, among others. See this news post on the AA site for the gameplay changes." We covered the release of the Windows version of AA 2.0 a couple of weeks back, as this free FPS recruiting tool continues toward its goal of "providing civilians with an inside perspective and a virtual role in today's premiere land force, the U.S. Army."
fwiw, I had trouble getting the download link to work with either IE or Safari in OS X--the link would not present the contextual menu to me that gives the option of "saving to disk", required on this particular download.
However, I found that using the "download manager" in Mac Classic IE worked--I had to chose a previous download, and then change the pointers to the game download info.
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$tar -xvf
The original thought was that the Army did not want user-created levels/weapons/characters to be associated with the Army's game. They were afraid people would create inappropriate scenarios like school terrorism and the such which the Army does not deal with.
That was the original idea, though. And back a while ago they also said we'd never get pistols in game, but we have them now. So you never really know.
And I believe they said they won't release a Devkit during the life of the game. So maybe they'll release one once the team stops working on it, thus extending the life cycle of it.
It's like sex, except I'm having it!
No, the source will not be released. This is a Unreal 2Kx engine license, running pretty much off Epic's latest source with each new release.