Army Discusses MMO Troop Training Sim

An anonymous reader writes "Over at GameSpot, there's an interview with Dr. Michael Macedonia of the U.S. Army about the AWE training sim, a 'massively multiplayer simulation [based on the There 'virtual world' game engine] that will be used by military personnel to train troops in urban situations before they are airlifted to a battle zone.' Macedonia says 'We built downtown Baghdad in this environment', and also says 'we call our games tactical decision aids. Our thing is not making people shoot better; it's making people think better.'" We previously featured an initial announcement of this project in January.

Comments

Re:What can't they simulate?

[peragrin]

boy are you a dumb shit. he have lost what 500-600 soldiers. How many tens of thousands of iraqi's have died???. the US maintains a killing ratio of hunderds of you to one of ours.

The US also put Saddam in place. Vice President George Bush did it in the 1980's.

Yes the bulk of us don't understand the middle eastern Cultures, And we are content in our perfect little worlds. If that makes you jealous that we can be happy while you die for your ignorant religion(not just Isalm)then change. Our parents fought and died to bring a generation of peace within our borders. If all Islam teaches is to be a power hungry, mentally challgened idiot than i am glad I am not Muslim.

Now the question is are you going to fight me on what Islam is, or you going to open your Eyes and change parts of it. Praying everyday is good for the soul, forcing half of your population into slavery(women)because they are dirty is not.

Crossing the line

[tkarr]

I think this crosses the line. Here we are telling kids that the games are not real life, and then the military comes in and says "hey you can kill people in a game, and then kill them in real life!!" Someone's probably going to build one of a school or US building and then think it's ok to go shoot people there. I'm not saying all people are unintelligent, but there are some people out there who will take this game the wrong way.

Re:Well...

[Junior J. Junior III]

So, let's just be clear on this:

When America holds the world hostage with 20,000 nuclear warheads, that's "protecting freedom".

When some guy straps explosives to himself, and does the same thing on a smaller scale, that's "terrorism".

So legitimacy is all about how big and powerful you are? Nice...