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Ubisoft Developing Next America's Army Game

Posted by Zonk on from the france-and-america-working-together-to-serve-you! dept.

altodarknight writes "Ubisoft annouced today that they are developing the new America's Army game: 'America's Army: Rise of a Soldier'. Working with the US Army, it will be released summer 2005 on XBox and PS2. The only question is, will it be free like past AA games?"

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  1. Free by jericho4.0 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Of course it will be free. This is not a game, it's a piece of government funded propaganda, designed to instill a positive opinion of the US military in youth wordwide.

    I played it, and was struck by how many times I died. This seemed highly instructive.

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    "A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis
  2. Re:Gonna go out on a limb and say. by SoCalChris · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Can you really se Ubisoft doing anything for free?

    Something tells me that no software company would do something like that for free.

    If it does turn out to be "free", it will be because it came out of our taxes, just like the previous versions.

  3. Re:Or more importantly... by PKPerson · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I agree, but not as trollishly. The most recent game, while being very realistic, lacks the action of newer games. I'll admit, I'm a sucker for source, but, IMHO, it isnt fun at all with the +8 min rounds. If you happpen to get killes in the first munite or so, you have time for a snack...or two...

    Its just annoying, and compared to other games, even (shutter) halo 2, it cany quite compete. Frcry was great, if a little pricy (this can be expected of new games) and mabey, Ubisoft can pull this off, funded by our (your...I'm still a minor) hard earned taxes.

    I for one, welcome UBIsoft as the devoloper od a new game with a great potential, but ugly, and kinda smelly past.
    (As long as its free, which is a different debate)

    w00t

  4. Of course its not free the us taxpayer is footing by cyrax777 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    the bill same with the other AA games!