Ubisoft Developing Next America's Army Game

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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It Won't Be Free Because of Fucking DRM

[dcocos]

The game won't be free (for download at least) because with out modding you PS2 or X-Box you can't burn your own games. And I consider it a waste of tax dollars to distribute it any other way, thank you DRM mongers!

Re:It Won't Be Free Because of Fucking DRM

[Anonymous Coward]

PS2 and XBox do not explicitly forbid free distribution; they have anti-piracy mechanisms which stop you from using a DVD you burned yourself. The US Army is perfectly capable of making the DVD's themselves and mailing them out or putting them in electronics stores for free (like AOL discs) if they want.

Re:Gonna go out on a limb and say.

[GreyWolf3000]

Who wrote that webpage? Although the images are disturbing, I don't feel like I can trust it. It frequently draws conclusions, and name-calls soldiers.

Don't the insurgents make children fight, anyways? Could the soldiers be talking about killing armed children?

Where does the author even get the quotes? To me, it's entirely possible that those soldiers are made up. I see no documentation or anything.

All the pictures of beat up children are from the cluster bombs--I think the author wants to confuse them and make it look like soldiers are running around leveling legions of children. Even if the quotes from the soldiers were real, I wouldn't be convinced of that by this article.

I'm not pro-war or anything, either.

Re:Free

[game kid]

If ya get this Army thingy fer free yer a terrist!

Offensive Bush impressions aside, I don't expect this to be cheap; it is going to be on the XBox and PS2 and I doubt either system's maker will go sans some dough--but then, that's exactly what I wonder: Do the system makers have to get paid for games licensed/made for their system? I do believe makers sign NDAs, etc. to make sure the system's technology doesn't get leaked to the public *cough*emulator makers*cough*...and besides Ubisoft have made non-free games (and quite a few from a glance of their main page).

Re:Gonna go out on a limb and say.

[JVert]

I think the "bigger issue" is the link at the bottom "The United States Government Committed the September 11 Attacks". If you belive that then you shouldn't have a problem believing the captions for the pictures.

Who said Ubisoft was doing it for free?

[Goosey]

I am not going to venture a stab at if it will be free or not, but I find it a possibility. Certainly Ubisoft won't do it for free, but that doesn't mean that the military won't pay Ubisoft to develope/distribute it for free.

I suppose it depends on if it is still seen primarily as a recruiting tool, which I suppose depends on how successful it has been as a recruiting tool. Some analysis on it's success in that regard would be VERY interesting, to say the least.

Re:Free

[cjsnell]

I'll take the bait.

[Spoken as a former soldier]

If you have an axe to grind, grind it with US politicians, not the US Army. The US Army acts on the orders of their Commander in Chief, the President. The US Army does not make policy, it merely carries it out. Our soldiers are hard working young men and women who chose to serve their country rather than sit around and drink beer "back on the block" with the rest of their generation.

Re:Gonna go out on a limb and say.

[Wraithfighter]

Probably won't be free, but that's because of the distribution costs.

That said, it'll probably cost $5 or thereabouts, simply to recover the manufacturing and distribution costs. The army isn't looking for a profit off of this. Hell, there in enough trouble already with Full Spectrum Warrior.

On a side note, does anyone else find it kinda funny that a French company is making America's Army? Cause, ya know, it has a certain ironic appeal :).