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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 wot.narg · · Score: 4, Funny

    Of course it wont be free. If it was free, all those TERRORISTS! could get it. Then we'd be attacked again, and they'd eat our babies!

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    1. Re:Free by cjsnell · · Score: 4, Interesting

      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.

  2. 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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  3. Re:Gonna go out on a limb and say. by GreyWolf3000 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    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.

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  4. Oh the irony! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    A French company developing a US military recruitment tool.

    1. Re:Oh the irony! by Alarash · · Score: 5, Informative
      Hi,

      Ubisoft is a french from France company, created by the Guillemot brothers. They also possess the Hercules hardware manufacturer (formelly known as the... "Guillemot" brand). Ubisoft also posses GameLoft, a cellphone games developper.

      The company is spread like this:

      - Headquarters are in Montreuil, a city right next to Paris. A few games are developped there, like Rayman. That's also where the websites are designed.
      - European warehouse is located in Bretagne (a France's departement, what you guys in US would call a state althought it's quite different).
      - And last but not least, the main development studio is located in Montreal, Canada. Games like Splinter Cell or Farcry are developped there. This is also where most of Ubi.com teams are located (aka the evil GMs that get you banned in Shadowbane or EverQuest Europe). The reason is that the Canadian government made a very, very good offer to Ubisoft, and as a result it's 40% cheaper for the management to send people there rather than having them work in France (where social security, health care and transports are to be payed at least at 50% by the company, that's the law).

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

    the bill same with the other AA games!