Army Discusses MMO Troop Training Sim 401
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.
Killem in a better way. yeah... (Score:1, Funny)
Get rich quick... (Score:5, Funny)
Any takers, they are rarer than the admins would lead you to believe!
Does this mean that (Score:5, Funny)
New MMO? (Score:4, Funny)
Uh oh (Score:5, Funny)
cheaters (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Uh oh (Score:3, Funny)
Boy was he astounded when all the rocket-jump training didn't work as planned.
Re:New MMO? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Well... (Score:4, Funny)
The Army is for grunts anyway... (Score:2, Funny)
There engine (Score:2, Funny)
Cool.
From what I've seen, this isn't very realistic... (Score:5, Funny)
There are no rocket jumps, no teleporters, no rail guns, no quad damage...you can't even capture the enemy flag for god's sake!
Doesn't sound very real to me...
AWESOM-O 4000. (Score:3, Funny)
woohoo! (Score:3, Funny)
And in a related story... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Not funny- it's happened (Score:2, Funny)
Holy crap. Why are we wasting money on Iraq and missile defense??? Give me a submarine tank!