Second Army-Sponsored Game Comes To Xbox

Shackleford writes "CNN has an article that discusses a new Xbox videogame, the commercial version of an United States Army-sponsored project to train squad leaders in real-life combat tactics. It was developed by Pandemic Studios and the commercial Xbox game is titled "Full Spectrum Warrior" - there's an ad for it here." Here's the official site for the non-commercial console version of Full Spectrum Warrior - is this version intended for internal use only? Obviously, both of these are completely separate titles to America's Army, another Army-sponsored game.

Re:French version.

[heldlikesound]

Is that your worst? My karma can take it, bring it on...

Does this game...

[Captain Pedantic]

Does this game...

- have British troops in it for a spot of target practice?

- simulate the use of performance "enhancing" drugs?

- have scenarios where troops stand by as national treasures are looted?

- have scenarios where troops stand by as ministries are looted so a few weeks later they can say "well, we can't find any evidence of <whatever> because the documents were destroyed"?

- stage faked rescues so the folks back home have something to cheer about?

etc

Re:Does this game...

[SN74S181]

You're thinking of 'The Sims At Peace Rally' where the Trotskyites sell newspapers, while the hippie-wannas relive yet one more time a myth of what 'The Sixties' were 'really all about.'

Within that game is a parody subplot which includes your bullet points. The key, though, is that it's a flashback sequence, like on Gilligan's Island, of something that never was.

Re:Does this game...

[darkov]

Yes, but only in the "Constructions of the Liberal Media Conspiracy" mode.

Re:Does this game...

[Dolly_Llama]

No Brits, but Canadians make fine stand-ins. bonus for taking their beer afterward.

So now the army is joining the console war?

[lightspawn]

Way to go microsoft. We know it's easy to get most government agencies to work for you if you're a big enough company, but the army?

What happened to 'Soldiers'

[bigman2003]

Every since 'Americas Army: Operations' came out last year (4th of July, but it was extremely un-playable until they removed the McKenna requirement), they had been promising another version of Americas Army- this one entitled 'Soldiers'.

Admittedly, the game looked pretty bad. All you could see of it were a few screenshots of a screen with pictures of 'real' (Not CG) basic training. It was supposed to be a role-playing game that gave you an idea of what the Army was really like.

I had the glorious opport

All I know is...

[Sevn]

I installed ArmyOps.exe on my win2k partition and
it asked me to "sign up" on a webpage or some such
bullshit so I could register for "basic training".
Fuuuuuuuhuuuuuuck that. the DoD wants me to register
for a fucking game? What do they get out of it?
Promptly uninstalled the game. They seem to be a
little slow in copying the tricks of corporate
America, but it's unnerving nonetheless.

Oh, and another note....

[Sevn]

A subsequent Ad-aware scan after uninstalling the
game found 2 instances of spyware that were not
there before. Big surprise.

Maybe it's a preview

[Prien715]

Will it include a "Operation North Korean Freedom" mission in the game?

us picks msft

[mandalayx]

...and Janet Reno must be thrilled.

Re:us picks msft

[spumoni_fettuccini]

Well yeah... inbetween games you use the controllers to curl 20 reps and then bench the X-box for 10 reps. After serious consideration the Army went with the best console suited for the gym.