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Officers in the US Army have invested $50 million toward the development of video games, and a gaming system, designed to train soldiers for combat, Stripes.com reports.
Starting in 2010, Army developers will implement this program, hoping to build on the success of the training game 'DARWARS Ambush.' Like 'Ambush,' these products will be available to the general public, although Lt. Col. Gary Stephens states that the Army neither expects nor intends to "become a competitor with the commercial gaming industry."
With the new platform and games, Army programmers hope to offer more life-like reproductions of battlefield scenarios, offering editable terrains, a greater capacity for multi-player action and larger battlefields. They intend that games will also be compatible with actual military communications equipment.
With the Army's recent embrace of vidcasts and robots, this news should not be a surprise to anybody, and should be a boon to civilian fans of military games. [From: Stripes.com]
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Subscribe to commentsBbarry2wheelsNov 24th 2008 6:57PM
This is more Waste FAT for the Military/Industrial Complex. This particular aspect of War Profiteering is aka The Simulation Training Industry, and it has gobbled up approximately $40-50 Billion in VideoGame Training contracts over the past few years.
Imagine that--Play vido games to get ready for life-and-death combat. Meanwhile, Army Basic Training was cut to 9 weeks. Whereupon it was discovered that the new GIs were not in physical shape for war, and they didn't know how to handle their weapons safely and with necessary skill.
So, the Army upped Basic by one week, then was forced to cut that back again--Because with two wars going, there was a shortage of troops for Iraq and Afghanistan.
By all means, you Pentagon Fools--More kiddie games for the hapless cannon fodder! :-( The enmy is within...
Victoria GriffensNov 25th 2008 1:17AM
Wells, i think its going to be good, more -real life like experience for soilders lol only they dont get to die in games like they do in Real life, but surely more experience!!
KelticNov 25th 2008 5:38AM
These are called simulators people! I trained on a M1A1 tank simulator before operating a real tank in order to become familiar with the instruments cluster and arrangements. Pilots have flight simulators for these reasons also. I myself would rather learn from a simulator first before being trusted with the real thing. It is way more cost effective than just throwing someone into a real tank and they damage it by crashing it or something. Really, for a simulator, 50 million is really not that expensive compared to an almost billion dollar piece of equiptment!
JustinNov 27th 2008 10:13PM
Anyone heard of Ender's Game? the book im sure many have read it but this sounds almost like that except we're not having facilities in space and all that...either way has anyone ever played the free army demo games and gotten a call before?