War Games: The Army's Teen Arsenal

"America's Army" and more government shooter game lures.
1 in 4: Proportion of males between 13 and 24 who have played America's Army, the 7-year-old shooter game that launched its 3rd version in June. The free download has 10 million registered users; players are 29% more likely to be interested in military service.
14,500 square feet: Size of the Army Experience Center, an arcade with banks of shooter games, Black Hawk and Humvee simulators, and free wifi that opened in a Philadelphia mall in August 2008. Staffed by 20 Army recruiters, some in civvies, it's open to visitors of all ages.
$1.3 million: Amount the Army spent to sponsor the hit Xbox game Halo 3. At a launch event at a New Hampshire gaming store, an Air Force recruiter explained, "Our target market is identical to that of video game stores."
5 miles: Amount of data cable inside the Virtual Army Experience, a "virtual test drive of the United States Army" that tours fairs and festivals around the country. Visitors can participate in a simulated attack on a "genocidal faction in the notional city of Nradreg," all under a giant inflatable dome.
145,000: Questions per month answered by Sgt. Star, GoArmy.com's virtual tour guide. Asked about his taste in music, the camo-clad avatar replies, "I like everything from the classics to hip-hop to the occasional show tune."
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Come watch us shut down the Army Experience Center
Well, something you didn't mention in your story was the work by anti-war/counter-recruitment activists over the last 6 months protesting the insidious AEC in the Franklin Mills Mall. check it out at www.shutdowntheaec.net, and please come and join us for another spirited protest on September 12th! If we allow the DoD to keep funding this type of horror, it's our fault if it spreads and no one elses.
Inever heard of this
Inever heard of this game,where can I buy it?
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I want to see the expansion modules for America's Army, including 'Bad Duty Assignment ', where the crooks in supply steal all your gear and try to sell it on the black market, and all the officers spend all day trading defense stocks online instead of doing their jobs, 'work detail', where it's just you, hand implements, 5 buddies, and 18 acres of brush to cut, 'incompetent supervisor', where you've got an idiot giving you orders and there's nothing you can do about it, 'Armytown: Bad Neighborhood', where you have to dodge bullets and used car salesmen all the way to your duty post from your apartment, or 'child support payroll deduction', 3 hours in the finance office from hell where half your earnings go to some lady that dumped you as soon as she found out she was pregnant, and the 'numma-one G.I.' level(second level of child support payroll deduction, with foreign language support), and 'virtual court-martial'. For added fun, include 'lowest bidder', where the guns and trucks fall apart in your hands, and a perennial favorite, 'paperwork', where you can utilize your texting skills to fill out page after page of reports and questionnairest, where any error means you have to replay the entire level, 'lifer', where your fellow soldiers stab you in the back and talk smack about you to get awards and promotions and get out of work, with a second companion level called 'friendly fire', where disgruntled fellow soldiers start shooting each other for no apparent reason, this level also known as 'last man standing', 'cutbacks', where a junior Boss-officer-bot chases you around with discharge papers, then 'convoy', a marathon level of 11 hours of hour after hour after hour of vast expanses of almost featureless countryside where you have to fight falling asleep, attacking villagers, and flat tires, and the final challenge level, 'crooked recruiter', where you have to fight your way to freedom out of the recruiting station bare-handed, while a mafia of recruiting-bots and the Mega-Boss Recruiter try to physically coerce you and bribe you with dope, underage hookers, and wads of cash to sign a contract. Of course that would probably be TOO much reality, and not enough edge-of-your-seat shoot-em-up action, and the kids would go play some other video game instead. Like, Pong, Pac-Man, or Donkey Kong, old-style games without machine guns in them.
There's a lot more to the military than just shooting up the place, but can they fit it all into a video game? Would you want to?
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so ask
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