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America’s Army (also known as AA or Army Game Project) is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment.
The PC version 1.0, subtitled Recon, was first released on July 4, 2002. Since then, there have been over 20 updated versions released, the most recent being AA:SF (Overmatch) v2.8.2. It is financed by the U.S. Government and distributed for free. It was originally developed by the MOVES Institute at the Naval Postgraduate School and continues to use the Unreal Engine.
America’s Army has been developed since 2000 and still changes through add-ons and patches. The Windows version can be found as a download on the Internet or as free DVDs at U.S. Army recruiting centers. All versions use Evenbalance’s PunkBuster technology to prevent cheating.
Professor Michael Zyda, the director and founder of the MOVES Institute, acknowledged Counter-Strike as the model for the game.
America’s Army is relatively authentic in terms of visual and acoustic representation of combat, especially pertaining to its depictions of firearm usage and mechanics, but its critics have alleged that it fails to convey wartime conditions as accurately as it claims.
America’s Army is the first computer video game to make recruitment an explicit goal and the first well-known overt use of computer gaming for political aims. The game is used as a playable recruiting tool and critics have charged the game serves as a propaganda device. In reality the game is developed by a regular game company that is funded by the Army. The game has hundreds of genuine hardcore fans and fan websites. The latest version is 2.8.2 which was released on September 6, 2007, with new features, bug fixes, and two new maps including Rummage and SF Hospital SE.
It is pointed out that its recruiting aspect bears resemblance to games in both the movie The Last Starfighter and to the novel Ender’s Game, a popular science fiction story of the 80s.
Its developers state that America’s Army has over 8.6 million registered accounts as of August, 2007, with over 4.8 million having completed the “basic training” part of the game. With several thousand players online at any one time between 2002 and 2007, it ranks in the top 10 FPS (first-person shooter) games played online during the period, as tracked by GameSpy. It was similar in performance to Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory or Medal of Honor, also in the top ten, for much of that time period.
Until recently, the U.S. Army and Icculus had a contract saying that the former would port America’s Army to Mac OS X and Linux (x86 & AMD64) in both client and server versions. |
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