An Army of One… Only $.25

Posted by Matt Cipriano | 1 Comment

Have you heard of “America’s Army?”

It’s a video game designed by the Army that serves a couple of functions. It previously was only available for download, so right off the bat, they could identify you as some one with an interest in the army. The it got you used to the armies language, tools, machines, and mind set. if you downloaded enough episodes of the game you could even play with teams online, building a nice dynamic group of folks interested in the army who had the most basic of basic training in an effort to indoctrinate them into the army.

There have been a number of iterations of “America’s Army” (your tax dollars at work to build a bigger and better video game). Now, due to its popularity, you can not only download the game for free, but as Arcade Heroes reports to us, you can pay $.25 (okay, well the last time I paid to play an arcade game it was $.25 I am sure it will cost you at least $.50 if not more) to play it. Global VR is working with the U.S. Army to design and release an coin-op arcade game based on “America’s Army.”

There are a few questions to be to be asked in relation to this game, both supporting it and bashing it, like why is the military paying to develop video games is the military that strapped for cash that they need to resort to video games? and- this can’t be serious, can it? (apparently I can only think of negative questions, but I am sure there are some positive ones out there). This just seems like a total misappropriation of my tax dollars to me.

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