America's army manages to pull off a great non-commercial game, even though the online community isn't what I hoped for.
The bad: Graphical glitches, Flash bang is so realistic it can get very annoying.
And the UGLY: Online community is awful ( Almost like they're all eight year olds. ) ________________________________________
With the tough conflicts on the eastern side of the world, America needed something to get the community's attention and say, " Hey! Join the Army! ". They then realised the sheer number of people who played online First Person Shooters daily... Thus spawned the realistic war, simulation FPS that is, America's Army. First, there is a very heavy tutorial system in this game, that's what half the game is, training to play the game. But in my opinion, this is the best part of the game. I just loved going through the different training sessions, it really did feel like I was a solider in training. Just getting yelled at by the instructors is enough to download this game. Also the graphics are pretty decent at high medium - high settings, but they are not gonna make you go " Wow! ". Plus there are a few graphical errors, but they don't deserve to bring the game down. The weapons are excellent, they all look and sound like they should. All of them. Sometimes so realistic that it makes you wanna touch them for real, this is probably what they intended. I really want to touch a rifle now, and what better way to do that then to join the Army? While the realistic gameplay is great, it could also be your throw off. This isn't Battlefield 2 realistic, this is life-like realistic. Your weapons can jam, you breath and it effects every weapon. And when they say flash bang, they mean it! It's so annoying to get hit by a flashbang in this game, your character becomes so disoriented that he practically can't walk until the worst is over. Which takes about 1 minute!. It's realistic, but not fun.
And while this may be an online game, the community doesn't do a very good job of promoting that. They are pretty much made out of: Cry babies, Smart asses, and most are just down right dumb. But not every server is like this, the good ones will be very enjoyable and you will feel like you are in a squad fighting terrorism.
Overall America's Army is a decent non-commercial game. You can download it, or go to your local Army recruitment score and pick it up in a installation disk. See you on the battle field solider!
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