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The US Army did a bunch of recruiting to teenagers like this, successfully. Work for us, it's just like Call of Duty! They had their own branded FPS even.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America%27s_Army ?

I played this game! It was a buggy mess and really unintuitive compared to battlefield.

>I played this game! It was a buggy mess and really unintuitive compared to battlefield.

America's Army was actually a pretty respectable FPS at the time and had it's own niche in the gaming community. There was a huge hole in the market in the early 2000s for anything realistic modern warfare related; CounterStrike was pretty much it. Everything else was stuck in the WW2 fad (CoD 1/2, MoH, Red Orchestra, BF1942) or pure fantasy (Doom/Quake/Tribes/Halo etc.)

Seconding this. America's Army (AA) was very popular and well liked, especially because it was free IIRC. Medal of Honor:Allied Assault is another addition to the above list.

I miss Tribes

Tribes, Tribes Renegades, and Tribes Ultra Renegades were some of the most fun I've ever had in videogames.

I dunno. If I woke up on a battlefield the first thing I’d probably do is poke my head up to figure out what’s going on and doubtless, I’d be immediately killed.

Americas Army was the most intuitive game I ever played.

Just like real war…

Fog, fog, and more fog.

I wonder how much money and headache could've been saved over the years had the DoD simply paid Activision to low key disparage financing vehicles at 20% APR and "dating" strippers in its relevant game franchises.

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