U.S. Army: Video games to train soldiers
Posted by malebolgia on 18 May 2003 - 12:39 · 8 comments & 759 views
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#1 Posted by Solarix on 18 May 2003 - 16:27
- havent they been doing this?
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#2 Posted by GeForceFX on 18 May 2003 - 16:52
- probably
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#3 Posted by blackice912 on 18 May 2003 - 20:12
- And isn't it called America's Army?
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#4 Posted by Goalie_CA on 18 May 2003 - 21:05
- Gentoo (linu
released a free version of the livecd for this game. STick the cd in your pc, boot, and play.
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#5 Posted by Zoneblitz61 on 18 May 2003 - 23:39
- America's Army and what they use for training are two completely different things. For one thing in AA you can get shot like 6 times before you die, in real life you'd prolly be laying down, incapacitated, after just being shot once if it didnt kill you. And the training video games they use are more realistic, so real that theres little air blowers that will blow a puff of air at you to give the feel of bullets whizzing past you in combat. Also, your controller is a replica of a real M16 or whatever weapon you are using for training.
For the past year, the Army has been handing out free games as part of its recruiting efforts, but in the coming months it will also turn to a video game to train squad leaders in real-life combat tactics.
"If you enroll in the army of the future, you'll get your helmet, your gun and one of these discs," said Wil Stahl, a game designer at Pandemic Studios who led the three-year project to develop the game based on the Army's requirements.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City
"Graphic Corruption Fix"
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*** Users who DO NOT have this corruption NEED NOT apply this patch ***
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Contents:
Zip file "Vicepatch_11.zip" containing:
- ViceCity_Patch_11.exe
- ReadmeNOW.txt (this file)
Installation
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- Unzip file.
- ** OPTIONAL ** make a copy of your original GTA-VC.EXE file (from the directory the you installed Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, for when this issue is fixed with a driver update, and you would like to revert to the original version).
- Start ViceCity_Patch_11.exe.
- After clicking next twice, browse to your installed Grand Theft Auto: Vice City directory (the directory where GTA-VC.EXE resides) and click next.
- The patch will check for the presence of the correct GTA-VC.EXE file. If the patch finds an un-modified GTA-VC.EXE, then this file will be updated to version 1.1, otherwise no patching can occur.
- Click start to begin the update process.
- After patching click exit.
The only file changed by this patch is GTA-VC.EXE which is upgraded to version 1.1
Save game and setting files are carried forward with no issues.
This fix is an UN-SUPPORTED update that corrects polygon corruption that has been noticed on certain video cards and PC combinations.
This is the only change that has been made from your original version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.
*** Users who DO NOT have this corruption NEED NOT apply this patch ***