It's already released http://www.americasarmy.com I play it, although it's still buggy, and yes you can kill all your teammates :)
As to the ethical issues...well the Army's job is killing right? -- Jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 1:21:59 PM, you wrote: GM> Did anyone read about this in PCGamer? GM> The US Army is developing its own mil-sim game to distribute for GM> free as a recruiting tool. Apparently they are using their own GM> compsci types and contracting some industry big names to do it. If GM> it ever makes it to release it should be incredible. GM> Doesn't this raise some ethical issues though? Sure everyone in GM> the gamer industry treats killing as a game, but is it over the line GM> when the US Army does it? Just throwing this out there as a GM> conversation starter. GM> I wonder if in the game you can poison your own troops and deal in GM> arms with 'unfriendly' nations? Hmmm...... ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
