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Army Wants 'First-Person Thinker' Video Game
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Posted by Donster on: 2008-07-23 17:15:25 366
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By David Axe @ DANGER ROOM
Video games are all the rage in the U.S. Army. America's Army, a first-person shooter, is used as a recruiting tool to lure in kids weaned on Xbox. For simulating convoy-protection operations, the Army has Ambush!, another shooter. And Tactical Iraqi simulates encounters between soldiers and Iraqis to teach basic language and cultural skills. Dr. Robert Wisher, from the Pentagon's Advanced Distributed Learning Initiative, told DANGER ROOM that the U.S. military has formally adopted 23 different video games.
But almost all of them are street-level, tactical games for young grunts. What's missing, according to Major Kyle Burley, a staffer at the Army War College, is a game that simulates decision-making at strategic levels -– something to help make better generals. He calls it "a first-person thinker."
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