America’s Army 3 to be offered on Steam

Brian Ambrozy 9 Jun, 2009 at 5:17pm ET Article published in Gaming

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Starting June 17th, you’ll be able to play the full version of America’s Army 3 on Steam. Downloading it with Steam gives you access to the Steam Cloud, and additional features like roaming config profiles, achievements, and auto-updating.

America’s Army 3 is an all-around update to the now venerable franchise of free US Army recruitment-tool-turned-video-game experience. Using actual Army tactics, terminology, techniques, equipment, and culture the idea is that by teaching young men and women how awesome it is to be a soldier, they’ll want to run out to their local recruiter and sign up for duty.

Politics and propoganda aside, the level of detail that goes into making this the most realistic infantry trainer available is impressive. Every aspect, from weapon reloading to the sounds of gear has been checked and rechecked by actual officers and soldiers. If you’re interested in playing it strictly as a game for the sake of realistic combat, you’d be hard pressed to find a more authentic experience, especially considering the price of “free”.

Comments

9 Jun 2009 ~ 11:13pm wax uhh wait.. they made an america's army 2?
9 Jun 2009 ~ 11:18pm Ryder

wax. wrote:

uhh wait.. they made an america's army 2?

Logically, one would think so, if there is a 3.
9 Jun 2009 ~ 11:37pm DrLiam I think I must have completely missed the second one as well.
10 Jun 2009 ~ 4:39pm Gate28 They never labeled it AA2. It was just a superupdate to AA1 that they decided to call AA2 in their heads, I think.
10 Jun 2009 ~ 6:16pm fatcat be interesting to try this out and see how it compares to the Army I was in.
10 Jun 2009 ~ 6:17pm Snarkasm THIS AIN'T YER DADDY'S ARMY
10 Jun 2009 ~ 7:19pm pragtastic I played the first for a while, have to say it was pretty good for a free online FPS. Thinking about trying AA3 out just to see what they've done w/ it since.
10 Jun 2009 ~ 7:27pm TiberiusLazarus Played AA a couple years back. Had some good multiplayer options that I would like to see what they've done with since.
10 Jun 2009 ~ 9:55pm NiGHTS I, too, had no idea they made an AA2. I used to play AA online a lot, I'm a sucker for "realism" FPS.
12 Jun 2009 ~ 12:45am Tushon

NiGHTS wrote:

I, too, had no idea they made an AA2. I used to play AA online a lot, I'm a sucker for "realism" FPS.

+1. I liked how realistic it was while still not taking forever and a day to get the next round going.