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Saturday, November 26th, 2005, 6:06 am

US Army and its Relationship with Games

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IT is no secret that violent video games lead to crime. It is also a commonly-known fact that war games motivate people to join the army, thereby making their computer-born fantasies become real. More unusually, however, the BBC confirms that war games became an army initiative and are used as a training tool.

America’s Army is one of the most popular computer games on the planet and like many games, it is a shoot-em-up, get-the-bad guys kind of affair.

But unlike other games, America’s Army is truly a product of the US military. The Army first released the game a few years ago as a recruiting tool.

When one comes to think of it, this is a form of brainwash. The association with ‘war culture’ is a worrying factor as this is no longer flight simulator, whose aim differs.

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