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I'm just wondering if anyone else has tried this game, and if so what your impressions of it were.

Personally, I found the idea of an army simulation kind of intriquing. The game forces you to go through basic training before you are permitted to go online, which is an interesting idea. The training courses are very well done, and you can access more advanced courses upon completion of the basic ones. The fact that this game is absolutely free seemed like icing on the cake.

The honour system in the game allows you to gain experience and reputaton, and in doing so allows you to modify your equipment. Adding a grenade launcher to your m16 for instance. This was probably the most interesting aspect of the game for me.

Although the graphics in the game left a lot to be desired, they managed to convey the tactical sim. adequately. The biggest draw back I found, was that with the size of the maps, I found it hard to scout out the enemies at farther distances. There seems to be fog, and I'm not sure if this is the limitation of the karma engine, or if it was engineered to be this way as in a fog of war. Regardless of the answer I found it to be irratating.

One of the things that annoyed me the most about this game was the chat interface. It was next to impossible to read any of the messages as the font was incredibly small. On top of this, the message screen would also display recent deaths, as well as anyone logging in or out of the server. Basically a console screen. This makes me wonder why they would even bother giving you access to a completely different console, which was basically the chat interface but with a fancy box around it. For anyone with a mic this is not a problem obviously, but taking that for granted seems like short-sightedness on the developers (you know who) part.

Last but not least, if you are planning on trying this game, try to get a decent bunch of players into the game with you. I'm not sure how you could do this without about 15 buddies on a lan. The reason I mention this is because I tried to play tonight, and I was team-killed (killed by my own team mate) 4 times consecutivey. I'm not meaning to whine, just pointing out that just because it is the official game of the us army, and an ultra realistic simulation of the armed forces doesn't mean you aren't still playing against a bunch of immature 13 year olds. This main problem with this being that when you die you have to sit through the entire match and watch the action unfold. In my experience this managed to take between 6-10 minutes.
Scale 1-10

Graphics: 7.5
Gameplay: training 8 \ online 6
Sound: 7
Fun Factor: 6
Not sure what else to rank as this is my first game review.
What do you guys think of this game