Good training simulator, bad video game.

User Rating: 3.8 | America's Army PC
This game can probably save the lives of US Troops, but it fries the brains of US gamers. The training missions start out simply enough: movement training, weapons training, room to room clearing. Simple Stuff. Afterwards, you have to, get this, listen to around 45 minutes of lectures and answer paper test questions.... If there's one thing that could bore even a turn-based strategy player, it's a written exam over stuff that you won't even use during gameplay. Fun? I think not. The gameplay itself attempts to clone the Battlefield series, but comes off as a laughable batch of mediocrity. The weapons available are few (sniper, a rifle, and a heavy machine gun), and they are all grossly overpowered, but this may have been made so for realisms sake. In all honesty, the Sniper class has an overwhelming advantage over every other class, as they can see over great distances (most of the maps are so small, there isn't any "fog" or draw distance) and can kill instantly. Some of the alternative weapons are jokes, using ironsights and single-fire mode only. In short, the gameplay is horrendous. The control scheme is just about right, however with only a few keys needing a rebinding. Communication is a nightmare that is usually disregarded unless you have a microphone. The sound effects are above par for a shooting game. Lots of different noises for bullets whizzing by, lots of ambient noise, great firing sounds, and other misceallaneous sound.
Graphically, its not something to write home about, but it gets the job done.

Fragged out.