US ARMY FEATURES VIOLENT GAME IN RECRUITMENT TOURNAMENT
(Posted 2007-07-09 16:36:24 by basscomm)

Rawstory has a typo-ridden article where they discuss the United States
Army's recruitment event disguised as a tournament. They take particular
offense that the 'uber violent' _Gears of War_ is one of the games
featured. They apparently think that a game that allows you to use a
chainsaw to dismember opponents, and stomp on necks to break them is
entirely too violent, though games like _America's Army_ and _Resistance:
Fall of Man_ are OK.
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"Players will be rewarded tens of thousands of dollars in prizes from the
military for chainsaw massacres of opponents, whose deaths are stunningly
illustrated."
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I find it interesting that none of the other games are mentioned.
_Resistance_ has a pretty gruesome weapon: the Air-fuel Grenade. Taken from
the Guide at IGN [ http://guides.ign.com/guides/748483/page_3.html ]:
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"This is the sexiest grenade I've ever seen in a videogame. When you
through (sic) it, it'll stick to surfaces (a Titan perhaps), discharge a
greenish looking smoke, and than set the smoke on fire, like napalm. It's
mean, and it works so well. I've cleared whole rooms with this little
bastard."
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Perhaps they gloss over this method of Mass-Death(tm) because it's less
interactive. Pressing a button to saw some alien in half is somehow more
engaging, thus potentially more psychologically damaging than to kill
aliens by pressing a button to set the air on fire.

Link! [
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Army_tournament_features_chainsaw_masacre_video_0628.html
] (Raw Story) (via Game Politics [
http://gamepolitics.com/2007/07/09/us-army-gets-ripped-over-gears-of-war/
]).

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There is 1 comment on this post:

Comment #1 by ljwblue81 (  ) on 2007-07-10 07:40:08
this is the army we're talking about here. if they get recruited these guys
will be expected to go out and kill people, not to mention see their
friends get killed by firebombs and flying truck body shrapnel. and someone
is worried about exposing them to computer generated chainsaw
dismemberment?


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