Army, Navy seeking out better video game tech

Try Battlefield 3 !!!

Whatever happens to violent video games, oh, so it is ok for the world's greatest bully and murderer to have them.

get serious guy are u smarter than the army the can tell a really good shooter if the see one!call of duty is a likely candidate it has all the intensities u are likely to experience on the battlefield the campaign bears testimony to this fact!

So train your troops with COD if you like...

And watch the standard of your armed forces slip below virtually every other force on the planet.

Ummmmm....

Recruitment tool or training sim?

A very important distinction that shouldn't be twisted.

"look and play more like call of duty", yes real war is exactly like call of duty where we run around bunny hopping  to avoid bullets and jumpshot enemies with a shotty....

As sad as this is for Bohemia Interactive it will force them to give us (the non military) all of the VBS2 fatures in ARMA 3. I'm sick and tired of how cool VBS2 is of what it can do when compared to it's stripped down (heavily stripped down) sibling, the ARMA series. 

I mean in VBS2 you can scuba, walk in airplane cargo area and shoot from a moving car. NONE of that you can don in ARMA1 or 2 unless you're some sqf scripting God. And even then the game engine will fight you. 

Sorry for the rant. 

i hope they don't hire anyone from Call of duty.

just get ARMA 2 with mods... the things i see community does is so close to reality with all it's complexity, it's really amazing those things pass over the millitary's head.

not really sure why they waited this long.  The popularity of FPS's could easily translate into higher military recruitment.  Just hope any new recruits don't go over to Afghanistan and start calling al-quaida "noobs". ha ha

Ha ha, the armed forces are pushing for the next-gen. Maybe.

Guys, I don't think they will release the simulator to the public, its for training soldiers and navy personnel. Don't confuse this with violent video games.

*Mockingly and raucously laughs, pointing cruelly at the military* ...Well we'll see how this withstands the building wave of anti-gaming policy...MY GUESS is that they who would love to see this nation destroyed will veto or otherwise choke such an effort...

haha our convoy simulator  looks like mine craft, and i was the 1st person to kill everyone on the 1st pass

Where's Infinity Ward when you need them....

Oh look, the US army and navy want better video games; yet the politicians want violent video games banned or otherwise castrated.

Way to go, America; I hope these politicians are removed from office.

You hear that, devs? Your game engines are horribly dated if even the army thinks they're bad, and they'll continue to be dated until you abandon those weak consoles and stop making multiplatform games and focus on PC only and their superior technology.

But...But.....Video games cause violence.

They're not training people with these games, guys... They're more like promotional tools than anything, designed to get people interested in enlistment

I think what the Arma is saying is that they want the characters in their simulations to handle weapons differently. Like being able to run and shoot at the same time for instance. Also, graphics.

Let's hope Bohemia interactive will be at the helm of the project. I mean seriously, they've already got Arma 3, so they'll be able to modify the way the weapons are handled in it and then bam, almost the perfect sim.

Watch this devolve into a multi- millon dollar boon doggle that needs to be explained to Congress.

"Soldiers need simulation games that look and play more like Call of Duty"

Call of Duty... A better military simulation than Arma?

What?

Only one Game came to mind when i read this article ARMA3 they should get the two game developers out of prison and let them finish making ARMA 3 

See, i told you that they train soldiers by playing games...Wich is ridicoulous -.-

So real war is like Call of Duty?

Why don't they just play ArmA II? Or wait for ArmA III?

I don't think video games help train soldiers. The USA has some pretty bad combat training compared to the rest of the world, I think all they need to do is send less soldiers into the front lines of the Middle East and spend more time training them just like the used to during the Cold War. Video games are for entertainment, none of them realistically portray anything.

"simulation games that will look and play more like Call of Duty than the games already available"

lol CoD, yeah right 

They should try Minecraft

The first Team Fortness mod back in late 90s looked realistic. Realistic enough to make me laugh everytime I team killed a trooper!