Military FPS: Are They Boosting Military Recruitment?

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Military FPS: Are They Boosting Military Recruitment?

Added: 06.07.2013 0:16 | 10 views | 0 comments

For long-term gamers, stalking around like some kind of perfectly equipped military commando possessing marksmanship skills that would make Stephen Segal jealous and killing each other in first person is something weve enjoyed for decades. Something happened with modern consoles though. Maybe it was Call of Duty and Battlefield being great games, or maybe it was Microsofts marketing machine, but first person shooters somehow became more accessible to the masses. In the early millennium, a savvy senior recruitment officer in the US Army spotted an opportunity to start connecting with those FPS adoring masses. Thats when the militarily funded its first person shooter, and Americas Army, was born. Collaborations with the Pentagon Back in 1999 US Army was short of its recruitment targets by over 6,000 soldiers and promptly pumped $2.2 billion into the recruitment drive. It wasnt long before they started focusing their attention and their budgets on...