Member name- Potatoe Review- America’s army created to help recruit and train soldiers for the American army. This serves the purpose quite well for this game is packed with propaganda and how the army is the good guys beating the bad guys. Before you actually get in to the game, you must register a user account, which takes up about five minutes of your precious time. Once you have registered you must complete a series of training missions to actually play the game. It wouldn’t be such a problem if the whole training thing wouldn’t be boring. And you would excpect the trainings to be getting used to the controls. Most of the trainings are going to lectures and doing the tests afterwards. The lectures span from five to ten minutes. When you finally get into the game, you choose a team and wait for the next round to start. This wouldn’t be a problem if the rounds weren’t slow-paced and dull. The game brags how realistic it is. It is realistic, a bit too realistic. People in small groups going around hunting for campers, who always seem to be have faster trigger finger than you. The whole strategy in the game is sneaking up on the enemy from behind. The maps in the game are large and diverse, so you won’t be bored for awhile, too bad there is only a selection of maps that are played online. The maps span from capturing crates to getting from point A to point B to blowing up enemy weapon stashes. The Graphics in the game are nice, and above average for a freeware game. The graphics compete with some commercial games. The graphics bring up the atmosphere of the game quite a bit. The character models are done well and have ragdoll physics. The bodies of fallen enemies and comrades stay on the battlefield for the length of the round. In the game, you always play the Americans or the indigenous forces working alongside the Americans, always against the evil terrorists. You cannot play the terrorists which is kind of a dissapointment. The game would have more dept if you could play the terrorists but it would contradict with the purpose of the game. Also there is a limited amount of weapon classes you can choose from and usually you will just get the normal rifle, unless you play well and get to choose your class first. America’s Army is a well done, good and fun shooter if you have nothing better to do, but you would be better off just paying about 20€ to buy Counter Strike. Genre- Action Positive points- Diverse maps. Nice graphics. Negative points- The waiting. Too slow-paced for most players. Training missions. Minimum System Req. 3-D graphics card with 64 MB memory and support for hardware transformation and lighting 1.5 GHz processor or equivalent English version of Windows(r) 2000/XP Operating System with all updates 384MB RAM 2.00GB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files Windows 2000/XP compatible system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for CD-ROM drive, video card, sound card, mouse and keyboard) DirectX(r) 9.0 100% Compatible DirectX 9.0 soundcard 56kbps Modem or other network connection *Nvidia® nForce™ or other motherboard/soundcards containing Dolby Digital® Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital® audio. Recommended system req. 3-D graphics card with 128 MB memory and support for hardware transformation and lighting (256 MB video memory for higher detail display) 2.4 GHz processor or equivalent English version of Windows(r) 2000/XP Operating System with latest updates 512 MB RAM 2.00GB of uncompressed hard disk space for game files Windows 2000/XP compatible system (including compatible 32-bit drivers for CD-ROM drive, video card, sound card, mouse and keyboard) DirectX(r)9.0 100% Compatible DirectX 9.0 soundcard Broadband Network Connection NVIDIA(r) nForce(tm) or other motherboards/soundcards containing the Dolby(r) Digital Interactive Content Encoder required for Dolby Digital audio Official Game URL: www.americasarmy.com Download page: http://www.americasarmy.com/downloads/ Questionable content: Violence Multiplayer Modes: Internet, LAN