There were servers ran by actual army units and the dudes in the server would always try to recruit you like ''Oh, that was a nice nade, ever though of throwing real ones'' and I was like ''Dude! I'm 13, chill out''
The recruiter be like... "JOIN THE ARMY, DUDE!!" * *shows enlistment bonuses, talks crap about other branches, says the Army is the best and shit, but he offers you a guaranteed Motor Transport Operator MOS* * Lol
I think all branches of the us government should make a game. I can’t wait to play American telecommunications from the developers at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration!
The Navy has a simulator they sometimes let recruits play during boot camp if they don’t have anything to do and they already cleaned for 12 hours. It’s really dumb and it was hard to not laugh at this ridiculousness of it.
@@yungjoemighty879 has been told by many people he isn't cool so he decided to build a shell for himself to stay in so he won't be told he is not cool. However, he has developed a horrible habit of saying everything is not cool.
It’s funny because when I was in the army and qualified with the m203 irl I no scoped my way through qualification because I couldn’t figure out how the damn sight worked.
Their arc so predictable with rounds you can get GOOD. Dude in my squad could hit the individual man size pop up target with chalk rounds at 500, we called him mortar.
Air Force, I went with the firearms instructor guys to "get rid" of some ammo after a range day. We spent about an hour and a half shooting literally hundreds of chalk rounds out of the M203. I still don't know how the sight works, but does it really matter? The ultimate shoot first and ask questions later weapon hahaha
a realistic Military Sim has you getting yelled at by a 40 year old man and being made to crawl on hands and knees in the middle of an open field because Booty McBootface lost a piece of equipment.
"Welcome to Camp Navarro. So, you're the new replacement... You are out of uniform, soldier! Where is your power armor? Don't have any? You expect me to believe that, maggot? The truth is you lost an expensive piece of army-issue equipment. That suit is going to come out of your pay, and you will remain in this mans army until you are five hundred and ten years old, which is the number of years it will take for you to pay for a Mark II Powered Combat Armor you have lost! Report to the armory and have a new suit issued to you, then report back to me, private! Dismissed" - Sergeant Dornan
When I was a kid I shot the Drill Sergeant out of frustration. The game actually showed me the inside of a Leavenworth prison cell. Nothing I could do but quitting and opening it again. Never made something like that in gaming ever again.
In the earliest version of AA the developers hadn't coded Leavenworth to the training grounds, so you could kill everyone on the grounds but the game would carry on with the ghost of the DI running you through the range.
People actually don't realize army is just glorified janitors for most of the time. And when you actually get into a fight you are shooting like 5 mags at some muzzle flashes in the distance.
Sad fact: There was a 2006 project called “Dead in Iraq” when artist Joseph DeLappe would jump into America’s Army servers, put down his weapon, and start typing up the names of every American soldier killed in the Iraq war. One by one. Name, rank, age, date of death. Over and over and over again until he got perma-banned from nearly every server His reasoning was: “There are names on that list of people who started out by playing this game, and got killed because of it”
Ah yes America's army the game that made me take a CLS class and Night infiltration course before I could play multi-player. Totally enjoyed a game forcing me back into boot camp 🙄
OG AA was absolutely amazing. The original iteration was PERFECT. Taking a medics multiple choice test to be a field medic, shooting range score affecting whether or not you can use a sniper rifle... Having to check in with your team so they don't shoot you.... IT WAS SO GOOD
Finally someone who Understood. Omg original aa on pc. The bridge map. I would just try to win it by running across the bridge without dying to the point but yeahhh so good
Last British officer that tried to "make" a game more realistic got put in jail for leaking Challenger 2 info Maybe some RAF pilot will drop classified specs for the Typhoon when it gets into DCS.
For a minute I thought it was unrealistic, until your squad mate started becoming a barrel obstruction on multiple occasions....at that point I knew it was legit war simulation
This game was amazing in its early versions. I still remember sitting through a 30+ minute first aid course just to be able to use bandages in battle lol
The Iron sights in this game are still the most realistic iron sights out of any game to date. Despite the low poly 2d texture, that is exactly how iron sights look like when you look through them, and how the recoil looks when you fire.
Navy did the same thing with the Battleship movie and the Air Force leaned super heavily into Captain Marvel, its basically an open secret at this point that the U.S. State Dept likes to get 'em young with these media campaigns directed at teenage Americans.
It's not a secret, the military very openly gives free equipment to films that portray a positive message. Iron Man got access to over a billion dollars in US military equipment (now of course it was operated by US military personnel and was always in military custody), while Top Gun Maverick flew the actors around for all their cockpit scenes. The rub is the military gets to make alterations to the movies to make the military seem more appealing. Theoretically everyone profits, as the military gets a good recruiting piece, movies get to actually turn a profit, and audiences get better spectacle.
this game actually had a cool part with the sniper qual, there was a mission that literally took 48 hours to complete. it was for patience, go figure :)
I remember playing this before I went to BCT in 04 at Ft. Benning. The M16A2 in the game was exponentially more reliable than the trash rifle I had in BCT/OSUT
“Infantry is just like call of duty” Yeah it totally is, Except you’re the NPC sweeping the airbase runway with a kitchen broom or hitting a cinder block with a pipewrench to build a new latrine.
We use Arma 2 now. They actually make rendered maps of the real training areas. Only got to do it once in 7 years but they gave us 15min to kill eachother as much as we wanted before officially playing the game. Played another version of it once while getting certified on a specific tool. We had too many vehicles so immediately when the mission started we launched one off a cliff. Good times.
We use VBS3 (assuming you're army), not Arma. VBS is the official software used by the army, Arma's a commercial product developed by a different company They're releasing VBS4 soon-ish maybe? which is pretty cool, not that any of us will be able to play it. It sounds impressive if the technical details are true
@@echodelta2172 VBS and/or VBS2 were originally based on Arma's engine, as it was originally made by the same developers. Nowadays they're separate teams iirc and VBS3 uses its own distinct upgraded engine. While they are similar, they've come a long way from being identical.
Aw man! Rise of a Soldier is one of my favorite games growing up, I loved doing the course as fast as possible, the different classes you could go down, the better shooting mechanics and stuff like magazines remembering your ammo count, being the commander was awesome and setting up attacks and combat felt intense it wasnt just get hit and heal over 3 seconds, if you couldn't heal you were in trouble. One of my favorite moments which Im sure would be super cheesy now looking back was the first or second commander mission where you take a guy you've fought with before, onto a bridge from a previous mission, and you get pinned in a building by a sniper and the guy you've been with says he can see the snipers scope focused on him (Dunno why he didnt shoot or move) but it was this crazy intense moment and if you didnt kill the sniper in time he would just die and be gone, I played that mission over and over again trying to save him but cant remember if I ever did. Great game that I've wanted to play for years but it wasn't on PC and getting an original Xbox emulator up is annoying.
@@ugiustuskeiserus8066 I actually did end up getting everything figured out eventually. I've mostly been playing AA Rise of a soldier on the Xbox because it really is great, while also playing a bit of NFS Carbon.
Don't worry, the army has simulated infantry and vehicle training with emulated seating for soldiers playing various roles in vehicles; and during one training day I watched an enemy BMP approach my Stryker, but there was a literal cliff between us, and the vehicle just glitch anime teleports over it and then proceeds to kill us. This game is the spirited embodiment of the military.
On the PC online version w/ the training scenarios, Teamkilling or killing friendly NPCs resulted in the player being put in a literal LEAVENWORTH jail cell.
I've been looking for this game for years! Completely forgot the name of it. Back in the days of Blockbuster, my dad (who's never known anything about video games) unironically thought this game would be superior to Modern Warfare 2. He straight up made me rent America's Army instead of MW2. I haven't talked to him since then.
I played the second growing up and probably misremember it to a degree but it had some intense af moments, trying to keep all my guys alive was so hard. One moment stands out, being trapped in this house surrounded by infantry and at least one tank shelling tf out of us, all of us wounded, low on ammo and trying to scavenge, finally destroying a tank, killing all the infantry and beating the level. What a great childhood memory lol
My cousin and i adored Americas Army "True Soldier" Ubisoft was also involved in that one and had a ton of early Ghost Recon vibes. It was great back when we were really young ofc but man we spent a ton of time on that one.
I remember playing americas army 3. I was still doing the training stuff, and when I started to get bored, tried shooting one of the drill sergeants to see what would happen. He died, it showed me what crimes I was convicted of, my character was imprisoned, and it wouldn't let me play for a few hours until I served my sentence. Instead of waiting, I just uninstalled the game and never played again. 10/10, would recommend.
Never new this one existed, and I *like* this series. I recommend AA3. There's no campaign, but the training is expansive and well written, with tightly balanced challenges to compete in. You'll almost certainly learn something
Man this video hit my like a truck of nostalgia. The game was fun back when I was in high school and the Spec Ops missions are cool with one massive upgrade being your M4 SOPMOD actual scope+bipod
That is what whoever Brass directed the animator to do I imagine. To teach a military standard if reloading and using the FA to ensure that your cartridge is properly seated in the chamber. I have personally had a jam like this that my bolt was jammed as well and the only thing I could do was wack the FA to fix it.
Ooooh I remember the old days. Actually America's army is a really iconic series. Really innovated in the tactical shooter genre. This is actually a port of the first aa game, there are still people on pc I think for 1,2 and aa3. I don't remember where u can get them tho, I think I pirated them like 5 6 years ago but I lost them :/ . Very fun multiplayer tho.
I remember that game at our LAN parties, it wasn't bad. One thing that was hilarious though is during the AQTs. My friends had white characters, mine was black. They shot the instructor and got reprimanded (game restarted), then I tried it and got sent to prison. I yelled out "HEY THIS GAME IS RACIST!" and we all lost it laughing, good times in college.
AA2 was a timeless classic I miss it so much, my dad ended up being one of the top 100 players in the world and the Army came too our house! Good times. That was back when the Devs had no military experience but it was WAY better and more successful than proving grounds and AA3. The old devs did somthing for this game no one had ever seen they used to hold events specifically for this game and even put the events inside the game for you too look around and play.
“Why are the guns so loud? So unrealistic!” Actually, that’s wrong, the sound of a 5.56x45mm NATO bullet is 155 decibels and 140 is required to give immediate hearing damage. Not only that, you said they don’t have ear protection, they do. They’re military soldiers! How else would you think a veteran would hear you?
@@johnathaneck6586 i remember first to fight. Never beat the full game but made decent progress which is kinda impressive considering I was like 12 and had no idea what I was doing. Do you know if its possible to get a working PC download for first to fight?
My dad was a army recruiter at that time so I got the game for free. I was 9 so this was like the 2nd shooter game I ever played, first was army men sarge's heroes
I remember getting this game at a peddler mall for like $2. The vendor had a whole shelf of them that probably never got sold. I could t get past the first mission, which was pretty common for me and older shooting games.
I remember this game and my favorite tactic. Micspam Scatman John while running at the enemy and almost top fragging with the shotgun or underbarrel grenade launcher.
I remember there was a news story about some guy who used medic skills he learnt from the game during a car wreck or something like that, which is pretty cool.
I played the crap out of this in high school, forget exactly when but it would have been between 2006 and 2009. It was AA 2.0 (or 2.X). Me and a friend would get down to some SF_Hospital. I love the Bridge map too. AA 2.0 was sick. Thank god it didn't actually make me want to join the Army though. Nothing but respect to those who serve willingly but that would have been a very different path.
The fact that they included smacking the jam enhancer when reloading the M16 is what makes this game truly Army. (Yes, I know the forward assist actually kept Kyle alive in Kenosha, but I can still make fun of it.)
The ADSing mechanics were pretty neat for its time, not many games were doing 3D iron sights in their games in 2005. But from a game development point of view, 2005 was early days compared to how we make video games now, there are methodologies involved now that weren’t necessarily around by that point, I also say necessarily as it was in 2004 when the MDA framework paper became available, but that’s just one framework to the many that came thereafter.
They could at least have made realistic reload animations, as opposed to the guy hitting the bolt release _and_ the forward assist (only ever used in case of a jam) every time.
I thought I had heard somewhere that hitting the forward assist all the time is an actual part of US military training. So, maybe the game is right, but the drill is weird. Can someone correct me on this?
@@brianyoung3324 that would be dependent on a lot of different factors. I attended SOI with the marine corps, when we reloaded you slapped the fuckin bolt release and that's it. Usually don't touch the charging handle or forward assist unless your shits jammed
There were servers ran by actual army units and the dudes in the server would always try to recruit you like ''Oh, that was a nice nade, ever though of throwing real ones'' and I was like ''Dude! I'm 13, chill out''
The recruiter be like... "JOIN THE ARMY, DUDE!!" * *shows enlistment bonuses, talks crap about other branches, says the Army is the best and shit, but he offers you a guaranteed Motor Transport Operator MOS* * Lol
Hahahahha
YMRA EHT NIOJ
Well this is cap, But it’s funny nonetheless
@@DivinesLegacy ah yes, totally not possible for us army units to try to recruit people in a game made by the US ARMY TO RECRUIT PEOPLE
I think all branches of the us government should make a game.
I can’t wait to play American telecommunications from the developers at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration!
Mission accomplished, you've been promoted to: master communicator
The Navy has a simulator they sometimes let recruits play during boot camp if they don’t have anything to do and they already cleaned for 12 hours. It’s really dumb and it was hard to not laugh at this ridiculousness of it.
USPS simulator is just gta in a mail truck
What about a Border Patrol Simulator? That sounds fun
Ok ok hear me out but a national parks game would be pretty cool
It’s actually really cool the the AI was able to call the player by name. Although it’s weird they recording lines with Latte as a name
America’s Army was the OG Fallout 4 codsworth
none of this is cool
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@@yungjoemighty879 has been told by many people he isn't cool so he decided to build a shell for himself to stay in so he won't be told he is not cool. However, he has developed a horrible habit of saying everything is not cool.
0:40 you can see the codenames are preset, not something he types in
"If you're gonna get invaded by america, then speak american" made me laugh so bad on this line.
It’s funny because when I was in the army and qualified with the m203 irl I no scoped my way through qualification because I couldn’t figure out how the damn sight worked.
Thoomp!
Legend
Their arc so predictable with rounds you can get GOOD. Dude in my squad could hit the individual man size pop up target with chalk rounds at 500, we called him mortar.
Must have been a marine
Air Force, I went with the firearms instructor guys to "get rid" of some ammo after a range day. We spent about an hour and a half shooting literally hundreds of chalk rounds out of the M203. I still don't know how the sight works, but does it really matter?
The ultimate shoot first and ask questions later weapon hahaha
a realistic Military Sim has you getting yelled at by a 40 year old man and being made to crawl on hands and knees in the middle of an open field because Booty McBootface lost a piece of equipment.
"Welcome to Camp Navarro. So, you're the new replacement... You are out of uniform, soldier! Where is your power armor? Don't have any? You expect me to believe that, maggot? The truth is you lost an expensive piece of army-issue equipment. That suit is going to come out of your pay, and you will remain in this mans army until you are five hundred and ten years old, which is the number of years it will take for you to pay for a Mark II Powered Combat Armor you have lost! Report to the armory and have a new suit issued to you, then report back to me, private! Dismissed" - Sergeant Dornan
@@thebandofbastards4934 Lol.
I dunno, most people I've met in the military were way younger than that. 27 year olds that looked 40 yelling at you would be more apt lol.
@@atadbitnefarious1387 It's all the MRE's and being dead inside that excels the aging.
So glad I joined the Air Force
Being "trained to be bored" makes this game incredibly realistic. Hitting the forward assist and then getting flawless automatic fire not so much
7:00 The US army forgot to download Counter Strike Source
"BuT ThEY UsE A DiFFreNt EnGIne"
@@markzuccsburger6165 OmG ThIs GuY iS StPId R/WoOOoOOoooooOsH
i could actually imagine the us army themselves making a partnership with valve and get exclusive counter-strike skins and patches
@@markzuccsburger6165 EDeesS wHaT iT
IS
When I was a kid I shot the Drill Sergeant out of frustration. The game actually showed me the inside of a Leavenworth prison cell. Nothing I could do but quitting and opening it again. Never made something like that in gaming ever again.
In the earliest version of AA the developers hadn't coded Leavenworth to the training grounds, so you could kill everyone on the grounds but the game would carry on with the ghost of the DI running you through the range.
@@BlackOps05 that seems more frightening than the DI still being alive
Now I have to play this lmao
Don't forget the Harmonica.
@@dylancasey1702 even in dead, the Drill Instructor will make you shoot straight
"Is the goal to teach you how to do a war? Maybe, so far it just trained me on how to be bored"
Outstanding! This is EXACTLY what the army is like
ah yes let me sit on a jerry can for 4 hours hear one gunshot get excited then have no gunshots for the next 7 hours and still have to be on lookout
People actually don't realize army is just glorified janitors for most of the time. And when you actually get into a fight you are shooting like 5 mags at some muzzle flashes in the distance.
Hurry up and wait. That sums it up perfectly.
"Oh my god this gun sucks"
Yeah every saw gunner in the army has said that at least once so you're not wrong
I’ve heard they are HEAVY.
@@tetraxis3011 from what I know they are and the ammo pouch’s is also from what I hear are a bitch to carry and use
@@ncrranger8449 Oof
Sad fact: There was a 2006 project called “Dead in Iraq” when artist Joseph DeLappe would jump into America’s Army servers, put down his weapon, and start typing up the names of every American soldier killed in the Iraq war. One by one. Name, rank, age, date of death. Over and over and over again until he got perma-banned from nearly every server
His reasoning was: “There are names on that list of people who started out by playing this game, and got killed because of it”
ngl thats pretty based
oooof....that's.....that hits hard man
according to the wikipedia article, it was in 2006, not 2009
Man...
@@4T3hM4kr0n fixed!
i dont think playing some shitty shooter makes me want to join the army
Ah yes America's army the game that made me take a CLS class and Night infiltration course before I could play multi-player. Totally enjoyed a game forcing me back into boot camp 🙄
They really went out to earn that "most realistic shooter"
“Oh you thought your ass was done?”
@@synysterdax1593 🤣 Drill Sgt coming for that ass
That class was the worst. I think if you left the room, you were considered going AWOL and you had to restart
I seem to recall you could qualify with Javelin or CROWS, but they didn't feature in the game at all.
"the suppressive fire thing is crazy we've been shooting at eachother for 15 minutes"
def more realistic than call of duty LOL
OG AA was absolutely amazing. The original iteration was PERFECT. Taking a medics multiple choice test to be a field medic, shooting range score affecting whether or not you can use a sniper rifle... Having to check in with your team so they don't shoot you.... IT WAS SO GOOD
I agree, 2.5 was super fun, man i had to actually study to get medic graduation on 2.5. nice times of bridge and random weapons with gravity
@@JackKrauser28 ah man, exactly. Pipeline Was my absolute favorite map. Bridge and Cache were great too! Ah so many memories.
Finally someone who
Understood. Omg original aa on pc. The bridge map. I would just try to win it by running across the bridge without dying to the point but yeahhh so good
@@astupiddvdcase Good ole Bridge, where overpowered nade tossing was an art form lols.
Idk if its still active, but there is a 2.5 relaunch that I used to play. Lots of time spent on pipeline dying.
Games take so many liberties these days. When you’re in the real military, you don’t get grass!
Do you at least get floor textures, or did those get cut too?
@@Scharrez Seems like we need more military spending
Maybe we'll get that in 2058
@@rafaelbalsan4512 maybe Lockheed Martin will provide the overpriced flooring
CSM got so angry for us stepping on it he took it away😔
only the US military would even consider making their own video games.
if only we could get the RAF to make an Ace Combat game
Ace Combat 7.
Last British officer that tried to "make" a game more realistic got put in jail for leaking Challenger 2 info
Maybe some RAF pilot will drop classified specs for the Typhoon when it gets into DCS.
@@stevemc6010 yeah but that wasn't a game endorsed by the UK Military or government and neither was the action.
Ace Combat 8: Flights of the Union Jack
@@REIVAXMEELAS Ace Combat: "we're going to bomb your runways until you cry" squadron
For a minute I thought it was unrealistic, until your squad mate started becoming a barrel obstruction on multiple occasions....at that point I knew it was legit war simulation
“Why are the gunshots so loud so unrealistic “ was a sentence I thought I would never hear in my years on this planet.
I remember beating that sniper training mission as a 7 year old and feeling like a legend. So happy someone has documented how bullshit it is.
Hahaha literally the same! I played it as a kid and found the sniper levels total bs. I think that, and Conflict Vietnam were made hard for the lulz
Can't wait to get US Army ads for the whole week, despite being European in the first place
I pray that you don’t get the Emma ad with her two moms
@@colonel1003 lmao
Bruh I got recruited from Germany, Uncle Sam will get his
In every European, there is a good American just dying to come out.
Your IP is outside of the US you’re not getting US military Ads stop capping.
This game was amazing in its early versions. I still remember sitting through a 30+ minute first aid course just to be able to use bandages in battle lol
The Iron sights in this game are still the most realistic iron sights out of any game to date. Despite the low poly 2d texture, that is exactly how iron sights look like when you look through them, and how the recoil looks when you fire.
exactly.
as someone who's shot guns before, that “JUST HIT HIM, HES THE RED DOT” is so realistic lmao
Navy did the same thing with the Battleship movie and the Air Force leaned super heavily into Captain Marvel, its basically an open secret at this point that the U.S. State Dept likes to get 'em young with these media campaigns directed at teenage Americans.
Dont forget battle las angeles with the marines
@@trolla5125 I've actually never seen that, but the Marines have very good marketing so I wouldn't be surprised
@@Flitterquest RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH MARINES
It's not a secret, the military very openly gives free equipment to films that portray a positive message. Iron Man got access to over a billion dollars in US military equipment (now of course it was operated by US military personnel and was always in military custody), while Top Gun Maverick flew the actors around for all their cockpit scenes. The rub is the military gets to make alterations to the movies to make the military seem more appealing. Theoretically everyone profits, as the military gets a good recruiting piece, movies get to actually turn a profit, and audiences get better spectacle.
this game actually had a cool part with the sniper qual, there was a mission that literally took 48 hours to complete. it was for patience, go figure :)
I remember playing this before I went to BCT in 04 at Ft. Benning. The M16A2 in the game was exponentially more reliable than the trash rifle I had in BCT/OSUT
lol. you are meant to clean them.
@@richardlooch2109 He most likely did
@@Frille512 twice a day. Iraq sand is a bitch.
1:23 "hey look it's a bad game!"
"huh. so it is."
im dying xD
“Infantry is just like call of duty”
Yeah it totally is, Except you’re the NPC sweeping the airbase runway with a kitchen broom or hitting a cinder block with a pipewrench to build a new latrine.
Cool story now go mop in the rain
We use Arma 2 now. They actually make rendered maps of the real training areas. Only got to do it once in 7 years but they gave us 15min to kill eachother as much as we wanted before officially playing the game.
Played another version of it once while getting certified on a specific tool. We had too many vehicles so immediately when the mission started we launched one off a cliff. Good times.
Since when was a stock index in the military 🤔
We use VBS3 (assuming you're army), not Arma. VBS is the official software used by the army, Arma's a commercial product developed by a different company
They're releasing VBS4 soon-ish maybe? which is pretty cool, not that any of us will be able to play it. It sounds impressive if the technical details are true
@@jacobrardin2445 I guess it looks similar, I never had PC so I only compared it to what I had seen online. It's basically Arma lol
@@jacobrardin2445 VBS is almost identical to Arma 2, he's not wrong
@@echodelta2172 VBS and/or VBS2 were originally based on Arma's engine, as it was originally made by the same developers. Nowadays they're separate teams iirc and VBS3 uses its own distinct upgraded engine. While they are similar, they've come a long way from being identical.
"So far it just trained me in how to be bored" well I have good news about 99% of your war then
Man, the old America's Army games are so good.
Aw man! Rise of a Soldier is one of my favorite games growing up, I loved doing the course as fast as possible, the different classes you could go down, the better shooting mechanics and stuff like magazines remembering your ammo count, being the commander was awesome and setting up attacks and combat felt intense it wasnt just get hit and heal over 3 seconds, if you couldn't heal you were in trouble. One of my favorite moments which Im sure would be super cheesy now looking back was the first or second commander mission where you take a guy you've fought with before, onto a bridge from a previous mission, and you get pinned in a building by a sniper and the guy you've been with says he can see the snipers scope focused on him (Dunno why he didnt shoot or move) but it was this crazy intense moment and if you didnt kill the sniper in time he would just die and be gone, I played that mission over and over again trying to save him but cant remember if I ever did. Great game that I've wanted to play for years but it wasn't on PC and getting an original Xbox emulator up is annoying.
Xemu is pretty simple to setup. Just gotta download the right bios
@@ugiustuskeiserus8066 I actually did end up getting everything figured out eventually. I've mostly been playing AA Rise of a soldier on the Xbox because it really is great, while also playing a bit of NFS Carbon.
@@DetectiveJones
Both are great 👍🏻
They don't even let you play as a cook. 0/10
No rifle-cleaning mini game?
Whack.
arma 3 been real quiet since this game dropped
Don't worry, the army has simulated infantry and vehicle training with emulated seating for soldiers playing various roles in vehicles; and during one training day I watched an enemy BMP approach my Stryker, but there was a literal cliff between us, and the vehicle just glitch anime teleports over it and then proceeds to kill us. This game is the spirited embodiment of the military.
The fact that the Army reloading animation has them hitting the forward assist, it's very accurate
Interestingly, I heard/saw that Bohemia Interactive actually has some kind of Arma specifically for the military.
bruh arma started out as something FOR the military
@@Dirtyhippies699 yeah but I mean that arma exists and so does whatever the other thing by Bohemia is called
@@TheAlexDivision I forgot what it’s called but it’s basically arma but In VR we used it for convoy training
@@d1ff76 same, a guy got an article 15 for fucking up in the simulator lmao
@@timothyeachus7242 lmao what? That’s just toxic leadership
“Why are the guns so loud? So unrealistic” Go to a gun range, it’ll be funny
On the PC online version w/ the training scenarios, Teamkilling or killing friendly NPCs resulted in the player being put in a literal LEAVENWORTH jail cell.
The sequel involves guarding poppy fields for 20 years
I've been looking for this game for years! Completely forgot the name of it. Back in the days of Blockbuster, my dad (who's never known anything about video games) unironically thought this game would be superior to Modern Warfare 2. He straight up made me rent America's Army instead of MW2.
I haven't talked to him since then.
Why? He clearly made the right choice
In the advent that the last line was not a joke, I hope your relationship with your dad gets better. Stay safe out there dude.
I remember hearing about this game in a Newsweek magazine my mom was reading, and when she read the article she cried.
I never played this one but I’m now reminded of playing Conflict Desert Storm on the PS2, you should play that one.
Oh man I forgot that existed, played the demo from Xbox magazine as a kid could never figure it out....but it seemed really cool!
I played the second growing up and probably misremember it to a degree but it had some intense af moments, trying to keep all my guys alive was so hard. One moment stands out, being trapped in this house surrounded by infantry and at least one tank shelling tf out of us, all of us wounded, low on ammo and trying to scavenge, finally destroying a tank, killing all the infantry and beating the level. What a great childhood memory lol
Ah yes, the best game for dads to bond with their sons. Funny since my dad is an actual Gulf War vet
@@forrestgumball Desert Storm?
I like the DoF on the front sight post. Some people just never learn how to use iron sights. And they never will, because red dots are a standard now.
the training in AA3 helped me learn CPR :V
My cousin and i adored Americas Army "True Soldier"
Ubisoft was also involved in that one and had a ton of early Ghost Recon vibes. It was great back when we were really young ofc but man we spent a ton of time on that one.
Haha they gave this game away at the Houston air show when I was growing up
This is the best iron sight i ever seen in a game. Usually that thing completely obstructs your entire view in most games
I remember playing americas army 3. I was still doing the training stuff, and when I started to get bored, tried shooting one of the drill sergeants to see what would happen. He died, it showed me what crimes I was convicted of, my character was imprisoned, and it wouldn't let me play for a few hours until I served my sentence. Instead of waiting, I just uninstalled the game and never played again. 10/10, would recommend.
Funny if that put you on a list haha
i didn't read the first sentence and thought you shot your real life drill instructor just to see what would happen
Remember the recruiter coming to my High school in 2010 with this hooked up on a TV in the back of a color Hummer H3. ‘Merica
Never new this one existed, and I *like* this series. I recommend AA3. There's no campaign, but the training is expansive and well written, with tightly balanced challenges to compete in. You'll almost certainly learn something
Why the hell would I want to play a virtual bootcamp
@@cara2467 given the current political issues, it can be used as preparation
@@cara2467 It makes for a good introduction to tactical shooters
The amount of "hello fellow kids" energy in this is intense
7:18 Sniper Training in real life, ur supposed to sneak till the end without being spotted by ANY of the instructors
i thought i was having deju vu after JUST watching your other america's army video. quality content as always oboe
Man this video hit my like a truck of nostalgia.
The game was fun back when I was in high school and the Spec Ops missions are cool with one massive upgrade being your M4 SOPMOD actual scope+bipod
0:36 The irony of a french company publishing an official game about the US Army.
Bro me and one of my boys got on this game as a joke a year ago, and it was strangely fun in a broken, bad kinda way.
6:51 “so far it just trained me on how on how to be bored” the generals who approved this game watching this “damn right it did”
why does the soldier hit the forward assist after every reload? Although probably the best depiction of what iron sights look like in any game.
they never cleaned the gun. this is actually realistic as privates are fucking stupid.
That is what whoever Brass directed the animator to do I imagine. To teach a military standard if reloading and using the FA to ensure that your cartridge is properly seated in the chamber.
I have personally had a jam like this that my bolt was jammed as well and the only thing I could do was wack the FA to fix it.
LMFAO BRO THE THESEKNIVESONLY REFERENCE AND HUMOR THROUGHOUT- You've earned yourself a new sub, my friend, keep up the great work c:
Ooooh I remember the old days. Actually America's army is a really iconic series. Really innovated in the tactical shooter genre. This is actually a port of the first aa game, there are still people on pc I think for 1,2 and aa3. I don't remember where u can get them tho, I think I pirated them like 5 6 years ago but I lost them :/ . Very fun multiplayer tho.
"He likes it if you call him Latte actually."
That does not sound like a nickname a soldier gave himself. XD
LATTE TRUSTED YOU! I thought I could too! SO WHY IN BLOODY HELL DOES *THE* DICTATOR KNOW YOU?!?!
I remember that game at our LAN parties, it wasn't bad. One thing that was hilarious though is during the AQTs. My friends had white characters, mine was black. They shot the instructor and got reprimanded (game restarted), then I tried it and got sent to prison. I yelled out "HEY THIS GAME IS RACIST!" and we all lost it laughing, good times in college.
AA2 was a timeless classic I miss it so much, my dad ended up being one of the top 100 players in the world and the Army came too our house! Good times. That was back when the Devs had no military experience but it was WAY better and more successful than proving grounds and AA3. The old devs did somthing for this game no one had ever seen they used to hold events specifically for this game and even put the events inside the game for you too look around and play.
4:46 funnily enough, a lot of seasoned grenadiers don't use the sights anyways, cuz they've shot so many rounds they know exactly where it's going
The US Military making a game to encourage people to join up would literally not stand out in a Cyberpunk nightmare setting
(No not *that* Cyberpunk)
Army recruitment:
Marine recruitment: no balls
0:41 WEST VIRGINIA MENTIONED
RAAAAAAAAH
“Why are the guns so loud? So unrealistic!” Actually, that’s wrong, the sound of a 5.56x45mm NATO bullet is 155 decibels and 140 is required to give immediate hearing damage. Not only that, you said they don’t have ear protection, they do. They’re military soldiers! How else would you think a veteran would hear you?
It was clearly a joke...
155 db for a 5.56? no way. maybe like 125db.
I remember in one of the games in the series you could shoot your drill and it would instantly sent your character to a jailcell
The Marines made a video game as well for the original Xbox
Full Spectrum Warrior??
@@christiansky942 no first to fight. but I did play that as well
@@johnathaneck6586 i remember first to fight. Never beat the full game but made decent progress which is kinda impressive considering I was like 12 and had no idea what I was doing. Do you know if its possible to get a working PC download for first to fight?
My dad was a army recruiter at that time so I got the game for free. I was 9 so this was like the 2nd shooter game I ever played, first was army men sarge's heroes
I was gonna watch smiling friends but then i saw this video so i watched smiling friends then came back to this video
Bothered me how they hit the forward assist EVERY time they reloaded. Especially when you were tactical reloading.
Whenever I get a notification that Oboeshoesgames uploaded a video it makes the day worth living
2:31 “promoted within five minutes”
so how long until we fight god?
Why is that description so relatable? Man I dunno how many times I had to reinstall Steam "because it's a virus!" Lol
Literally just graduated u.s. army infantry school. Nice.
I didn't know at the time that the armed forces had direct involvement in the creation of this game but now I'm like, yeah of course
2:56 when he reloads why is hitting the forward assist? LMAO
I remember playing this game as a kid and it was a big part of why I have a fascination with the military and political topics.
I remember getting this game at a peddler mall for like $2. The vendor had a whole shelf of them that probably never got sold. I could t get past the first mission, which was pretty common for me and older shooting games.
2:19 nobody gonna point out this guy was shooting the wall and complaining he couldnt hit anything? lol
I remember this game and my favorite tactic. Micspam Scatman John while running at the enemy and almost top fragging with the shotgun or underbarrel grenade launcher.
I think one of the worst parts is seeing the soldier slap the forward assist as part of a reload animation
2:32 is something everyone has said in the army at some point either ironically or un ironically
7:29 is this soldier just having a derp face?
I remember there was a news story about some guy who used medic skills he learnt from the game during a car wreck or something like that, which is pretty cool.
I can't get over those Ghost segments, he's my favorite Homestar Runner character.
This is the most 2005 game Ive ever seen
I played the crap out of this in high school, forget exactly when but it would have been between 2006 and 2009. It was AA 2.0 (or 2.X). Me and a friend would get down to some SF_Hospital. I love the Bridge map too. AA 2.0 was sick. Thank god it didn't actually make me want to join the Army though. Nothing but respect to those who serve willingly but that would have been a very different path.
The Marines had a fantastic game called first to fight. Good graphics for the time and a great, campaign.
2:58 Thank you for your service.
The fact that they included smacking the jam enhancer when reloading the M16 is what makes this game truly Army.
(Yes, I know the forward assist actually kept Kyle alive in Kenosha, but I can still make fun of it.)
2:25 I’m surprised that “height over bore” is a thing in this game because he kept hitting the wall in front of him.
The ADSing mechanics were pretty neat for its time, not many games were doing 3D iron sights in their games in 2005. But from a game development point of view, 2005 was early days compared to how we make video games now, there are methodologies involved now that weren’t necessarily around by that point, I also say necessarily as it was in 2004 when the MDA framework paper became available, but that’s just one framework to the many that came thereafter.
America's Army 1-3 was fantastic and one of the most played games in the world regarding pvp FPS games since it was free.
Honestly, this is pretty impressive
They could at least have made realistic reload animations, as opposed to the guy hitting the bolt release _and_ the forward assist (only ever used in case of a jam) every time.
I thought I had heard somewhere that hitting the forward assist all the time is an actual part of US military training. So, maybe the game is right, but the drill is weird. Can someone correct me on this?
@@brianyoung3324 that would be dependent on a lot of different factors. I attended SOI with the marine corps, when we reloaded you slapped the fuckin bolt release and that's it.
Usually don't touch the charging handle or forward assist unless your shits jammed