Nice article. One of the reasons I loved America’s Army was how over the top the propaganda really was. You could never play as a 'terrorist" or “bad guy”. You were always in America’s Army. Incredibly jingoistic and “patriotic”. It’s an absolutely fascinating game.
I always felt uncomfortable with how you see a terrorist in game but on the other end of the internet was another person seeing themselves as the americans.
very “you will kill who we tell you to kill and not worry about it”
Exactly. I actually heard on forums at the time that the game was actually acting as an anti-recruitment tool because of things like that. It was strangely trendsetting and ahead of the game in a lot of things that later milsims would adopt.
shooters such as Tomb Raider
Have they ever played Tomb Raider? Or any of the other games they’re ratting off.
Oh and Sid Meier games are racist.
