America's Army for 360

By Robert Purchese Published 12 June, 2007

Become a True Soldier.

Red Storm, the team responsible for multiplayer in GRAW 1 and 2, has revealed it's working on a new America's Army game exclusively for Xbox 360.

It's called True Soldiers and is expected in the US this September, although publisher Ubisoft was unavailable to confirm a European date.

Team-play is the big focus of the title - as you might expect from an officially licensed Army simulation game - and online battles will be won and lost based on tactics and communication, rather than rocket jumps and chainsaw attacks.

You'll be able to play as one of five classes: Rifleman, Grenadier, Auto-Rifleman, Sniper, and Team Leader. These all progress in roughly the same way, by earning experience points for completing training events, objectives or entire missions. Once you rack them up, you can spend them in one of four main skills, each branching out into a further two sub-skills. For instance, Snipers will want points in Marksmanship, as well as Focus and Observation sub-skills, and possibly some Stealth.

Squad Leaders will make the plays, so to speak. They can order in artillery strikes and coordinate attacks using interactive maps and reconnaissance data. Team Leaders report to them and order their Fire Teams around based on those instructions.

Alongside standard team Deathmatch on Xbox Live there will be eight co-operative missions for up to 16 people to take part in. There's also a new mode called Competitive Training that puts you up against up to 15 others on one of three different target ranges. You'll then have to blow the stuffing out of anything that pops up, like targets or vehicles. You can choose to have a time limit or a score limit, it's up to you - it's also a great place for clans to hone their abilities.

Red Storm also has a grand plan to reward honest, helpful players, and to increase active socialisation online. It's based around a system that rewards you with "Honor" points when you play, well, honourably [surely "honorably" -Ed]. And these will dictate your rank and standing on the all important leaderboards.

You can earn points through respect tokens, too, which are are dished out at the end of games. And it's up to you which helpful or nice player you want to reward with your share. Recruiting people into your clan, or Army Unit, will also net you respect. So in summary, the more you sew, the more you reap; help and be rewarded for it.

It all sounds like it's making for an engrossing and realistic Army Simulation experience. But whether we'll actually see a release here after the previous version was mysteriously canned is yet to be seen.

We'll keep you posted.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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Comments (28) Latest comment 5 years ago

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  • chupachups #1 5 years ago

    Wasn't this originally a rather worrying recruiting tool for the real US Army?

  • jonsaan #2 5 years ago

    Sounds like perfect 360 fodder. God help you on LIVE with this one.

  • Rirekon #3 5 years ago

    Played the PC version but never got into it tbh, there's something about taking a military training simulator and making it a commercial game.

  • PearOfAnguish #4 5 years ago

    This game has an even greater number of angry American teenagers than Counter-Strike, plus hordes of armchair infantry who wish they could join the army for real, and actual members of the military who like to spend their spare time shooting virtual terrorists. And most of them are vehemently right-wing and jingoistic, so not only do you get called a fag, you'll also be treated to their informed opinions on the French, 'towelheads' and, naturally, those damned liberals. It's great.

  • mkreku #5 5 years ago

    Yes, because the Xbox 360 needs more fake-macho shooters.

  • smoison #6 5 years ago

    There's a reason this is free on PC...... it sucks.

  • Moogrose #7 5 years ago

    FFS, we've seen nothing of it yet - lets not speculate eh?

  • Dizzy #8 5 years ago

    It is rather popular on PC.... so a logical decision to port to 360.

  • aldo_14 #9 5 years ago

    Can you play as the unmarred-sex-liking godless liberal islamofascist terrorist hippy anti-globalisation frenchy communist pinko scum?
    Edited by 2 at 12/06/07 @ 12:23

  • UGhost #10 5 years ago

    They are letting the freedom-hating French publish it?!?! Goddammit!!

  • MrBiggles #11 5 years ago

    America FUCK YEAH!!! you WILL buy this game, and you WILL go to Iraq and come home in a body bag, THAT'S A ORDER SON!!!
    Edited by 1 at 12/06/07 @ 12:44

  • Walshicus #12 5 years ago

    Now that the French have Sarkozy - who likes America - in charge, it's a new ball game. Elect me to office here in England and I'll make Britain the new France! Hated by America but happy with sunshine and lots of wine. I can see my election slogan now: "Walsh will make YOU French!"
    Edited by 1 at 12/06/07 @ 12:46

  • PearOfAnguish #13 5 years ago

    I will vote for Walsh.

    We need to tell the Americans to get to fuck so we can start getting chummy with our European neighbours.

  • Britesparc Verified Creative, ITV #14 5 years ago

    I like the idea of the Honours system. Hopefully it'll put a stop to whiny-arsed American teenagers calling me a cracker.

  • RedPanda #15 5 years ago

    Post deleted at 14:31:59 28-01-2012

  • The-Bodybuilder #16 5 years ago

    Do I get to torture....er, I mean "interrogate" Guantanamo Bay prisoners and break the Geneva Convention?

  • belziah #17 5 years ago

    EG's keyboard must have been slathered irony whilst typing that out. almost flavoursome.

  • The-Bodybuilder #18 5 years ago

    YVAN EHT NIOJ, YVAN ETH NIOJ,



    YVAN ETH NIOJ.

    Or in this case, YMRA.

  • ChromeMud #19 5 years ago

    I think 'Quake Wars' and 'Half-Life - Team Fortess' have all the goodness to expect
    in a team game with individual characters to play.
    Another 'me too' title or something really different...I'll wait 'n' see.

  • DanWhitehead #20 5 years ago

    Do I get to torture....er, I mean "interrogate" Guantanamo Bay prisoners and break the Geneva Convention?

    No, you press the Right Shoulder Button and have them airlifted into the care of a friendly regime where such things may - or may not - take place. We couldn't possibly say.

  • SBfistfun #21 5 years ago

    "And most of them are vehemently right-wing and jingoistic, so not only do you get called a fag, you'll also be treated to their informed opinions on the French, 'towelheads' and, naturally, those damned liberals. It's great. "

    OOh sounds like a must buy!

  • The-Bodybuilder #22 5 years ago

    @ DanWhiteHead

    So I'm guessing there will levels based on shipping prisoners to somalia?
    Sounds like "interrogating" prisoners should be suited to the wii's controls.
    Edited by 1 at 12/06/07 @ 13:59

  • BadBoyBonner #23 5 years ago

    Worrying Times.

    Team America may have been produced using puppets in stead of live actors, but the message is as real as it gets.

    While America’s obsession with self love and approval is no where near Hitler inspired levels; nothing ever hit me quite so hard about the Americans as when I visited Seaworld last year.

    Waiting for the “Believe – Killer whale Shamu” show to start (awesome when it got going) I could not quite “believe” that all off a sudden just before it started there was a military propaganda movie about the struggle in the far east, live voice over and host at the end asking all the soldiers to stand up and wave and insisting everyone to clap them etc.

    Still not quite got over it, propaganda masquerading under the cloak of noble gesture, at a family show.

    Other than that would highly recommend Busch Gardens and Seaworld – riding the Shei-Kra (5 times) is quite the experience!!
    Edited by 2 at 12/06/07 @ 14:44

  • richardiox #24 5 years ago

    Bonus points for teamkilling on this one then?

  • PearOfAnguish #25 5 years ago

    Bonner, I believe several books have been written about the similarity between Germany right before WW2 and the current climate in America.
    Edited by 1 at 12/06/07 @ 15:32

  • Kenshin001 #26 5 years ago

    Do any games include getting your legs blown off by IEDs? Just curious.

  • chupachups #27 5 years ago

    "Can you play as the unmarred-sex-liking godless liberal islamofascist terrorist hippy anti-globalisation frenchy communist pinko scum?"

    Yes, if you type in FLUFFYKIWIS backwards.

  • Fishtank #28 5 years ago

    chupachups said:
    "Wasn't this originally a rather worrying recruiting tool for the real US Army?"

    i concur. always thought it was dodgy that the us army is marketing entertainment products. they have a nascar team as well you know. i wonder what jack thompson thinks of this violent game deliberately marketed at vulnerable teenagers...