America's Army

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Game Information

By: U.S. Army
Genre: Military, FPS
Release Date: September 20, 2002
Players: 1-32
Version: Free downloadable game. During testing I used version 2.8.3.

America's Army is a tactical multiplayer first-person shooter owned by the United States Government and released as a global public relations initiative to help with U.S. Army recruitment.

America's Army is relatively authentic in terms of visual and acoustic representation of combat, especially pertaining to its depictions of firearm usage and mechanics, but its critics have alleged that it fails to convey wartime conditions as accurately as it claims.

The game is a medium-paced tactical shooter, similar to the Tom Clancy series of shooters. Pacing is fast in the sense that players can be killed very quickly, but the players' movements are a lot slower and the gameplay contains fewer firefights than first-person shooters Unreal Tournament and Counter-Strike, especially on larger maps.

Widescreen Support

Method

America's Army supports some, but not all widescreen resolutions natively. If your native resolution is not selectable,

Go to <gameDir>\system, and edit ArmyOps.ini. Look for these lines:
FullscreenViewportX=xxxx
FullscreenViewportY=xxx

Edit them to set your resolution.

Unfortunately, the FOV seems to be fixed. Editing it the way you do in most Unreal engine games has no effect on the FOV, nor does typing in "fov xx" in the console.

Screen change

Vert -

1600x1200
1600x1200
1920x1200
1920x1200

Surround Gaming support

None

Known Issues

Condensed detailed report

MGL Classification Vert -
Widescreen method Native, .ini
Resolution support Full
Singleplayer anomalies None
Multiplayer support Full
Aspect ratio support Full
HUD stretch Stretch
Cut-scenes None
Calculated grade C

WSGF links

http://www.widescreengamingforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13407

External links

http://www.americasarmy.com/


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