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Did you know that the United States Army is turning to RealTime Immersive Inc. and CryEngine 3 for its training needs? The figure being thrown around for this project is $57 million, which sounds all too believable.

Two trailers for the Dismounted Soldier Training System have come out this month, the first of which shows the impressive visual fidelity through real-time sequences. The second trailer, viewable below, focuses more on the technology of CryEngine 3.

Visually, it looks the part, but I have to wonder how player death is handled. In many ways, this simulator looks like our industry's most popular games. One would suspect there's less of an emphasis on being a one-man army capable of walking off bullet wounds, however.

US Army Dismounted Soldier Training System is the greatest game you’ll never play [PC Gamer via Shacknews]








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Mr Andy Dixon's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 16:39
Mr Andy Dixon
Well, at least it's money better spent than the NASCAR endorsement...
Epic-Kx's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 16:40
Epic-Kx
I'm actually interested to see how this develops. It won't be realistic, but it'll be damn close.

I wanna see a military shooter that can boast Realism and emotional tension on the battlefield. Like, a band of brothers on a mission in the Vietnam era, complete with shooting child assassins in the face & limbs blowing off. So, a Full Metal Jacket game.

Also, Crytek UK is working on this I believe...somewhere, one guy in Cry UK. Is making Timesplitters 4....:(
Zyk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 16:44
Zyk
It looks reminds me a bit of VBS2 but with far better graphics. Hopefully it wont take over for VBS2 because Bohemia Interactive Australia is awesome.
mix's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 16:44
mix
If there was blue saturation I would have said BF3, lol.

Very cool though and the idea of only taking a "single bullet" in a video game would be intense. I paintball and even that is crazy.
lAboMbA's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 16:48
lAboMbA
< Frostbite 2.0
BrowneyeWinkin's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 16:51
BrowneyeWinkin
Pliskin : A virtual grunt of the digital age. That's just great.

Raiden : That's far more effective than live exercises.

Pliskin : You don't get injured in VR, do you? Every year, a few soldiers die in field exercises.

Raiden : There's pain sensation in VR, and even a sense of reality and
urgency. The only difference is that it isn't actually happening.

Pliskin : That's the way they want you to think, to remove you from the fear that goes with battle situations.

War as a video game...
what better way to raise the ultimate soldier?
Rammstein's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 17:20
Rammstein
BRB joining the Army just so I can play this
HappyDayWarrior's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 17:37
HappyDayWarrior
57 million, huh?

How much is the DLC?
VolksONER's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 17:49
VolksONER
Wow that is impressive. When can I play it?
RaginDude's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 19:03
RaginDude
Shit if only there was a game like that.
Commandant Oreo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 19:25
Commandant Oreo
any chance for a 360 or Wii U release?
ezxhaton's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/23/2011 20:32
ezxhaton
Looks way better than the ol' EST 2000. Ya'll can have it though.
PalinRMA's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/24/2011 00:06
PalinRMA
AA4 can't wait!
tekbunny's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/24/2011 03:45
tekbunny
looks ugly, shoulda used new frostbite engine.
Commandant Oreo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/24/2011 09:44
Commandant Oreo
tekbunny:it's not about graphics.
cockaroach's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/24/2011 16:40
cockaroach
another reason i wish, as a tax payer, that i could choose to allocate where my taxes are spent, so that i could make sure they don't go to something like this
Knife Von Ludwin's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/24/2011 22:47
Knife Von Ludwin
War as a video game... damn beat to the punch.
L1M0's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/25/2011 08:07
L1M0
Maybe they also develop new ultra-realistic-force-feedback-stuff, for example a gamepad with a gun in it: If your player character gets hit by a bullet, the gamepad doesnt vibrate anymore, it simply shoots a hole into you...awesome,huh?
But seriously, real-life war sucks, because you cant simply switch weapons or arent even allowed to simply grab two .45pistols and go akimbo and worst thing is you have no quicksave/load or restart level option in your pause m.. ah crap! see! they dont even have pause menu in real war!
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