Military training is never this fun.
The British military has long been using digital simulations of war to train British soldiers for actual combat. However, the surge of more superior commercial war games makes the British Ministry of Defense (MoD) consider adapting those in the market today than having one of its own.
MoD admitted that Playstation and Xbox generation trainees are finding it hard concentrate using military simulation wars after experiencing the almost real simulations of commercial games. Now, the military considers buying the technology of big gaming companies to use in the military training of British soldiers, such as those used in the games Battlefield 3, Kill Zone 3 and Call of Duty. This was revealed by KITE (Knowledge Information Test Environment) which is tasked by the MoD to put the military back in the forefront of simulation training.
KITE said though that there is still a big difference between military simulation and the commercial games out there. A commercial game is for entertainment and a military simulation is for a real training. Hence, simulation training by the military should be as realistic as possible compared with the real war on the field.
KITE believes that realistic simulation will make the MoD incur less cost since the basic skills of a trainee can already be enhance during the simulation training, thus requiring lesser time on actual training.
You want to get into the military? Never mind making those hundred push-ups. Start your training by getting one of those military games.
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“You want to get into the military? Never mind making those hundred push-ups. Start your training by getting one of those military games.”
I suspect what this article is getting at is that the immersion factor (graphics, sounds) of modern games are better than in their custom military sims. But in terms of gameplay actual military ops are a long, looooooooooooooong way from what you see in BF3 and CoD (online or off). If someone wanted to give ArmA 2 a good shake that’d help them some, and the Op Flash series isn’t too bad either, but nothing else comes close. Anyone who trained up for war on CoD or BF would get a pretty nasty surprise when they hit real training ;). Of course, it would be possible to adapt the software to make it more realistic (realistic recoil, counting the numbers of bullets you have in each clip, realistic movement, realistic damage from getting shot, and of course any game out there except for KZ2/3 would need a huge improvement to the AI to make it come anywhere near close to realistic), and this’ll be what MoD’s all about.
Can’t believe they seem to forget Arma 2 or VBS when it comes to war simulation.
They used to say that Arma or Flashpoint are too realistic or boring for the couch warriors out there. Now, they mention realism+potential military contract, Arma and Flashpoint are NOT even mentioned. It’s all CoD or BF3.