U.S. Navy introduces their own free PC game

[Everlost_MI]

The U.S. Navy has created a new free PC game entitled, Navy Training Exercises: Strike and Retrieve. The single player game tasks you with retrieving a downed spy plane in the Atlantic Ocean before it falls into enemy hands. The game can be downloaded at the official website. (http://nte.navy.com/index.jsp)

Here's a bit more about the game from an article (http://www.gamedaily.com/pc/article/?id=9025&game_id=4473&source=00001) at Gamedaily (http://www.gamedaily.com/).

When playing the game, you will have many puzzles to challenge you mentally. Some even require going to the Navy's website (Navy.com) to get certain codes to proceed. Obviously, since the game is a modern day recruiting tool, the level of difficulty present in the game might be a tad too much for younger games. Also, the game is single player, much unlike the Army's foray into games.

Lacking blood and gore, and instead focusing on testing the mental mettle of the gamer, Navy Training Exercises: Strike and Retrieve knows its audience, and will hopefully experience success similar to America's Army.

[Morratut]

Mmmm looks a bit strange but could be intresting :)

Now if you could leave your carrier battle group as a seal team with your sub. Get on a beach at midnight.Have a stealth fest and crack some skulls (this game has Riddick type combat).

Move into the base. Extract the playboy playmates(can someone tell me why they are there?).

Destroy the base and kill everyone in it.Call in a chopper for extraction.

Now that would be cool :D

[bapenguin]

Man...the old Seal Team game was so awesome....they need to make a sequel to that. :)

[Ph00p]

You'll get to play the gay sex simulator in your R&R time too I hear.

[Arcon]

You'll get to play the gay sex simulator in your R&R time too I hear.
like a "hot coffee" mod for this game?

[Subbacultcha]

Lacking blood and gore, and instead focusing on testing the mental mettle of the gamer

Huh... that description alienates about 90 percent of people who spend their time playing games. America's Army might be government propaganda too, but at least it's fun.

[Savok]

Huh... that description alienates about 90 percent of people who spend their time playing games. America's Army might be government propaganda too, but at least it's fun.
The Navy doesn't want moronic 12 year olds, I'm shocked.

[Subbacultcha]

The Navy doesn't want moronic 12 year olds, I'm shocked.

But I suppose the army wants short-sighted fatasses with carpal tunnel syndrome? :D


I wonder, is this thing a game or an aptitude test? Because if it is meant to be a test, there probably are easier ways to join the navy (namely, walk up to a recruiting officer and sign on the dotted line).

[Klade]

Its just a publicity stunt. The various military forces have been doing them for years. Video games are just the latest thing they are trying.

The screenshots on their website are very low quality. So either their game is filled with a lot of blocky polys and cartoonish graphics or they need to take some better screenshots. Actually from looking at the shots it looks a lot like a console game which makes me wonder if this is a port from a console release that will happen at the same time.

[Justin_McElroy]

If it's a recruiting trick, they're wasting their time. Just give me a free copy of Steel Battallion, I'll join your stupid team or whatever it is.

[mpsmith]

It's no America's Army.

[Orphiuchus]

I cant wait for the next generation of navy games. "Navy: deliver the marines"

[kokyunage]

Not sure why they are wasting money on it. Navy is currently having a recruiting surplus. Why? It's the safest division in the military. No one wants to be sent off to Iraq.

[XenonCJ]

Not sure why they are wasting money on it. Navy is currently having a recruiting surplus. Why? It's the safest division in the military. No one wants to be sent off to Iraq.I would think Airforce would be statistically the safest....

[bKangy]

I would think Airforce would be statistically the safest....

Flying a plane and swabbing the poop deck are entirely different beasts :)

[Mrbunchypants]

AA was good cuz it had internet play. and a way to compeat with each other. i don't see this being the case with this game.

[Savok]

Airforce is also the hardest Xenon. Though with the new Raptors that may change, as the pilots don't really have to do anything other then take off, fire stuff at dots on a screen and land. Still, get yourself in a Warthog and you really want to know what you're doing.

[Achilles]

Makes me proud to be an American. What other country is a video game publisher/developer? And America’s Army and Full Spectrum are good games on top of that. I’ll try this one out when I get home.

[snubber]

Yeah but most of the airforce isn't flying planes, they're supporting them, which sounds pretty safe to me. But yeah, Navy has to be quite safe too. Don't think too many conflicts involve many ship-to-ship naval battles anymore, although better be careful docking your ship in foregin ports, ala USS Cole.

[mister_slim]

You'll get to play the gay sex simulator in your R&R time too I hear.
Don't tell.
If it's a recruiting trick, they're wasting their time. Just give me a free copy of Steel Battallion, I'll join your stupid team or whatever it is.
Seriously. If America has the most high-tech military, why are we training everyone for the old warfare paradigms?

When Japan opens those mech silos we'll really get to bitch about misused military budgets.

[score]

yva neht nioj!

[mpsmith]

score: classic!

[Racknahm]

When Japan opens those mech silos we'll really get to bitch about misused military budgets.

I'm sure the military is quaking in their boots at the thought of a massive offensive from japan's tank division that can do nothing if it steps in a pothole and falls on it's side.

[Achilles]

I'm sure the military is quaking in their boots at the thought of a massive offensive from japan's tank division that can do nothing if it steps in a pothole and falls on it's side.Someone's not a licensed VT pilot. When you step in a pot hole and fall on your side you shift to neutral and give it some gas. Then wash your wind shield.

[Steve_Erhardt]

Airforce is also the hardest Xenon.
The Navy recruit is taking his flooding test, water spraying everywhere and filling the test room, he concentrates on his duty trying to stop the leaks and says to himself "I love this shit!"

The Army recruit is stalking through the woods with his team, slapping away mosquitoes and eating MREs between barrages of (simulated) enemy fire and says to himself "God DAMN I love this shit!"

The Marine recruit is slogging through the swamp with a 60lb pack, crawling through mud and eating bugs and says to himself "I LOVE this fucking shit!"

The Air Force recruit is in his air conditioned apartment and the cable goes out and he says to himself "What the hell is THIS shit?!"


---Joke told to me many many years ago by my Dad... 22 years in the Air Force. Says it's funny because it's true. ;)

[Savok]

From Blackadder Goes Fourth:

I have no desire to hang around with a bunch of upper-class delinquents, do twenty minutes work, and then spend the rest of the day loafing about in Paris drinking gallons of champagne and having dozens of moist, pink, highly-experienced young French peasant girls galloping up and down my . . . Hang on!

Still, though flying the planes takes a lot, support would be pretty safe, if intense as they pretty much have to act as a pit crew in some places.