America's Army Awarded 5 Guiness World Records >

	2009/02/04 20:00:23: Posted by DM
	The U.S. Army today announced that their Nazi-esque subconscious brainwashing recruitment tool, America's Army, has been honored with no less than 5 Guiness World Records. The upcoming 2009 edition of the Guiness Book Of World Records: Gaming Edition, will hit shelves on February 4, 2009, and will contain the following five records: Largest Virtual Army, Most Downloaded War Video Game, Most Hours Spent Playing a Free Online Shooter, Earliest Military Website To Support A Video Game, and Largest Travelling Game Simulator -- all awarded to America's Army. As if the game was not already making too many youngsters into obedient cannon fodder! Click read more for the full info. PRESS RELEASE Silver Spring, MD February 4, 2009 - The U.S. Army today announced that its America's Army PC game, which lets players explore Soldiering in the U.S. Army, has been recognized with five records in the upcoming Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition. Guinness World Records 2009: Gamer's Edition, the second installment of the must-have "Gamer's Bible," will hit shelves February 4th with a list price of $21.95. The Gamer's Edition features the definitive collection of video game records, facts and trivia. The America's Army PC game received awards in the following categories: • Largest Virtual Army In January 2007, America's Army recruited its 8 millionth registered user; at the same time, the actual U.S. Army comprised just 519,472 Soldiers. This makes the virtual America's Army 15 times larger than the real thing! Today the game has over 9.7 million registered users. • Most Downloaded War Video Game According to official estimates, America's Army, in all its various iterations, has been downloaded 42,611,601 times. It is also the most downloaded game from Fileplanet.com, itself one of the most popular gaming download sites on the internet. The most recent version of the game was downloaded almost 2.4 million times between January and July 2008. • Most Hours Spent Playing a Free Online Shooter According to the U.S. Army, as of August 2008, gamers have spent 230,918,365 hours playing the PC version of America's Army. Gamers from over 60 countries have played America's Army since it was launched in 2002. • Earliest Military Website to Support a Video Game The website americasarmy.com is the first military website to support a video game series. America's Army is also the first multiplatform game to receive a government-licensed trademark. • Largest Travelling Game Simulator The Virtual Army Experience (VAE) is a highly modified version of America's Army that includes six life-size Humvees surrounded by multiple flat screens, with room for up to 50 participants. Mounted in the vehicles are modified light-gun weapons. The teams inside each vehicle, which shakes in reaction to nearby explosions, are tasked to drive supplies to a beleaguered group of aid workers in dangerous territory. The VAE takes up 1,811 m2 (19,500 square feet). The U.S Army recently announced the upcoming America's Army 3 game where every detail counts. America's Army 3 is the only free action game that delivers an authentic and entertaining Army experience by reflecting the training, technology, actions and career advancement of a Soldier within a unique exciting game experience. AA3, which will be rated T for Teen by the Entertainment Software Rating Board (ESRB), will be released in 2009. As with previous versions of America's Army, AA3 will be frequently updated to include new features and missions and to highlight new technologies being incorporated in today's Army. Using the state-of-the-art Unreal Engine 3, America's Army game developers brought the most popular trademark gameplay features from the previous versions to an all new level in AA3. Highlights include authentic weapons and technologies, realistic training and exciting gameplay missions. AA3 provides p layers new insights into the Army and Soldiering while making the game easier to play, easier to install and easier to download. The first edition of Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition was published in February 2008, and received critical accolade from gaming industry reviewers. PC World said: "if you truly want to prove your mettle in the gaming arena... your name in the Guinness World Records Gamer's edition is the only way to go about it," while critics from Popular Science praised: "If you care about gaming, something here is going to fascinate you." The latest book is currently available everywhere books are sold. Mll
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Nazi-esque? Seriously? Come on man, that's pretty weak.

Now, the Obama youth choir in California, that's Nazi-esque.

I never knew that this website was so Anti-American. I guess I'll just quit clicking ads.

wow shows how much you know about your German history DM, how bout you actually research the Nazi's first before commenting like that, very stupid.

Americanisation is much more of a subconscious tool rather than i'd say something such as the hitler youth was.

DM- How are you going to refer to personal responsibilty whenever video games are blamed for violence in the news, then turn around and refer to a game as brainwashing. You're comments are a bit scathing and dramatic for the subject matter on this one.

Wow, wasn't expecting people to be so touchy about that reference. Here I was being offended by how overly-contrived the Guinness records have gotten. I mean, they're getting so specific that you could make up a Guinness record for almost every single person, event, place or product to win. I'm pretty sure I hold the World record for being both the tallest and strongest person who has my birthday, went to my school and lives on my street...