The Real Reason....

entwisi · 24-01-2005, 13:11

..... we've all been playing First player shoot em ups for the last 10 years.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4199935.stm

Imagine, a whole army of spotty teenagers(and some not so spotty or young) lining up to play for 'real'.

Doom3 Pah, bring on Baghdad!!!

mthead · 24-01-2005, 13:20

good idea with the robots though entwisi

WillowTheWhisp · 24-01-2005, 13:43

I've seen the bomb disposing version in action and it was .................... interesting.

Margaret Pilkington · 24-01-2005, 19:27

I must be getting on a bit because I don't know what the hell you are talking about!

entwisi · 24-01-2005, 22:39

The US army are looking to trial remote control robot 'soldiers'. The robot has onboard video cameras and the images are relayed back to a user sat behind a screen who is controlling the robot and its weapons. I was trying to suggest that instead of all these kids fighting imaginary computer generated creatures they could do it for real. So in reality those of us who play games liek Doom/2/3, Unreal, Half Life, Wolfenstein etc have in effect unknowingly been in training to be soldiers.

HTH, HAND

vorlon24 · 25-01-2005, 08:40

Does playing GTA help as well? I can do drive-bys!