The Army’s project office for America’s Army has been located on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama for several years. There the Army manages the America’s Army software. They had onsite developers making trainers, simulators, and government applications built upon the America’s Army source code as well as contracted development of the video game at outside studios.
They Army has closed the contract with the game developers and Redstone Arsenal will now play host to the America’s Army game development and support. “This consolidation will allow us to gain efficiencies between our public and government applications” says the Army. This should be exciting news to future game developers in the Huntsville area. This will be sad news to some of the hardcore America’s Army game fans and, of course, fans of the studio which made America’s Army 3.
After several months of delay, America’s Army 3 was released on June 17, 2009 as was built upon the Unreal 3 game engine. The free download of America’s Army 3 is available at http://www.americasarmy.com. The Army has reported 20,000,000 game instances of America’s Army 3 during one day.
After a delayed launch with many plaguing bugs, America’s Army 3 is off to a solid start and is averaging a 8.0 out of 10 in critical reviews. It will have to compete with Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 which releases on PS3, XBOX, and PC in November.