America’s Army: "Proving Grounds" Launched on Steam
By Lori Mezoff, Army Game Studio
Oct. 2, 2015
For more than 13 years, young adults have learned about the U.S. Army by playing the America’s Army game series.
The fourth game, “Proving Grounds,” originally released on beta in August 2013, is now available, free, on Steam at (http://store.steampowered.com/app/203290/).
More than 14 million players have registered for accounts since the original release of “America’s Army: Operations” in 2002, logging more than 270 million hours playing the games.
The games have inspired some to visit the GoArmy site and meet with recruiters, and provided civilians with an inside perspective and a virtual role in today’s high-tech Army.
The four games reflect the bedrocks of Soldiering, to include adherence to Army Values, the importance of training and individual development, leadership, and the necessity to work as a team in small unit missions.
Recruiters have used the games at Army events to open channels of communication with young adults who have questions for Soldiers after the playing the game.
“Proving Ground” incorporates the best features of all previous versions. It stresses current Army small unit tactical maneuvers and training.
Set in a fictional country, the Republic of the Ostregals, prospects play the role of an 11B, infantryman, practicing combat maneuvers at JTC Griffin, a fabricated training military operations in an urban terrain environment.
This training is crucial to the player’s success as part of a Long Range Combined Arms Recon unit, a full spectrum team embarking on a special mission’s operation behind enemy lines.
Players sharpen their small unit maneuver skills in battle drill exercises where they learn to work as a team. They can also try their skills at larger forward line operation missions.
Players use realistic equipment and military hardware such as such as the M9A1 and M1911 Pistol, Remington 870 MCS shotgun, M14EBR-RI sniper rifle, M24 sniper rifle, M4A1 and the M249 Saw.
They can also try the M67 fragmentation grenade, M106 Fast Obscurant Grenade and the M84 Stun Grenade, as well as optics that include the M68 Close Combat Optic, M553 Holographic Weapon Sight, M150 ACOG 4x Optic, Elcan M145 and Ghost Ring Sight.
The game includes 18 maps and five mission types -- C4, Take and Hold, Extraction, and Activate, and allows fans to create and share maps and missions.
By Lori Mezoff, Army Game Studio
Oct. 2, 2015
For more than 13 years, young adults have learned about the U.S. Army by playing the America’s Army game series.
The fourth game, “Proving Grounds,” originally released on beta in August 2013, is now available, free, on Steam at (http://store.steampowered.com/app/203290/).
More than 14 million players have registered for accounts since the original release of “America’s Army: Operations” in 2002, logging more than 270 million hours playing the games.
The games have inspired some to visit the GoArmy site and meet with recruiters, and provided civilians with an inside perspective and a virtual role in today’s high-tech Army.
The four games reflect the bedrocks of Soldiering, to include adherence to Army Values, the importance of training and individual development, leadership, and the necessity to work as a team in small unit missions.
Recruiters have used the games at Army events to open channels of communication with young adults who have questions for Soldiers after the playing the game.
“Proving Ground” incorporates the best features of all previous versions. It stresses current Army small unit tactical maneuvers and training.
Set in a fictional country, the Republic of the Ostregals, prospects play the role of an 11B, infantryman, practicing combat maneuvers at JTC Griffin, a fabricated training military operations in an urban terrain environment.
This training is crucial to the player’s success as part of a Long Range Combined Arms Recon unit, a full spectrum team embarking on a special mission’s operation behind enemy lines.
Players sharpen their small unit maneuver skills in battle drill exercises where they learn to work as a team. They can also try their skills at larger forward line operation missions.
Players use realistic equipment and military hardware such as such as the M9A1 and M1911 Pistol, Remington 870 MCS shotgun, M14EBR-RI sniper rifle, M24 sniper rifle, M4A1 and the M249 Saw.
They can also try the M67 fragmentation grenade, M106 Fast Obscurant Grenade and the M84 Stun Grenade, as well as optics that include the M68 Close Combat Optic, M553 Holographic Weapon Sight, M150 ACOG 4x Optic, Elcan M145 and Ghost Ring Sight.
The game includes 18 maps and five mission types -- C4, Take and Hold, Extraction, and Activate, and allows fans to create and share maps and missions.
