Desperate Army To Hold Graphic Kill and Murder Spree Video Game Contest
Posted in H.L. News, Main Blog (All Posts) on July 3rd, 2007 8:32 am by HL
The US Army, in a ever more desperate attempt to land recruits for Bush’s debacle in Iraq, Afghanistan, and possibly Iraq, has decided to stage a video game contest to try to lure young iimpressionable kids who they hope are too stupid to know the difference between killing on a video screen, and killing in real life. I’m sure they won’t mention that in the real Army the enemy shoots back, and wants to kill you even more they you want to kill them. Starting tomorrow on the 4th of July, The army will be handing out thousands of dollars to the kid who can kill, maim, blow up, and dismember the most “enemy’s.” in order to get into the tournament the kids (who have to be at least 17) agree to be visited by an Army recruiter, who will tell every lie in the book in order to get the kid to sign up for the hell that is the U.S. Military. Here is an excerpt form the article in Raw Story
Gears of War is one of a dozen titles in which players can compete for a $200,000 prize pool in the inaugural Army Gaming Championships, set to begin July 4. The venture provides the Army another avenue to reach tech-savvy recruits — though participants must be willing to be contacted by an Army recruiter — as it struggles to maintain its ranks in the fifth year of the Iraq war.
“That is where the kids are. It’s a venue where we can tell the Army’s story,” Louise Eaton, a media and Web specialist with the Army, tells RAW STORY. Video Games, especially the Pentagon-produced America’s Army, provide “an experience in the simulation world of what the Army’s like.”
Yeah except, as I said, the part about you getting killed. Heres more.
Gears of War is rated M, meaning it is inappropriate for children under age 17, and Web site Double Viking rated it the fourth-most-violent video game ever made, calling the game’s gore “as graphic as it comes.”
“Enemies limbs are often perforated and torn off by a barrage of machine gun fire and close encounters usually result in a chainsaw to the neck, leaving SOMEBODY headless,” Double Viking says. “Otherwise enemies simply explode into bits of blood and bone, with much of the end product splattering all over the camera – and everywhere else.”
Sounds like a fun time hey, Gotta love the Army, always coming up with new ways to bring in the cannon fodder.
July 3rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
It is a great game
I really like it
And if you are stupid enough to believe it is anything like serving you should join up.
no real loss
July 4th, 2007 at 6:07 pm
and to think that congress has been blaming a lot of the violant crimes on video games. If that is the case thanwhy wouldn’t they believe it is real HL
July 6th, 2007 at 4:11 pm
OK HL why is it ok for sony and all the other game makers to make violent games and than you say it’s not right for the military to do the same. what is the difference between the Ghost Recon games ( a fun game to play by the way) and what the military put out??? There are more bloody games than just Ghost Recon out like Mortal Kombat
July 20th, 2007 at 8:59 am
The US Military is not “hell”, as you put it. Have you even been in the military? I doubt that
you have. And what is wrong with recruiters doing their job? Nobody forced me to serve my
6 years in the Army, I could have said no, I chose to say yes. Assuming that young people
cannot tell the dfference between a video game, and real life, is an arrogant insult to the
youth of America, who are qute obviously far more intelligent than you are HL.