Last Night on CNN

They had committee hearings on video game ratings. They showed little clips of some current games and I must admit they are violent - it seems like the goal is to show the most splashing blood. But I thought it interesting that no mention was made of the game put out by the army called America's Army: Special Forces. An army site had this to say:

The game has become an online phenomenon, consistently ranking among the most popular PC action games played online. Since its public release on July 4, 2002, more than 1.4 million players completed their virtual exploration of the basic training portion of the game and progressed to complete more than 280 million missions logging over 28 million hours of gameplay. America’s Army and America’s Army: Special Forces are rated T for Teen and are available as free CDs at local Army Recruiting stations, ROTC Detachments and Army events, and can also be downloaded from various partners listed on the www.americasarmy.com site.

One user on a blog had this review of the game:

"This game really does a good job of making you feel like a real US Army soldier…A nice touch to the game that I really enjoy is the tracer rounds which you can see flying above you when you’re pinned down. Fortunately for younger kids, the blood effects are nothing but puffs of red that last for half a second… The ragdoll physics are amazing in this game. It’s always satisfying to see someone crumpling onto themselves once you’ve lit them up…”