on a similar note I have been told something about america’s army that old f2p game that was sponsored/made by the real life us military. The one i have a vague memory of where you could pick any side and the one u didnt pick would always be the terrorist bad guys but i might have misremembered that part. Anyway the anecdote i was told was they really made the soldiers play it IRL like as part of their training. may have been bs or might have been true either way they made action figures and trading cards kids could buy of real soldiers from it that killed people and got horribly injured whilst trying to kill said people. sick but not surprising. but it was actually a pretty good game and it was free so theres that
yep that was designed as a recruiting tool, basically an official us army counter-strike. It was exactly how you remember, both sides would be playing as the US army but to them the other team was always the terrorists
yea its accidental political commentary plus kind of messed up that they made it a good game for free that could run on mediocre computers almost as if they wanted a certain demographic to play 🤔 but im still torn between having good memories of those types of games as a kid and knowing how messed up the politics behind them are as an adult. nostalgia goggles are powerfull
