Video Games in the Military

Abstract

Home entertainment video games are making their way in the military system . The concept of battlefield-based videogames is contrabuting to the making of military training tools and applications , which are used by war fighters , military instructors and students nationwide . The research gives an insight to this current transition in the field of entertainment videogames and military applications

Video games in the military

An interesting area of transition is being brought up in the field of commercial and military applications in simulation software . Commercial game developers have done such a

good job creating battlefield-based entertainment for personal computers and video game consoles that military decision-makers started to use some of these games as the basis for tactical training tools

To formalize the adoption of commercial war games into military training tools , the Defense Science Technology Agency has been involved with the Singapore Air Forces to use commercial computer games , especially those that mimic battlefield scenarios , for military classroom applications

Many of the tactical training software now used by the US Armed Forces started life as recruitment tools or as commercial games (Browne , 2008

The 'American Army

The 'American Army ' is game platform which began as an outreach tool providing players an inside look to the army . But it has been now cultivated into a new generation of inexpensive , PC-based web-deployable , highly interactive training tool . It has extended its reach to support war fighters , instructors and students throughout the army

The 'American Army 's ' platform is currently being used in...