America's Army 3 Analysis

America’s Army 3 is video game designed by the United States military. It is a first person shooter game, in which players compete in multiplayer missions in a fictional conflict. In the game, the fictional Czervenian government has started a war, creating a refugee crisis. The US Army has been sent in to intervene and prevent a humanitarian crisis (America’s). The game was created by the US Army to serve as a recruiting tool, so the target audience is a teenage male. Their intent in creating it is to glamorize the experience of the US Army with a first person shooter video game. The military is likely pretty successful in reaching their target audience with this game. While there are certainly some people using this game that aren’t in this demographic, it is likely mostly people in the target demographic. The game is consumed pretty enthusiastically, as it is a first person shooter, and they cannot be consumed with partial attention. Consuming this game is a group effort, because the game consists …show more content…
The description of the game is relatively in depth, and mentions that the UN is struggling in this country and they requested the assistance of the US to help prevent a humanitarian crisis (America’s; Rosenberg). However, this game chooses to focus entirely on the fighting and not on the geopolitical aspects of modern war. This is one area in which the storyline could improve. The US Army is often the primary mechanism for distributing US foreign policy, and it would serve this game well to reflect that as an important reality of the US military.
America’s Army 3 has important geopolitical ramifications. First, it recruits US teens to fight in wars by showing them how fighting is fun. While the game was poorly received by critics, it was obviously successful enough for the military to produce a trilogy, as opposed to a single