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America's Army: True Soldiers xbox360 Game Reviews
America's Army: True Soldiers
Critic Score
Metascore: 43 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
6.8 out of 10
based on 11 reviews
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The multiplayer mode is a key feature of America’s Army: True Soldiers with eight maps developed by Red Storm Entertainment and full Xbox LIVE online gaming service Clan support, so teams will be able to quickly jump online and compete. Players immerse themselves within the true infantry experience of a modern Soldier. As a Soldier in single-player mode, advance through your career and take on roles such as Rifleman, Grenadier, Automatic Rifleman and Sniper. Red Storm and the Army have worked together to make sure that the America’s Army: True Soldiers gameplay experience is an authentic Army experience. The America’s Army: True Soldiers game accurately portrays the values that guide Soldiers in the U.S. Army, by specifically incorporating gameplay based on mission accomplishment, teamwork, leadership, rules of engagement and respect for life and property. Just like in real combat, honor and respect must be earned, and in the game, the Play-Lead-Recruit feature allows players to earn respect as they move up through the ranks and become true leaders. Teammates can award points to other team members who play honorably and jump in when the mission is on the line. As the most realistic U.S. Army experience on a console, America’s Army: True Soldiers features high-tech equipment, including a Blue Force Tracker that improves recognition of targets while increasing information to the player. Additional Intel will be gathered by the Raven UAV and displayed on their Blue Force Tracker. AI teammates can share Intel via in-game voice-over. [Ubisoft]

PUBLISHER: Ubisoft
DEVELOPER: Red Storm Entertainment
GENRE(S): First-Person Shooter
PLAYERS: 16
ESRB RATING: T (Teen)
RELEASE DATE: November 15, 2007

What The Critics Said

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50
GameSpot
The game that began as a free PC download has made its way to retail shelves with this Xbox 360 iteration, but it looks as if most of the fun was lost in transit.
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50
GotNext
Even with a solid multiplayer though, there's no reason for America's Army: True Soldiers to be priced and marketed in the same class as other AAA FPS games available on the Xbox 360.
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49
Planet Xbox 360
In total, the whole Basic Training experience lives up to the 'basic' in the title, and will take you an hour to complete.
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48
Cheat Code Central
The best area of the game is the online multiplayer, but even that pales in comparison to other possibilities like Call of Duty 4 or Halo 3.
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45
Gamers' Temple
This game is essentially a bargain bin Xbox game and it is insulting to see it with a regular Xbox 360 game price tag.
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45
Official Xbox Magazine
It's simply too tedious to work as either a game or as propaganda. [Holiday 2007, p.78]
44
Game Chronicles
America’s Army: True Soldiers is essentially a poor man’s version of Ghost Recon or Vegas, but you can’t tell from the asking price.
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40
Worth Playing
The only thing that's even remotely fun about the title is the multiplayer, and that can be had on nearly any other 360 shooter worth its weight.
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40
Team Xbox
A breakdown of the core gameplay mechanic will haunt players early and often in America’s Army: True Soldiers.
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37
IGN
It’s the kind of game that makes you want to write 43 and a half pages of cuss words, slam your head on your desk 13 times and hope and pray that you don’t remember having ever played it when you wake up. This game is just plain bad.
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30
Games Radar
We jumped online on several occasions and it appears there are so few people playing online that we found the same dudes in a lobby on totally different nights. It’s little wonder though why there are so few soldiers playing; in this game, being a soldier sucks.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now! The average user rating for this game is 6.8 (out of 10) based on 51 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

John V. gave it a0:
Realism...? If this is realism then what is stupidity? Okay first off, this game BLOWS! This game should be shown to the Next-Generation of developers as "What not to do". The A.I. in this game was that a retarded 3-year old. I ran out into the street, with 5 enemies surronding me, firing blindly into the air. You know what they did? 2 of them just stood there, while the other 3 shot at me, killing 2 of their other teammates in the process. The playability was horrid. Instead of feeling like a highly trained, well equiped soldier, I felt like a crippled old man. Overall, If you want a realistic, fun, shooter, go with either Call Of Duty 4 or Rainbow Six: Vegas 2.

Charlie R. gave it a9:
The only and best military simulation available on XBOX 360. Really fun once you give it a chance. We've been having a blast. Oh yeah, the split-screen online multi-player rules!

SCZARface gave it a0:
I now want to kill myself for playing such a retarded game. Theres nothing left in this world. The destruction of humanity and earth has been created.

Dave K. gave it a3:
Dont let these 4's and above fool you. you can't even kill people. they lie their for a minute until a teammate helps them. and THEN they die if no one comes... you can walk up to them while they lay on the ground and shoot them in the head and nothing happens, they still lay there, waiting for help... stupid.

James B. gave it a0:
Patience, realism, and accuracy have no part in this game. Your character always controls like he's on ice skates, and the enemies, when their aim isn't dead-on accurate, are borderline moronic. Two guys hid next to a rock, I shot one from less than ten feet away, and the other didn't even notice. The graphics are some of the weakest this generation. I'm not a stickler for graphics, but I don't think it's fair to get shot by an enemy that has yet to pop into the environment. In short, the only reason this isn't the worst game on the 360 is because Vampire Rain is on the 360. This is the first game I've ever returned and demanded my money back for. Don't make my mistake.

Tom gave it a5:
Based on realism? Are you kidding me. Realism needs to start with controls, and this game feels more like controling a Mech more than an elite fighting soldier. While I agree with some comparisons to the original Ghost Recon series, this game simply makes me want to go play other far better LAST GEN tactical shooters like the last America's Army for the Xbox or even Operation Flashpoint, both of which played better than this. Those of you praising the efforts of this game are mearly in denial for having purchased this package of trash.

Shawn gave it an8:
The game has a few issues, but not nearly enough to keep me from playing it. It is a great tactical FPS if you get into a room with the right people, and work as a team.

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