Said From Experience....or should i say HONOR...
Got AA about less than a month after it was availble....enjoyed it(pipeline and weaponscache were great)
It was the "new" Unreal engine at the time that got me hooked and of course its free....
Now the realism is bar-none and the graphics amazing but there is a DARK SIDE to this game...
I reached 43 honor pts a while back (before the special forces patch came out)...and realized that the RECRUITMENT CAPACITY was preparing us for the very ILLEGAL INVASION we are now(IRAQ)in and how insidious the 'FREE ASPECT' Is to immpressionable kids...
UNderstand i played and enjoyed this game as a basic first-person shooter BEFORE the invasion of IRAQ...and while we were LIGIT in Afghanistan it was an inspiring game giving me an appreciation of are armed forces even more.
But its the lil things that get u...and if u didnt get the game PRE-INVASION u wont remember the ETHNIC TURBAN WEARING OP-FORCE skins they had for the famous or should i say INFAMOUSLY NAMED INSURGENT Camp MAP! OF course noW that everything has hit the fan...the skins were 'MYSTERIOUSLY' changed to SWARTHY SERBIANS or SOME other 'LESS dark-skinned' ethnicity.
THe point isnt the gameplay(top-notch) or graphics but the fact that this isnt PRIVATELY FUNDED FOR PROFIT!....ITS PAID FOR BY ALL AMERICANS THROUGH TAXES!....So the content has to be unfortunately regulated for mass consuption...but most people have no clue as to this games nature or financing...especially parents.
IF this is boring to u then tough...Reality sucks...but video games are to me an ESCAPE ...no matter how much killing i do IN GAME...and no matter how much disgusting content is out there(Manhunt,POstal,etc,,,,)have at it!....But those games arent made by THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, and therefore have different standards of content than AA...which is paid for by people who would be offended at thier taxdollars going to a war promotiontool disguised as a FUN fps game...W00t!...which it is
So ,yes other game companies can do anything they want ...skies the limit on OFFENSIVE CONTENT(u can buy or not buy)....but my final point is that this game is FREE and made availble to the masses(kids bored @home) and isnt all that is seems.
This is just my opinion ....LOVE WAR HATE WAR>>>>JUST fIGHT WHEN U have to....
OH and enjoy the game ...