France might not see eye to eye with the United States current foreign policy, but France-based publisher Ubisoft obviously sees no reason not to distribute America’s Army. Ubisoft today announced it would be bringing America’s Army: True Soldier to the Xbox 360 this September. True Soldier marks the second console iteration of the US Army’s recruitment-minded tool since Ubisoft struck a deal to publish the wargame back in 2004.
In an accommodating act, Ubisoft has tapped military-minded Red Storm Entertainment to develop True Soldier. Red Storm’s latest credits include Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2 for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, and PlayStation Portable. Red Storm and the US Army are hoping to create an authentic, real-world experience in True Soldier, and the Ubisoft-owned developer will be bringing over its GRAW2 engine to help see that happen.

It has been confirmed in a game-play demo that Baker, Paddock, Hartsock, Corrion, Courtland and Zanovich will be in it.
In the pre-E3 trailer, a civilian is shown communicating with the sergeant to alert him of a hiding soldier behind a clothesline, indicating civilian interaction will be implemented.
Also, Matt Baker now has the ability to use heavy weapons. In the E3 trailer, he is shown ordering a bazooka round to be fired upon an 88. He can also make use of machine gun squads, mortar teams and a radio man who can call in artillery or air support.
There are new moves called Brotherhood Moments where your character is shortly taken over by a computer and catches one of the players fallen comrades. “Bro-Mos´” are meant to show the bonds between the fighting men of the time period.
The player’s weapon swings around more realistically as it would in real life instead of just staying centered (or moving slightly). This is due to the new camera system. Gearbox describes it as a 3rd person camera placed inside the players head. This means that they can work with a whole avatar and not a fixed camera and disembodied arms holding a gun. Because of that Baker’s limbs will be more closely tied to the game physics.
The player can now go prone as well as crouch and stand. Only crouching and standing were available in previous games in the series.
On most of the missions there will be no objective marker, which is different from almost all other shooters. Instead the player will have to rely on clues presented in-game as they move towards their target. The 10 minute trailer showed examples of this. The player had the objective of destroying two German 88´s, but did not know exactly where they were. Over the horizon were flak puffs and when a group of U.S. planes flew over, one was shot down, suggesting the position of the objective. Also, as the player got closer to the position, there was a German on a rooftop, acting as a spotter for the gun placements. The player will need to be able to recognize hints like these to succeed.

The characters in the series are set to become more developed, each with their own personal history, characteristics and habits.
Cut scenes have become more detailed and realistic.
There is a slight possibility that if this game shows the 101st in Holland in the 8th of October the player could see Colonel “Jumpy” Johnson of the 501st death as well as Lieutenant Colonel Robert G. Cole.
An interesting note about the multi-player in the new BIA is that the player will have the option of fighting on a campaign map, with a friend. The player and a friend will fight over territories and then gain positional advantages to take hold of Europe.

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