US Spies Use Custom Video Games for Training

[wraggster]

Wired reports that the US Defense Intelligence Agency has just acquired three PC-based video games which they will use to train the next wave of analysts. The games are short, but they have branching story lines that change depending on how a trainee reacts to various problems. Quoting:
"'It is clear that our new workforce is very comfortable with this approach,' says Bruce Bennett, chief of the analysis-training branch at the DIA's Joint Military Intelligence Training Center. Wired.com had an opportunity to play all three games, Rapid Onset, Vital Passage and Sudden Thrust. The titles may conjure images of blitzkrieg, but the games themselves are actually a surprisingly clever and occasionally surreal blend of education, humor and intellectual challenge, aimed at teaching the player how to think."

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl...8/04/24/045257

[geise69]

Hmmm...so people DO play video games to kill people.

[ish420ism]

noooooo! It can't be. The shet Jack Thompson and lyndon LaRouche say is true?
No shet people. Where the flamers at?

[Zargon]

Aha! Proof that we Americans still do somethings right!

Edit: Sorta...

[ish420ism]

I need someone to tell me how to think. Bertrand Russel would be proud. Fuk the Empire.