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America's Army bill: $32.8 Million
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Posted by Donster on: 2009-12-09 17:07:14 329
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Government tallies total budget for free-to-play first-person shooter and military recruitment tool's first decade of development.
By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpot
The America's Army series of free-to-play PC first-person shooters that double as recruitment tools has cost the US government $32.8 million over 10 years, according to data obtained through a GameSpot Freedom of Information Act request.
The US Army first revealed America's Army in 2002, although expenditures on the project began in 2000. At the time, it was touted as a five-year project with a budget of $7 million.
The PC game received a number of updates and expansion packs before a true sequel, America's Army 3, was launched earlier this year. It has also spawned a pair of Ubisoft-published console spin-offs, "America's Army: Rise of a Soldier" for the PlayStation 2 and original Xbox, and last year's Xbox 360 game "America's Army: True Soldiers".
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