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Aussie/New Zealand Armies Get Steel Beasts
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Posted by Donster on: 2006-04-18 15:00:42 1382
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By Chris Abele @ The Wargamer
eSim Games announced the continuation of its Steel Beasts franchise with the deployment of its Wargamer Award for Excellence winner to the defense personnel of the Australian and New Zealand Armies. Steel Beasts Professional, which was released as a pricey consumer game in 2004, will serve a training and instruction role for a $3.5MM program.
"We're proud and very happy that AASW will be using Steel Beasts Professional as part of their training", said president and lead programmer Al Delaney. "Every ANZAC soldier will also be able to run a copy of our software on his personal computer anytime and anywhere he wants. This is a long-term commitment of the ANZAC forces to boost training quality even further by utilizing simulation tools while keeping the costs at a reasonable level."
"We will be happy to present the full spectrum of Steel Beasts' capability to a wider audience at London's ITEC exhibition, and discuss the development outlook with current and prospective customers," said Nils Hinrichsen, Director of Marketing & Customer Service. "At our booth, our partner AFV Sim will present its range of desktop gunnery trainer hardware equipment, and we will be giving an overview about the Crew Trainer Cabin, a joint development between eSim Games, the Danish Army Main Workshop, and Krauss-Maffei Wegmann."
Steel Beasts was first released in 1999, whereupon it won several major gaming awards for its simulation of modern tank warfare. The game is a sim of combined arms warfare, from the individual crew member of a M1A1 Abrams tank to a battalion commander. The game has already found a home in other military training roles, including with the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Denmark, Spain, and Canadian Air Force.
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