Surprisingly, many games made for Army training have a deeper reliance on and representation of interpersonal interaction than anything I've ever played before. military's strategy to use video games to solve military problems.
These games join older software tools such as "America's Army," the Army-developed first-person shooter designed to boost recruitment, as elements of the U.S. Virtual Iraq was designed as a PC-based form of exposure therapy for Army veterans who served in Iraq and came back with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). The ICT is a research lab for gaming technology that specializes in creating products for the United States military, including a city management trainer called UrbanSim and a negotiation trainer called BiLAT. I'm sitting in an office chair at the University of Southern California's Institute for Creative Technologies in Marina Del Rey, Calif. Then I take my helmet off and leave Virtual Iraq. He's grimacing in pain, and I can see shrapnel from the IED embedded in his arm and stomach. I can't seem to take my eyes off the young soldier next to me. Before I know it, the clatter of enemy gunfire replaces the ringing in my ears. Upon our arrival, enemy combatants detonated an improvised explosive device (IED) in an attempt to blow up our vehicle and us. Then an explosion deafens my right ear and a shockwave rocks my skull. We arrive at an Army checkpoint, where I pull up next to a similar Humvee. On my right are two soldiers in tan fatigues - one in the passenger's seat, staring listlessly ahead at the road, and one in the gunner's position.
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