I very highly doubt that the pentagon sponsors these games. The HUMVEE M998,(Very similar in appearance to the M1114, but you can tell from the doors) if I remember correctly, was decommissioned not too long ago, so I doubt this is depicting any current conflict. A vast amount of games are based around fictional and real conflicts, many including the HUMVEE M998 and M1114. I am very sorry that your friends are in danger, and I can understand you not being interested in this game as a result. Just please don't give it a thumbs down because of it.

It's an OK game but the controls are weird just like Jack said.

#3: Typical solipsistic jingoism. What's much more outrageous than "your" 3000 military dead (volunteers) are the hundreds of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians who have died because of the ILLEGAL invasion of their country. I furiously await consequences for that bald war crime, but I expect nothing.

Carry on.

Thanks for offering two games this weekend, but I passing on this one because it is not for me. Also, my husband told me this game must have been made years ago because the graphic, the controls suck and the play was not fun at all. Thanks ... here's to hoping that the 'better' games are offered next weekend.

For anyone having trouble beating this game I found a cheat code that gets you 30 extra lives.
Up,Up,Down,Down,Left,Right,Left,Right,B,A,Start.
;)

I was joking about this particular game coming out of the Pentagon. America's Army, on the other hand, is a recruiting tool of the US Army as you can see from its homepage. The military is pretty upfront about using computer games to recruit people. Too bad soldiers get blown up IRL.

Okay, I get it. I downloaded it this morning, tried it and had no idea. Came back later to read messages, that helped.
So it's up-down-left-right ralative the screen. Frankly, whether your vehicle is going in forward or reverse doesn't matter - just think of it as a rectangle moving on the screen. Use the mouse for turret control. And though this is gruesome, killing enemy soldiers by running into them or over them is as effective as shooting them. The big challlenge is going through the diagonal opening in the fences surround some of the checkpoints, since the vehicle only goes in four directionsm no angles. (Unless it does if you press two keys at once - I should try that.) Most importantly, the turret is mouse controlled - move the targeting cursor with the mouse and left click to fire. Which can make targeting and driving at the same time difficult. The green soldiers are grunts, the out of scale giants are robots and the brown uniformed officers may have bazookas or rocket launchers that can destroy you, so get them first. You can drive through vegetation (I don't think real Humvees can drive through trees) but not rocks.
Politically, it's true that violent war games can desensitive players while enhancing reflexes, so if you want your kids to be pacifists, well, why would you consider this game in the first place? And if you're raising brave little soldiers or cannon fodder, start the training here.

#3...
Yes; we at the pentagon are in the business of producing and releasing these types of games. These are very effective propaganda tools that have been shown to provide our growing young people with the ability to accept mindless, bloody battles. These types of "games" are encrypted with hidden messages that, when viewed 50+ times, the brain begins to accept messages broadcast by your government via national air waves. In fact; the phrase "Semper Fidelis" is code for "kill the children."
I am impressed with the ability you have to see through our disguised "video game" for what it truly is, and we cannot allow this knowledge to get out into the general public. We must target you for a memory erase.
But, since I like you, here is the trick. The only way to protect yourself is to watch re-runs of Maude and put on a tinfoil hat 24/7.

Now...please stay where you are and someone will be along to erase your memory, very soon.

TERRIBLE!!!!!!!!

The controls are relative to the screen rather than being relative to the vehicle... this is very confusing

not bad for 9 bucks, except for the directional controls problem.

It makes it almost impossible to maneuver.

Thumbs down because of the controls...

I have to laugh at the "War Game" whiners and their meager means at comparing this game to actual war. I know women and young teens (Female) that are into war type games so pleeeeese don't be trying to speak for the female gender as a whole. There's always a war going on some where at any given time with killing of the innocent a by-product of such actions. I let my nine yr old play war games so that if he's ever involved in a war as he grows older he'll understand to keep his head down, stay alert and have fast reflexes. He sure isn't going to get that by matching three items or playing with some cute bubble. I thank GGAOTD for this or any other war games they may post. WTG sponsers and GGAOTD.

The game is no good.

The controls actually become functional once you find out that "steer left" actually means "move towards the left", and "move backwards" doesn't mean to move towards the rear, but downwards on the map. IE, the controls are absolute instead of relative to the vehicle's bearing. The controls don't become good once you realize this, but functional.

There is zero challenge beyond understanding the poor control scheme. I played through the thing out of pure curiosity for whether there would be any challenge towards the end, but no. It's just the same braindead enemies with puny weapons. Not a boss, no big victory, just a plain high score list.

Did I mention that the enemies are braindead? They will get stuck on ANYTHING on the maps (which incidentally are 2, being reused through the whole game), making searching out the last one on each arbitrary "checkpoint" tedious. This is the only time anything but the minigun ever gets necessary, as the rockets will seek out the hidden guys who are stuck.


Looking for a good drive-around-and-shoot-stuff game? Try Zunderfury, it's free (beyond showing a couple of ads in your browser), challenging and fun.

I think every one should just keep on complaining and then we'll see where it gets us next weekend. Not...!

Big deal. I'm OK with this, but the game does suck.

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@ #3:

1. This is a game site.

2. There’s a war on and women, men and children are dying.
Comment by Jacal — May 18th, 2008 at 10:28 am

Sorry bout post #39 the humvee does steer ok you just have to make sure its pointing in the direction of UPWARD when you start, hand eye coordination does all the rest. ok checkpoint 1 completed with a wack of blood still not really one of the greats good for a few moments inbetween

O...oOk a girl's point of view.. It downloads and sets up ok but the damn vehicle wont steer, it goes every way you dont want it to go. So you tend to get a lil frustrated and bite your partners head off instead of listening to their advice on uninstalling the game. Sorry folks its a 20 minute download and 20 minutes of frustration before its uninstalled. THUMBS DOWN

I was just about to post Crimson Road free at GameTop, Stephen did it a step ahead of me.
Crimson Road is almost identical to this one. but the steering response in crimson-road is different. It is more conventionally based on the vehicle - depending on the vehicle direction it is facing. up=forward, down=back, left/right=turn(left/right).
In HUMVEE Attack the keys to direct the vehicle move is based on player screen, up=North down=South left=West right=East. It is not based on the vehicle and direction of vehicle is irrelevant. The software decide the turns the vehicle making to the new direction.
Personally I feel the steering is easier in HUMVEE Attack.

There seems to be some very slight differences between Humvee Attack and Crimson road, though the games are undoubtedly the same game, but possibly different versions as the vehicle skin is a jungle one in Humvee Attack and a Desert one in Crimson Road. Also there seems to be some differences to the skins on the bots.

For those whose only gripe is the controls, Try Crimson Road as you may find that the issue is resolved. I personally have no problems with the controls on either of these games, though I do keep pressing reverse instead of forwards when I'm trying to turn, which makes me turn wrongly. Maybe this is what a lot of people are having problems with.

The only other problem I've come across with this game is the objects such as crates and parts of destroyed buildings. when one of the soldier bots walks into any of these objects they move along the ground as though they are floating. This happens in both versions of the game. There must be something in the script that could make the objects more sticky with respect to the ground, but I'm not into changing game script.

I'm surprised at the response to this game as all those games that are similar to this got massive thumbs up - all were 90% plus that is: Alien Shooter (all three of them), Return of Theseus and the RIP Series (all three of them)

I tried out the "Crimson Road" as suggested above and found that it has the correct steering controls and a feature I felt was missing from Humvee attack: a mini map with checkpoints displayed.

There seems to be some very slight differences between Humvee Attack and Crimson road, though the games are undoubtably the same game, but possibly different versions as the vehicle skin is a jungle one in Humvee Attack and a Desert one in Crinson Road. Also there seems to be some differences to the skins on the bots.

For those whose only gripe is the controls, Try Crimson Road as you may find that the issue is resolved. I personally have no problems with the controls on either of these games, though I do keep pressing reverse instead of forwards when I'm trying to turn, which makes me turn wrongly. Maybe this is what a lot of people are having problems with.

The only other problem I've come across with this game is the objects such as crates and parts of destroyed buildings. when one of the soldier bots walks into any of these objects they move along the ground as though they are floating. This happens in both versions of the game. There must be something in the script that could make the objects more sticky with respect to the ground, but I'm not into changing game script.

I'm surprised at the response to this game as all those games that are similar to this got massive thumbs up - all were 90% plus that is: Alien Shooter (all three of them), Return of Theseus and the RIP Series (all three of them. Still I suppose the control problem has a lot to do with it.

I figured out the controls. Up, Down, Left, Right are relative to the screen, not the Hummvee. I tried to play this way for a couple of levels, but finally gave up. The good news is the Esc key works and it is easy to quit the game.

If the controls worked like everyone expected, I'd probably keep the game around to KILL a few minutes every now and then.

Ahhh.. quit yer whinin' post #3..
I need this game, I am tired of playin' kiddy games

I've been trying to figure out where I'd seen today's giveaway before. I recognised it when I saw the stationary objucts such as packing cases and small buildings being moved around by the bots in game. Well, I just remembered. It's actually a very recent addition to the Gametop site. So if you miss today's game you can always download it any time from the following address:

http://www.gametop.com/download-free-games/crimson-road/

same as #5, installed fast and clean, no problem
however when i went to start mission 1 the screen was white
couldn't see anything whatsoever

Ok, in a nutshell:

Downloaded fine.
Installed fine.
Keys are definable, and mouse works for shooting.
Problem:

Steering does NOT work. No matter what you do, the vehicle will not drive in the direction you wish to go. With every movement, the steering direction seems to change. Even trying to pay attention to the relative position of the vehicle does not help. This would be a nice, mindless shoot-em-up otherwise.

Conclusion:
I will have to give this a thumbs down for now due to the lack of control. I found it to be very annoying.

My sys:
WinXP Pro SP2

Stupid game willl not work for some reason I even tried Both Colormodes

This game does not work for me .

I'd much prefer classic arcade downloads to this. Ugh.

this game is very boring.I was very disappointed when they stopped doing the gotd, but was semi excited when they said we would have to great games on the weekends, but alas they pretty much still suck. I thought they were going to give "NEW" games for us to try. Maybe they were advertising to the cavemen from giecko.Also to sappho if you think this game is violent then maybe you should crawl back under the covers.

@ #3:

1. This is a game site.

2. There’s a war on and women, men and children are dying.

Does the Pentagon sponsor these game? There’s a war on and our young people are dying. Somehow I don’t feel like playing war when my friends are in danger. I miss Age of Japan 2. I downloaded it from this site, then lost it when I got a new computer. Thanks for all the nonviolent games, though.

Comment by Sappho — May 18th, 2008 at 3:28 am


...young people today likely never heard of it, but at one time there was a war (called World War II). So maybe we whould not allow Age of Japan to be played either?

Not so bad. Good to relax between a form and a sub. Not that great too. Worth downloading, but it gets boring after a while.

The controls are a bit tricky, but they work, you just have to get used to them.

Installed and activated fine on XP sp2.

Nightmare controls reminiscent of some of the lower quality racing games we have seen in the past. That ruined it for me.

!!!!!Also had a frightening issues trying to un-install!!!!!!

Had to resort to cleanse Un-installer due to not having it's own. I manually found it in the Cleanse program, then CI hung up briefly but came back to life after about 30 seconds. It gave me the un-install button and list of files to be deleted, but when I looked at the registry files to be deleted also it listed over 15,000 entries!!!!

WTH!!!!

Thank you, commenter #3. I am sure that GOTD would not post a pornographic game on their site. Why then offer something like this, that is truly obscene?

Tse steering of the Hummer is terrible. it drives like one of those cheap kids remote control cars!

I spent 10 minutes in the same clearing trying to hit a check point but kept going in the wrong direction!

The game looks OK, and the shooting is OK, but game play is useless!

I would have been really annoyed if I had paid for it!!!

Sappho, this is a game site, if you want to bore people with your politics, go do it on Yahoo message boards.

The game has poor graphics and doesn't play very well, I uninstalled it already.

CreamyPretzel you just made me lulz all over myself sir. I hope your happy.

This game needs Pixel shader, and it support bloom effects, quite a good game i think!!!

This game started up and all, but then i could only see the huds and the pointer, but no display....and there is no trouble shooting guide to help me..so this one is pretty much useless.

Does it run on Intel 945 videochips? Sysreqs mentions only GF and ATI...

When will developers realize many people (like myself) will ignore what may be a promising game that lacks mouse and/or controller for game direction. (Retoritcal question). This game fails me here. There are too many more options for games to play. Thumbs Down ! 8-(

Downloaded & Installed fine. The manuvering controls leave a LOT to be desired. It's nice to see the mouse sensitivity control in options, but still not sure what the mouse does. Using the up/down/side arrows moved the tank around ... couldn't figture how to move the turrent... did I even have a turrent? I saw two vehicles moving somewhat in the same directions... alternated the weapons, but never figured out which was shooting what and after two games was just as confused as when I started. Not a "keeper" for me.

John

p.s.
To Sir John Smigle, I agree, America's Army is a superb game, especially for free, though it's not going to be possible for many dial up users to download because its a few gigabytes in size. Also, if you don't like online play then you wont like it.

This is an arcade game whereas AA is a vast online first person shooter comprable to Battlefield 2 or the many other first person shooters that are availabe (The Rainbow series, Crysis, Far Cry etc etc. I actually gave up playing America's Army for Battlefield 2, though then it didn't support Cooperative paly so I'm thinking of returning. :)
Have a restful Sunday :lol:

It sucks, war war war, boring. What about "Janes hotel" "kittens" or some like that. It`s alright with those kind of game, if there was a new game every day,but not when it`s only in the weekends. children are going to be disapointed,everything on this site is like crap. before it used to be really good games they give away, but now its only really bad games, they give away in the weekend.remember thers a lot of girls out here,who likes to play,but not wargames.

Three minute review:


That's strange, this game tried to install itself to the Star Warrior folder (a previous Some Company giveaway). It's reminiscent of Alien Shooter and the RIP series, though the enemies are on a slightly larger scale.

Installation was a breeze with a combined activation and set up module. Controls are fully keyboard controlled with the ability to change key bindings from the options menu. Though you can use the mouse for shooting (left mouse button) and changing your weapons (mouse wheel). There is no problems with key bindings as far as I can see, though if your not paying attention you may think that reverse is forwards as the Humvee looks vaguely similar from the back, (though it isn’t, lol)

If you’re into killing you’ll like today’s offering. The game play isn’t very variable, but for a few minutes of mindless violence this game should sate your appetite. You start the game with three weapons a mini gun, flame thrower and missile launcher (accessible via the mouse wheel) as well as a mine thrower. You’ll find power ups scattered amongst the trees in the first level that initially contained health packs only, or information points (that looked like suitcases). I didn’t play beyond level one so I can’t say whether there are new weapons to collect, or whether the enemy get vehicles themselves.






Images

The following images aren’t exhaustive. It’s too nice a day (in the UK) to play arcade games so the following images were taken just to give you a quick impression of the game. When Googling Humvee Attack I didn’t get any hits which would lead me to believe the game has recently been released.

All on one page

http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/Whiterabbit_01/gaotd/Humvee%20Attack/


As a Slideshow

http://s109.photobucket.com/albums/n61/Whiterabbit_01/gaotd/Humvee%20Attack/?albumview=slideshow

Music:

The music (if you can call it that) does fit with the theme, but if you want real music you can do a swap for other MP3’s. There’s no conversion necessary, though you will need to rename the music to the two files you replace. (Main and Menu). You can find the music files within the Data/music folder of the Humvee Attacks games folder.



Conclusion

It’s not the most endearing or exciting of games but I’ll be keeping this one as there’s some fun to it. The controls are a little difficult at first, but once you get used to them they are okay.

I reckon this is worth a reasonable 6.5 out of 10.

Thank you ‘Some Company’ and the Game Giveaway team for something different for a change. (not that I’m knocking the repeats as I lost many of them last year and also there are many who hadn’t discovered the giveaway project last year).

Personally, I thik the game sucks, and was a waste of my time downloading it. I tried driving the Humvee, and it would not go where I wanted it to. The graphics are good, but a bit gory(for kids). I guess I am just spoiled after playing Americas Army, which has Humvee driving, its also free, and the best thing is its realistic...

When a company can't even provide a decent English translation for their description of the game, what am I to expect from the game itself in the way of quality?

I made the "Pong" remark last week. Thank you, GGOTD, for not proving me a liar.

Come to think of it, maybe Pong SHOULD be offered on here. At least it lived up to its description.

Lame game... Not worth downloading

easy but nice game, controls work fine here.

Not a bad little game for killing time and a few bad guys. Not the greatest graphics, but what can you expect for its size and it being free. My son should get some use out of it, though mommy may complain about the "Bloody" kills. Installed on XP Pro SP2 without a hitch. I had to locate the folder in "Drive C: Program files and place a shortcut on desktop. Thanks GGAOTD

I'm waiting for the game to start. And waiting, and waiting... And then I realize it already started! The health counter is going down, when I fire weapons their count goes down, but the playing area is just white. I've got sound and I can drive, it's just that there's no display of the playing field.

So, not so much fun.