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Police to be trained on videogames
Author: Joe MartinPublished: 20th May 2008
Armed police will soon be training via the wonderful technology of light gun games.
The simulation, titled Shoot/NoShoot is played using a light gun and recreates a few realistic conflict situations, including a man looking in a car boot. Players approach the man and must decide whether to shoot, fire a warning shot or to hold their fire based on how much of a threat they think he is.
One of the designers of the game, PhD student Paul Robertson, thinks that the game won't actually be very appealing to game fans as the situation is far more realistic than other supposedly realistic games.
"A lot of games become very 'arcadey', it's all big and when you shoot at people it takes eight shots to take them down, and everything explodes," he said to the BBC. "This is more realistic, a single shot will take someone down."
The game supposedly uses realism throughout the entire game and has complex AI and the ability to respond to voice commands.
"The animation is very important, that we get as realistic as possible movements associated with the individual turning round because that's where the signals are going to be as to whether to shoot or not," said lecturer Dr. James Brown.
It's not clear when the technology will be rolled out as the system first has to be tested by the Home Office Scientific Development Branch. Still, sounds cool doesn't it? Let us know your thoughts in the forums.
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Lol Tris.
Policeman: Don't move, we have a clear headshot on you and I will pwn a noob instantly
Criminal: Oh yeah? I'll just start moving side to side
Policeman: I will be forced to kill you with an RPG or a frag grenade
Criminal: **** I'm gonna get pwned
hehehe....i'm trying to think of something equally/more witty but this is just plain funny!
Lol!
Yeah there are a number of games out there like that, Red Ochestra is another one.
Is there an anticheat ? (then you get permabanned VAC style)
Police: "Ok suspect, this is a king of the hill game with no respawn..game on.":D
I'd like to see a copper try a rocket jump IRL ;)
I think this is a good idea but the peripherals they should use would need to be completely realistic i.e include magazines and cocking mechanisms, i dont know whether the bitech filter will let me say "cocking" so a bolt action mechanism will have to do.
*criminal falls and dies*
BOOOOM HEADSHOT! HAHA I PWN J00 N00B!
We all know that video games are DIRECTLY linked to obscene violence, rape, murder, and liberal fundamentals in the world, so why would we want a group of people carrying GUNS to play these murder simulators?! Doesn't anybody see the innate danger in this? Think of the children!
Joe Martin to be trained in writing accurate headlines
Going on both the bit-tech and the bbc article, the police don't appear to have made any commitment whatsoever. The game was designed for coppers, but that appears to be it.
doesnt fill me with confidence .... pretty rare to die from a single shot instantly, countless cases where multiple shots required to incapasitate
It is quite a rarity though. Regardless of whether a shot is a killshot, or even takes out a limb - getting shot is excruciatingly painful. Unless you've had some form of combat experience or even proper training, pushing through that pain is incredibly hard.
Anyway - gaming could at least make police actions a lot more exciting in the media...
"The metropolitan police are the subject of a new inquest today, into the allegations of spawn-camping around a known criminal hideout"
Ah where's the fun in that?