Chinese Police Like Counter-Strike
The Chinese government may not want kids playing it for hours, but Counter-Strike is good enough for police to play - as anti-terrorism training games. Over 300 members of the Tianjin police force took over an internet cafe on Wednesday for a three-day competition (including a team of judges to ensure no one was ‘cheating’), and took to heart the mantra of “Enhancing police forces through technology”:
After the competition was announced in March, Zhang [Bin, one of the competition organizers] said, police officers were enthusiastic. Now almost half the total Tianjin force are regular players.”Of course, they play, or should I say train, after work,” he added.
Officers reported noticeable improvement in self-protection on field missions after the play, Han said, stressing the game was only “a supplement to their traditional means of training.”
Now all they need is an outpost in Second Life to recruit officers, and they’ll be in business.
If counter-strike improves the ability of police officers to do their job then there is a huge number of 14 year old boys who spend 6 or more hours a day playing the eight year old first person shooter that will be prime recuriting targets for the American poilce force and military.
Why don’t they get one that? Ignorance. Valve already puts ads for movies into online play, why not ads for the military as well?
Source: Kotaku
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