Realistic tactical gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“you will be hard pressed to find a more realistic shooter. The physics are realistic, weapons are not one-shot death-lasers”
Steam review · 201.2 h played ↗
America's Army 3
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 44%Mixed · 44%U.S. Army2009FPS · Action · Simulation
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 2 h ago
The verdict
A free, realistic team-based tactical shooter with strong teamwork and training, but servers are essentially dead and PunkBuster is broken. Skip it if you want to play online.
Great for
Nostalgic fans of tactical team shooters who can organize a group via Discord
Main risk
There are almost no active servers or players, so you can't play multiplayer
What players love
Teamwork and communication
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The entire games foundation was based on teamwork and communication and required you to think before you pulled your trigger.”
Steam review · 283.2 h played ↗
Detailed training and medic system
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“Even just doing the Airborne training, going to Ranger school, learning combat lifesaver was fun and memorable.”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗
Strong nostalgia and memorable matches
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews
“AA3 simply changed the way I felt towards videogames.”
Steam review · 182.9 h played ↗
Free to play
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews
“it does what it sets out to do and you won't get anything better for free”
Steam review · 184.2 h played ↗
Mature, friendly community
Mentioned in ~1 in 30 positive reviews
“probably the best thing about the game is the oddly mature community!”
Steam review · 201.2 h played ↗
What players complain about
No servers or players left
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“WARNING: there is no servers to play in, the only thing you can do is play the training.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗
Bugs, crashes and poor optimization
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“its so not optimized, my pc is a mid range gaming pc and its a lil old, but it can run games with this settings at 1080p easy, but not this one”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗
Worse than America's Army 2
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“Too bad they aimed for a COD-like game instead of keeping the original charm from 1.x 2.x.”
Steam review · 1.1 h played ↗
PunkBuster and login problems
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“Punkbuster is broken. Has been since the beginning of time.”
Steam review · 1.8 h played ↗
Dated graphics and clunky UI
Mentioned in ~1 in 9 negative reviews
“Graphics are hard to get past now. Textures are muddy and the draw distance is terrible.”
Steam review · 2 h played ↗
Steep learning curve, unfriendly to newcomers
Mentioned in ~1 in 19 negative reviews
“It's hard to start off quickly, and not easy to learn.”
Steam review · 2.1 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Unknown5 GB
Minimum
Processor3.0 GHz Single Core
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsDirect X 9.0c compliant, Shader 3.0 enabled video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better)
Storage5 GB of Available Hard Disk Space
Recommended
Processor2.4 GHz Dual Core
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirect X 9.0c compliant, Shader 3.0 enabled video card with 512MB RAM (NVIDIA 7950 or better/ATI X1950 or better)
Storage5 GB of Available Hard Disk Space
Processor3.0 GHz Single Core
Memory1 GB RAM
GraphicsDirect X 9.0c compliant, Shader 3.0 enabled video card with 256MB RAM (NVIDIA 6600 or better/ATI X1300 or better)
Storage5 GB of Available Hard Disk Space
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