Gator Six – Battery Command Virtual Experience

By WILL Interactive, Inc.

 

 

2006 Best Serious Game Award

 

Skills and Ideas Taught:  Leadership.

Goal or Challenge:  Players make pivotal command decisions during predeployment, deployment, combat and support and  sustainment operations that test their adaptability, judgment and critical decision-making skills.

Primary Audience:  US Army soldiers

Assessment Approach:  Players are provided positive and negative feedback based on their decisions in the game.

Description:  Gator Six is a Virtual Experience Immersive Learning Simulation (VEILS®) where you become the lead character in an interactive movie. As an Army Field Artillery Captain with 7 years service, you have been selected to command an M-109 Paladin battery. Your brigade receives orders. You and your charges are excited – raring to go, actually – but how will you handle your family, troop morale, host nation cultural disparity and many other differing issues? All this while also making sound battlefield assessments? You make pivotal command decisions during predeployment, deployment, combat and support and sustainment operations that test your adaptability, judgment and critical decision-making skills.

Game Engine:  Unknown

Operating System:  Windows

Platform:  Personal computer

Special Hardware:  None