A game similar to America’s Army (both free)

JCOVE Lite is a freeware game derived from Bohemia Interactive’s VBS2 software – itself a derivative of Armed Assault but focused on simulated training for military purposes.

JCOVE Lite was funded by the UK MOD to give the general public, particularly potential recruits, an idea of how the British military trained for combat as well as providing a more realistic combat simulation than your standard shoot’em-up.

Overall it gives serious gamers an immensely modifiable platform to create, share and play their own missions using a huge range of British military equipment – from the humble Sig 229 to the legendary Challenger 2 Main Battle Tank.