First to Fight hopes to be one of the most realistic military simulations to have entered the market it to date. The game began as a partnership between the creators of the Close Combat series, Atomic games, and Destineer, who built the 3D engine.

Over 40 active-duty Marines, many just recently returned from the frontlines in Iraq, have worked with Destineer over the last two years demonstrating combat and movement tactics, providing military doctrine, and taking the developers through Marinetraining camps.

The combat and movement tactics the Marines use today are recreated in the game. These tactics are called Ready-Team-Fire-Assist, and they govern how a fire team moves and provides constant 360-degree security for the team when crossing intersections, taking down rooms, and traversing staircases.

Because Marines are part of an integrated force, giving the player access to the Marine Air Ground Task Force, or MAGTF, was important. First to Fight gives you the ability to call support from assets like the Cobra gunships, mortar strikes, armored assault vehicles, as well as other Marines.

Destineer wanted an authentic game that went beyond accurate uniforms and weapons models. They needed something that would make the game stand out in the market. After speaking with the Marines, they learned that the underlying core in all warfare was the human will to fight the enemy. The human will had to be modeled in First to Fight to make it truly authentic. Destineer has done this by using a psychology model to represent morale and discipline for every friendly and enemy character in the game.

Marine Corps Vehicles:

HUMVEE: The HUMVEE replaced the famous Jeep as the multi-purpose 4x4 combat vehicle in 1985. Highly versatile, the HUMVEE is the most advanced vehicle of its type in the world and is used by over 30 nations. With a top speed of 70 mph and over 15 inches of ground clearance, there are few places the HUMVEE can?t go to deploy the wide array of weapon system that can be mounted on its chassis; from .50 caliber heavy machine guns and 40mm automatic grenade launchers to the Avenger anti-aircraft missile system.

M1 Abrams: The most fearsome tank to ever roll into combat, the M1 Abrams is the king of the modern battlefield. With its sloped composite/uranium mesh armor, advanced targeting systems and a top speed of over 40 mph the Abrams is nearly unstoppable. Armed with a 120mm smoothbore main gun, the M1 is capable of quickly dispatching just about anything on the battlefield- be it enemy armor or renforced concrete bunkers.

LAV-25: The LAV-25 is an eight-wheeled armored combat vehicle that offers the Marine Corps the versatility to not only transport troops quickly in areas where the AMTRAC and M1 can?t go- but also give the Marine infantry deadly direct fire support.

AAV7A1 ?AMTRAC?: The AMTRAC is unique to the Marine Corps and traces its lineage back to the amphibious landing craft of World War II. Larger than most armored personnel vehicles with a prominent upturned bow, the AMTRAC is fully amphibious- able to be launched off-shore, power through 10 foot swells (due to its twin waterjet propulsion system) and drive inland off the beach. Armed with .50 caliber heavy machine guns and 40mm automatic grenade launchers, the AMTRAC can transport up to 21 Marines into combat and offer excellent close range direct fire support for Marine infantry.

AH-1W Cobra Gunship: Along with the Harrier jump jet, the Marine Corps Sea Cobra attack helicopters are able to deliver a variety of weapons against the enemy for accu