Product Description: Operation Flashpoint, the tactical military combat simulation, is the most complex war game experience ever. Unprecedented freedom of action integrates squad command, piloting of any vehicle and strategic decision-making, to totally immersive effect.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - Former MOD maker for this world of fun.
I have played OFP since the day it was released in the states, we had 1.46, the original flashpoint, which still remains solid for gameplay to this day.
I am a former MOD maker, and made plenty of Modifications to the game, being this game fully allows you to customize it 100%. From the AI gameplay, to the placement of buildings, addition of vehicles, and creation of real maps. You have a surreal world in this fantastic game, which lead to Resistance, opening up new code, graphic capabilities, and gameplay.
This is a game for strategists, and was used for the military for training, for its tactical gameplay. Sure the graphics are WEAK, the system requirements are humongous(when this game came out), and the realism is so so. Its the beginning of a MMORPG wargame, but the MMORPG was based on 64 players(by god the lag!!), and the realism started outside of the game, with intuitive clans, superb teamwork, training with each other on tactics, flight plans, designated teams, ranks, qualifications, and leadership.
That is what made a small, unknown game, such a well known developmental tool for finding friendship before this true MMORPG, ME vs. YOU became a reality. Appreciate what true games that were created for you to be the master of, you control your actions, you control your direction. YOU CONTROL THE MISSION!!!
HUAH!!!
Rating: - A different 1st person shooter
This 1st person shooter makes a new era in this kind of games. Maybe not so graphically espectacular as Medal of Honor or similars, but with realistic ballistics and weapons.
A single shot at 1000m can kill you and the weight of ammo and weapons is limited, so you can not behave as a Bradley tank as you do in MOHAA, for example.
The enviroment is very big, with a tactical use of maps and obstacles, and there is not so much pleople as in other shooters.
You can manage a wide range of infantry weapons, including RPG or LAW grenade launchers, guided AA and AT missiles, machine guns, and a wide range of vehicles, including M-60, M1A1, T-55, T72 tanks BMP or Bradley ATVs (nice realistics, but it is NOT a tank simulator), or helicopters (poorly realistic).
As a complement ther are some cars and even a bus, useful for ambientation.
This is not an arcade, is nearer a tactical trainer for an officer academy...
It comes with 3 campaigns, the original one for Western forces, Resistance (Nice Anti-soviet Propaganda exercise) and Red Hammer (A really shame if you are not an US citizen).
If you want to use this game as a soviet-eastern-block soldier, better make your own missions with the editor.
The editor has 2modes, one simple an manageable and the otherreally comprehensive but difficult to manage.
Rating: - The game of many years
Operation Flashpoint G.O.T.Y. has got something for everyone that enjoys war games. There are single missions,campaign missions (where you start with no rank and work your way up throughout the game, to a commanding officer),multi player (online or network), and my favorite is the mission editor (you design your own game using any map offered in the game and almost if not every item in the game using computer commands to make the game play the way you want it to, even with multiplayers online! you can save your own game that you've made to single missions or multiplayer missions, and you can merge two games together to create one game! the graphics are good but not outstanding, and read the computer requirements before you decide to buy it, if buying for p.c. OPERATION FLASHPOINT GAME OF THEYEAR ED.
Rating: - Only serious gamers need apply...
Operation Flashpoint is one of those games in which the gameplay is so detailed and so rich that it cannot be fully appreciated until you've played for a considerable period of time. Unlike many Doom-style FPS games, in which fast reflexes are all that are necessary for sucess, OFP requires more stealth, tactical savvy, and just generally a higher level of gaming ability.
OFP is set on some fictional islands either in the Atlantic or Pacific around the year 1985. The Cold War is still very much a part of the geopolitical situation, and a rogue Soviet general is apparently making an (officially) unauthorized attack on the neutral island of Everon.
The good:
The graphics are very good. Keeping in mind this is a 5-year-old game, the graphics are very detailed, particularly faces and vehicle models. Also, if an enemy soldier is far away and partially behind cover, you won't detect him easily, unlike many other games.
Your particular character's soldiering ability is more realistic. Instead of being able to easily drill standing offhand 10-ring hits on targets 500 meters distant, and being able to run full speed while simultaneously keeping up an accurate stream of fire, as in Delta Force, your infantry soldier's marksmanship is basically "adequate", not great but not bad, either. Just as in real life, better, more accurate shooting is done from the prone position, and while you're moving, you cannot (accurately) shoot at all.
I found this realism very refreshing, where you actually have to set up and line up to kill enemies instead of the "I-see-you-first-BANG-you're-dead" mode of play on other games. Also, just like in real life, it only takes one or two hits to kill you, and when you're wounded, your movement and aiming abilities are appropriately affected. Also, weapons handling is more realistic. When you have to reload your magazine, you're basically vulnerable and it does take a few seconds, which ensures that you should only do it while behind cover. If you're out in the open enemy soldiers will pick you off just as easily as you could do to them. No more Imperial Stormtrooper marksmanship, where they could be ten feet away and miss you with 9 out of ten shots.
Now - the Bad:
While it was fun to be part of an attacking squad advancing in a line, it appears that the game developers never studied typical fire-and-movement tactics. Instead of one half the squad in overwatch while the other half advanced (and then switching roles), they all advanced together like some bayonet charge of old. Also, your fellow soldiers (and enemies also) make little use of cover and concealment, and frequently, in missions where you're part of an infantry attack force, you'll routinely see your mates get slaughtered while out in the open, like they were all untrained rookies.
The tank training mission was particularly maddening because you use the same mouse button for both movement and shooting, and it took me a while to get used to the tank command controls. NOT an intuitive setup at all.
Also, I noticed that when I had to replay missions (which happened a lot because it's very easy to get killed) the enemies would be in the same spots, which, instead of forcing you to change your approach or simply be more careful about staying under cover, caused you to just spray down the area where you saw the enemy last time you were killed, and eventually progress through the mission. This cuts down a little on the replayability of the game.
All in all, though - this is an immensely enjoyable game with a good storyline and some of the best realism in a military FPS that I've seen to date. I highly recommend it.
Rating: - Not what I expected
I was looking for a good, realistic military shooter, since I had been very dissapointed with the Call of Duty series. I thought those were childish games, totally unrealistic commando crap. So I was looking forward to this one with very high expectations.
I was totally dissapointed.
I don't usually complain about graphics, but it had the graphics of the original Rainbow Six. And worse.
The enemy AI, said to be the best AI in computer gaming, does nothing but hit the ground when they spot you and try to fire at you.... sometimes. Most of the times they just run towards me without firing. What the heck? Are they trying to stab me or something?
The only weapons availiable in this game are grenades, AK-47's and M-16's. Mmmm.
Maybe I'm missing something- you can only save once during a mission? I found that after hitting the "Save" button for the first time, it would vanish from the menu. What the heck?
Missions consist of advancing with your troops, finding a pair of ruskies every 2-3 minutes, shooting them, and repeat. I thought COD was childlish, but after playing this I really miss the large scale, trench battles. This is NOT fun.
- Former MOD maker for this world of fun.
- A different 1st person shooter
- Not what I expected
