Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
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Info
- Release Date: 9th Oct 2009
- Rated PEGI 18+
- Category: Shooter
- Publisher: Codemasters
Description
Taking gamers as close to war as they’ll ever want to get, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is the much anticipated return of the genre-defining military conflict simulator. Set to deliver the total combat experience, Operation Flashpoint 2 will challenge players to survive the chaos and rapidly evolving situations of modern warfare in a new contemporary theatre.
Players will experience the intensity, diversity and claustrophobia of a modern conflict from the unique perspectives of an infantry marine, a helicopter pilot, a Special Forces officer or a tank commander, each engaged against the full force of the Chinese PLA on a scale never previously experienced in a military action title. Gameplay simulates an immense conflict between advanced forces and provides unparalleled scope with different military disciplines, vehicles and equipment for players to utilize.
KEY FEATURES:
- Freedom of Play – Operation Flashpoint 2 will give players the freedom to handle military crisis situations on their initiative. Unscripted missions will task players with real objectives, such as laying down covering fire, covering a friendly unit’s retreat or conducting short-range recon patrol. Armed with cutting edge military hardware, players will need to balance brute force with intelligent use of tactics. Once players have completed the campaign, a Mission Editor enables gamers to create their own single player and multiplayer missions.
- The most realistic modern military conflict game – Operation Flashpoint 2 features unparalleled levels of realism and variety of military forces, equipment, weapons and tactics. Fully loaded weapons and individual ammunition types will be simulated with detailed ballistic physics, based upon individually-crafted mechanics. Players will command and control a wide variety of multi-component, multi-weapon vehicles, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, APCs, attack and utility helicopters. The character damage system authentically depicts the terrible wounds and injury from modern weapons to communicate the reality of combat.
- Platoon-Based Combat - As an epic campaign weaves the narrative, players will fight as infantry soldiers in battle, drive tanks in armored assaults, pilot helicopters in air strikes, and infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives and rifles to machine guns, grenade launchers and laser designators for air strikes. In whichever role the player chooses, they will experience the fierce and brutal reality of warfare and the shock and awe of contemporary firepower unleashed on the arresting scale of modern combat.
- Redefines the Size of Battle - Immense play areas of more than 135 square miles give players a multitude of tactical decisions on how to best accomplish missions. Densely packed with environment detail and objects, valleys, mountains, coastlines, towns, villages and industrial complexes all combine to deliver a rich and challenging tactical environment. The world is persistent, so that buildings destroyed in one campaign mission will be destroyed in the next.
- Stylized Cinematography - Operation Flashpoint 2 will model the environment, objects and people in realistic detail, but its visual styling will embrace documentary techniques. The camera work through cut-scenes will be heavily influenced by television war reports that are often shot under extreme circumstances delivering a unique look with incorrect exposure, severe camera shake and loss of focus.




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As close to war as you ever want to get
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising puts you in the boots of one of several different frontline soldiers fighting a fictional war set in the near future. When you first fire the game up, a stylish series of images accompanied by some funky text set the scene and explain what has happened to cause this war, from back in 1400, through to the games setting of 2011.
A Briefing at the start of each mission provides objectives, a local area map and intelligence reports such as what level of enemy have been seen in the area ranging from light infantry through to helicopter gunships and tanks. After a short load you are on the battlefield. You will notice straight away the limited HUD, you are not given a map and all the usual goodies, just a good old fashioned compass. This limited HUD sets the tone for the rest of the game, and that is realism. Unlike other shooters were the enemy can take a whole clip of bullets before falling, in Operation Flashpoint, one shot is enough to fell an enemy, and the same can be said about you. Pop your head up at the wrong time and its back to the previous checkout, this really makes you plan each move and be more strategic as the thought of dying any second is always hanging above you.
There is also a great sense of achievement when you do kill an enemy, this has been lost in other recent games. Another aspect of the reoccurring realism is the healing system, if you take a bullet in the leg, you will have a limited period to use your medical pack to patch up the wound, before you bleed to death. Depending on where you are hit, your abilities will be affected e.g if shot in the leg, you will not be able to sprint and if shot in the arm, your aiming accuracy will decrease.
Visuals
The visuals in Operation Flashpoint are not quite up to the standard set by modern shooters such as Call of Duty and Medal of Honour. There are some low res textures which let the game down, such as the grass and trees. The character models are of better quality with lifelike movement and looks. The lighting may not be outstanding, but it is satisfactory, with some nice explosions and gunfire.
Sound
While the graphics can be faulted, the sound can not. From the tension filled music in the game menus, through to the bullets whizzing past your head in the heat of the battle, this is top notch stuff. Birds chirp in the jungle, explosions rumble in the distance and you can hear each individual bullet casing bounce on the floor as it is ejected from your gun.
Summary
While not recommended for the casual gamer, anybody looking for a difficult and authentic shooter that is truly rewarding should definitely pick up Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising.