Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will deliver the most accessible, engaging and visceral sandbox shooter of the year, with a huge variety of equipment, weapons and tactics available
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will give players the freedom to handle military crisis situations on their initiative
As an epic single and multi-player campaign weaves the narrative, players will fight as infantry soldiers in battle, drive tanks in armoured assaults, and infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives and rifles to machine guns and grenade launchers
The 220km2 battlefield gives players a multitude of tactical decisions on how to best accomplish missions
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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: Dragon Rising 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.
Hard but good experience If you enjoy tactical and realistic gaming, this game is for you. It has decent graphics, and a very good story mode. At first it may seem ridiculously hard, but if you take it in a realistic viewpoint, the game is very fun and challenging.
Good game While this game focuses on realism (which I personally like), I found that there were a few mission objectives that had tight time limits for no reason and this spoiled the strategy as you had to run at the enemy like a normal FPS without having the time to sneak up and "do things right".
I came across a few bugs that required me to replay the mission, but generally things go pretty smooth. Certainly nothing like Armed Assault, which is has many horrible bugs.
Sometimes your AI squad mates act as dumb and bricks, but generally they behave and can assist in most situations.
I found that there were to few campaign missions, 11 all up, and while some of these missions are pretty long, I was able to complete them all in around 5 hours of mission time. I did have to replay some missions so it probably ended up taking around 10 hours of actual time due to the replay.
I have attempted to play online, although there are only around 4 games going (when I checked) and when ever I tried to connect I just errors, so I can't comment on the online play.
Overall this is a good game with a good basis in realistic combat, those looking for twitchy fast paced FPS action should look elsewhere.
gtfan72(2) on 02, Nov. 2009 18:22 (HKT)
Operation Flashpoint:Dragon Rising This game might not appeal to those who like the run and gun type aka Rambo style in COD4. This is more of a strategist game where a kill needs planning and team work.
Co-op works great with this game and I enjoyed it a lot. Realism is great.
Now the bad part of this game, each time you are dead (together with all the human players), you have to restart your mission all over again. The game won't restart from the last checkpoint which i seriously think it's a flaw. Imagine playing almost an hour into the mission and your team is dead and you have to restart the mission, that's bad.
Overall, get this game if you want a real war sim and something different from the rambo style.
tahanu(1) on 02, Nov. 2009 10:25 (HKT)
disappointed i didn't like it, i wasn't waiting for that, the graphism is really good but the game on itself, it's not interesting.
some people might be like it.