Anyone else got this gem of a game? If you played Dragon Rising and enjoyed that, you'll love this even more. If you played Dragon Rising and hated it, the game is different enough from it to give a new opinion. Yes, it's another modern military shooter, but it's a shooter done well. There's a better campaign story implemented and the entire multiplayer is based around Co-operative play. The characters now actually have some..well character to them and the script for the campaign is spot on with the banter (going by my experiences) The class customisation is a nice welcome too. It's not an all out pimp my gun fest like CoD, each class has it's own line of upgrades. There's also a certain mission in the campaign (Not going to ruin it) that you'll wonder "How the [censored] did we manage to complete that!?" Good game all in all, and was worth the money I payed for it.

I played OP Dragon Rising and loved it, I am going to pick this up soon

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8aRbR8xv8m4.

I really loved the first Operation Flashpoint, one of my favorite games when I was younger. Dragon Rising was disappointing. The multiplayer was broken and empty because; and they never fixed it. The first Operation Flashpoint allowed you to create battles, which was one of the biggest features in the game, and that was completely left out Dragon Rising - albeit the editor which wasn't so user friendly.

To be honest with you, this game is much much further from the original than Dragon Rising. Although that's what Arma's for right? Red River is a much more refined infantry experience and the game is marginally different from DR. You don't get to pilot any other vehicles other than Humvees etc, but that doesn't detract from the experience. For an up front infantry experience, the game is decent. It does have its flaws, but not as many as DR. The multiplayer also works with little problem. Although the game shines at its peak when your playing it with your mates.

I want this game soooo bad, I'm super jealous of you British folk for getting it first. Kind of ironic that a game about U.S. Marines gets released in Europe months before the U.S.

I was confused about the op, at first. Now it makes sense. Diddnt know they got it earlier with this one.

Coop ftw.

Yep, Codemasters is a U.K. company I believe so they got this game just a couple days ago...in the U.S. we must wait until June 7th which is start of summer break for me so I suppose thats perfect but damn I wish I could play it now. I loved DR but it had a lot of bugs and easily correctable flaws. It looks and sounds like Red River fixes a lot of these issues. At least when it comes out in the U.S. there will probably already be several patches so hopefully we get the closest to perfect they can give us.

Edit: and yes, Coop for the win, indeed! :thumbsup: also looking forward to this survival mode thing I heard about, gotta love a good survival mode.

I wanted to get Dragon Rising for the longest time, it was always $45 used at Gamestop and I was told it might not be worth the money. I finally found it for $10 at a flea market, a few months ago) and picked it up quick, a week later it went to $18 used at Gamestop. I really wanted to like it, I tried, but it wasnt really a tonna fun. Espescially looking forward to coop, not many people online playing it, or at least I can only see 4 or 5 people on at a time (360). I got cheats for the extra missions and they are really short. Yesterday was playing one, we start on one side of some buildings, some enemies start ont he other side, few kills later its mission accomplished, and thats on hardcoe diff. I was runnin n gunnin through hardcoe.

Whats this Survival mode?

I am personally disappointed in the quality of Codemaster games. I might pick it up if it gets good reviews, but otherwise I will stick to Arma. Didn't even know a new OFP was coming out honestly.

Played this game over at a friends house, it's great.
I didn't like dragon rising but i do like this one.
I am getting this game so i wander if there is a squad from people of this forum i can join?

PC Gamer UK gave it 45 / 100

kinda disappointing actually since the other Operation Flashpoint games are quite good

I loved the first one until I hit a wall of glitches.I had to sneak into a depot but none of the buildings or structures where actually there.The enemy could see and shot through them and I couldn't. If it was not for those glitches it would for probably been my favorite FPS.

IGN said its PC version is Good (7.5) I wonder about the 360 version

well PC Gamer UK are probably the only game reviewers that I trust these days so if they say it's not very good then I believe them.

I skimmed through the pcgamer.com article on it. Theres alota dislike for the AI.

LMAO @ this Games for Windows Live is a crappy program. The amount of registration needed to start playing a game is ridiculous.

I wouldnt say I trust IGN, but I can say my thoughts on games "Bad, okay, good, amazing" are on the same level with theirs. But yeah.. I really wanna see a Xbox 360 review, since its heavy coop, and XBL and all

Yawn. Yet another attempt to flog their dead horse, straying even further into Bad Company territory and far from everything that made the original OFP worth playing. I couldn't be less interested.

Only the first is. But http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bohemia_Interactive_Studio, who worked on that game, are working on ARMA nowdays.

double post.

OF:DR is just a poor mans far cry 2

Loved the realism of the first one, but I heard that they dumbed it down, is this true?

Sadly, yes. Since the first Operation Flashpoint, Cold War Crisis, was made by a completely seperate developer (Bohemia Interactive, a bunch of Czech-based gurus who also design virtual training simulators for various armed forces) there was little hope that Codemasters would be able to recreate such a complex game - and they didn't. Their "remake" has none of the free-roaming exploration, nor the emergent gameplay, nor the attention to realism, and this new sequel seems to be aimed squarely at the CoD/Bad Company/MoH crowd, rather than military simmers. All Codies have is a tarnished name and a slew of bugs they never even bothered to patch. If you're looking for a true sequel to the classic OFP, you're much better off with ARMA and ARMA2, its spiritual successors.

Well, that svcks. I guess Ill have to wait and hope the new R6 is good and realistic.

You might be hoping for a long time, as unfortunately the Rainbow Six franchise hasn't exactly been all that realistic since Raven Shield (which was 8 years ago.) The series has been action-oriented for a long time ago now, and there's been no indication that this trend would change - much to my disappointment.

Yeah, but its a lot more realistic and has a bigger learning curve than 99% of the shooters. The Vegas series may have been more actiony, but it still chewed up and spat out most twitch shooter fans that tried it.

Minus everything that makes Far Cry 2 my favorite free roam fps...but otherwise yes, they are similar