Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - Better than COD4?

[Lookingglassman]

I have been waiting for this game for over a year and it finally will be released on May 26 (I got mine reserved). From what I have seen of it, it looks better than Call of Duty 4.

Do you think this game will set the bar higher than COD4 for first person war shooters?

 

[Rii]

Isn't it purporting to be a realistic infantry combat simulator like its predecessor? If so, that's a totally different ballgame from Call of Duty, which aspires to be a realistic simulator of Hollywood war films.

 

[Lookingglassman]

Rii, I never played the first one, but I have read everything I could on this one and it sounds like it will be fun. Kind of like GTA, but with tanks and better graphics.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

OK, for anyone who's never played the Flashpoint games before: these games are hard. You try to approach an enemy head-on, you die. You let them see you, you die. Your only hope for survival is remaining undetected while you find a good spot from which to kill your enemies. They are not really "action" games in the sense of being fast-paced and intense. Much of the intensity is just in surviving. At least in the ones I played, you were always outmanned and often outgunned, and you had to live by your wits.

I've played games like MOH and COD and they're a whole different ballgame. Flashpoint is harder, by far. So, unless they've dumbed it down this time around, expect a very serious challenge.

I think the Flashpoint games are awesome--they are not like other war games. But they are not fast-paced, run-and-gun games. They require careful planning and patience.

 

[Rii]

^ The interesting thing about Operation Flashpoint is that as well as being an excellent title in its own right, earning GOTY awards from several publications at the time, it also formed the basis for the Virtual Battlespace System which is licensed by the US Marine Corps and several other military institutions. The developers have since gone on to create ArmA: Armed Assault and are working on a sequel to that title, with concomitant refinements to VBS. The OpFlash IP, however, remains with the publisher of the original game, Codemasters, which is where Dragon Rising comes from.

 

[Lookingglassman]

Robert Maxwell, It sounds like real battle! I am really excited about getting my copy to see if I still have any of my old Army skills left. I read we can operate vehicles in it and I plan on jumping on the first M1A1 Abrams I see, since I was a tanker for 12 years and putting my 12 years of experience to the test against the Chinese in this game. Hopefully they will put up a better fight than the Iraqis did in real life in Desert Storm.

 

[Kronos]

The original Operation Flashpoint was the greatest video game I've ever played, and it's not even close.

Armed Assault though was not a fun game, I played OFP for 6 years, AA for 3 weeks.

Looking forward to this, even if it is by a different game studio.