![]() ![]() ![]() The game is pleasantly difficult to categorize into a genre. Despite one's historical orientation, Operation Flashpoint Gold Edition allows players to engage in plenty of military style action from a variety of perspectives. Just yesterday the USSR was an "evil empire" and yet the shift to fighting terrorism makes the cold war days seem almost nostalgic. The era when renegade Soviet leadership might attempt to seize control of territories through military action seems both near and distant. "War is not nice." -Barbara Bush, as quoted in Operation Flashpoint Gold Edition Saying that, with a full-blown expansion pack due in the summer and the very promising Operation Vietnam mod in development, there’s plenty of life left in the game. It’s a tricky set of missions for sure, even for battle-hardened veterans like us. The Red Hammer campaign incidentally adds no new weapons or vehicles, rather it offers players the chance to fight a prolonged campaign for the other side. So for the cash you get the original game, the upgrades, a mini strategy guide and the Red Hammer disc, which for those that may have missed the game first time around, represents rather good value for money. The first three upgrades are combined as part of the Red Hammer campaign, the fourth you’ll find on this month’s discs. ![]() Since the original game was released four massive upgrades have been unleashed, between them not only fixing a number of bugs, but adding new vehicles, weapons, single and multiplayer missions as well as multiplayer modes. Even more remarkable however, is how dedicated developer Bohemia Interactive is when it comes to supporting the game. It isn’t quite as user-friendly as Ghost Recon, but for all its graphical rough edges, stilted dialogue and overlong cutscenes, the fact that you can command tanks, jeeps, helicopters and fighters, not to mention get lost among some huge maps, proves just how impressive the game is. A couple of months shy of being a year old, Operation Flashpoint remains the best first-person war simulation available. ![]()
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