Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Gold Edition
by Codemasters

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Product Summary

• Tactical fighting game designed for new recruits to the Flashpoint cause
• Contains the original game, plus additional vehicles, weapons and missions
• Also includes Red Hammer The Soviet Campaign with 20 new fighting missions
• 64-page professionally produced Operation Flashpoint Prima Strategy Guide
• Enhanced multiplayer functionality and many additional code updates

• PC Gamer (1-year)

Video Game Reviews of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Gold Edition

Customer Review: The Game that the Army actually uses to train Soldiers
Summary: 5 Stars

OF is simply - you are solider, here is what a war is like. Go play. The game is NOT like Medal of Honour or Doom. Even though it has first person/ third person modes and plays like a first person shooter it is more akin to MS Flight Sim in that everything is hyper realistic from the weapons, platoons, soldiers, divisions, operations manuals, commands and objectives. Most of the objects in the maps are destructible including the buildings and the forests! You can run down a field with 100 soldiers and take on a platoon of tank, air crafts and enemy soldiers and even get blown up in the process by a shell flying in your direction (shaking the earth and creating giant holes in the ground!). You can even get wounded and end up crawling along the ground needing a medic fast. Oh no! The medic is dead! Now what to do? You can issue fifty commands to your team. You can take on the role of any type of soldier (Engineer, Commander, Sniper, Machine Gunner, Pilot and much more) and you can do anything, like blow up a score of the enemy with some land mines you have planted while you hide in the bush watching it all happen (hehehe), snipe a whole platoon from behind a rock, climb into a tank and drive it around or into a jet or a helicopter or even the enemy bomber! This is the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City of army games. This game is so operationally realistic that it will blow your mind. To compare this game to Counter-Strike is a way off the mark. CS is just a small maps, with limited teams, and the objective is to frag your way into winning or plant the bomb or rescue the hostages. CS is a great multiplayer game and I play it a lot but it is certainly nothing like OF! And OF still has not been beat in terms of realism. The A.I in this game is amazing! In the map editor you can choose the A.I skill (six levels) of each individual enemy unit or soldier!

The big plus is the bonus map editor where you can create your own battles and objectives. There is nothing else like it and because of the `easy' map editor the lifespan of this game is infinitive. I have created missions in less than ten minutes that I can play all day long - and do!

The only downside to this game is that it has a massive learning curve and the graphics are not exactly ground breaking stuff, but they are still very good. You will have to play this game on and off for at least a week before you become familiar with everything and that is when the game really takes off. I mean you can literally run away from your platoon, steal a boat, go for a cruise, attack some non-mission critical platoon, steal their helicopter and come back later to see how your buddies are doing. Maybe they killed all the bad guys? Maybe they are all dead? Maybe some are dead and others are wounded and in need of treatment. Go get a medic! Revive your crew! Order them to board the helicopter you stole. Fly back to base. Get more gear. Fight on!

The bottom line is that once you have played all the missions learn the game editor. You can find the manual on-line and you will be up and running with it in a day. The editor is one of the easiest I have ever used and turns this game into a 6 star value for money experience like no other.

Operation Flashpoint is a landmark in game design. Do not underestimate it.

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