operation flashpoint

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (OFP) is a critically acclaimed tactical shooter and battlefield simulator released in 2001. The single-player campaign is set in an alternate history 1985, and puts the player in the role of an American soldier in a (non-nuclear) confrontation with Soviet forces, with historically accurate weapons, equipment and vehicles from that time. Over the span of a long in-game campaign, a player will find him or herself driving trucks and jeeps, crewing tanks, and even flying helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft into combat, but most missions are infantry combat from a grunt's eye view. Weapon damage is modeled fairly realistically, making combat an extremely dangerous affair for the player, requiring caution and the use of tactics for success. An add-on campaign Red Hammer, which was controversially designed by Codemasters (the company responsible for the distribution of the orignal game) instead of BIS, depicts the same conflict, but places the player in the role of a Russian rather than American soldier who (somewhat ridiculously) during the course of the campaign switches from his steadfast fight against American forces to battling his own countrymen in order to pave the way for an American take-over of the island. Another add-on, Resistance, is set three years before the actions in the two preceding games. The player plays the role of an ex-Special Operations soldier. The player has to liberate his native island, invaded by the Soviet Union. Being the leader of a ramshackle uprising, you must use your resourcefulness to salvage and gather as many weapons and as much ammunition from your fallen enemies to supplement your supplies. The Resistance expansion pack also updates the graphics, sounds and multiplayer mechanics, adding much more than the Red Hammer expansion and thus drastically improving the original game. Missions in OPF are not by any means limited to the usual co-operative Single-Player Campaign and conversarial mulitplayer missions such as Capture the Flag (two teams scoring points by siezing the flag in the centre of the map and returning it to their flagpole) and Deathmatch (all vs. all in a veritable bloodbath). A server host has the ability to choose co-operative multiplayer missions where a team of human players works in tandem to accomplish specific objectives, as well as the fantastic Capture The Island (CTI) mode where two teams of human players or alternatively one team of humans and one team controlled by AI have the ability to build their own bases complete with basic defences, train AI infantry units, build empty or AI-crewed vehicles and clash in properly proportioned, large-scale battles. Another unique game type is the 'Cops and Robbers' modification. Two teams respectively representing lawlessness and law enforcement work against each other on the custom-made, smaller island of Skye. While the robbers are solely interested in purchasing illegal weaponry & vehicles from AI dealerships, robbing the National Bank and the local Cinema for cash, gunning down and evading the police and generally causing havoc; the cops must keep law and order by patrolling the entire island, investigating suspicious activity, searching suspected criminals for weapons and if necessary imprisoning or killing dangerous assailants. It is not uncommon to play games with other players in which you simply test new addons and mess around and have a laugh. Operation Flashpoint also includes an in-game mission editor which can be used to create anything from simple missions (with some practice and/or by using some of the extra tools that are available on the web) to professional missions or "campaigns" (groups of missions with an overall storyline). Most missions are highly scripted but take place in a large game world. The game world doesn't consist of maps as most do, rather the events happen on open islands. These islands are large and if you attempted to travel from one end to the other on foot it would likely take you as long as two hours. Although Operation Flashpoint's fan base is somewhat smaller to that of wider-audience first-person shooters like Half-Life or Quake (most likely due to its realism being an undesirable factor for some gamers), it is still very active; a great number of missions (10000+) created using Flashpoint's mission editor are available for download on fan pages, and fan created mods (25+) and addons (2000+) have already been released as well as many still in progress. Operation Flashpoint was developed by Bohemia Interactive Studio (BIS) and distributed world-wide by Codemasters. The sequel, Operation Flashpoint 2 (OFP2), is due to come out in 2006. System Requirements: Minimum: Pentium II 400 MHz, 64MB RAM, Windows 95/98, DirectX 8.0, 8 MB 3D accelerator, sound card, 2x CD-ROM drive, 300 MB hard-disk space

Related games in the series

Operation Flashpoint: Resistance (PC), released in 2002 as a expansion pack to the orginal

System Requirements: Windows XP/2000/98, Direct X 8.1, 256 MB RAM, 733 MHz CPU, 1 GB hard-disk.

Operation Flashpoint: Xbox (Xbox), a version of Operation Flashpoint released March 1, 2005 for the console Xbox.

System Requirements: Xbox console system.

Awards

partial listing

PC ZONE Classic Award
IGN Editors Choice Award
Simulation Headquarters Best of E3 2001
Gamespy: Best of 2001 (PC Action)
Computer Gaming World's Editors Choice Award
The Adrenaline Vault: Seal of Excellence Award
ECTS winner
The Wargamer:Award of Excellence
Gamestar.de Award
PC Gamer Awards

External links

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