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Summary: Do you like realistic military combat?! Then get this game
Review: As everyone have said, this game came as a total surprise. It came from a no-name, small Czech developement studio. But this game is simply amazing. The graphics were ahead of time when the game came out. Tremendously long and interesting military campaigns. Extremely realistic weapon handling. Basically you have to behave like you would in the real world, you have to hide, sneak up on enemies, use tactics not rambo action to move through each mission. I also think this is the first game that allowed a gamer to use the gun's metal sight for aiming like in America's Army. Each campaign in this game will take you at least 30-50 hours to complete, so there's a lot to enjoy. Buy it!
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Summary: Best Part about OF
Review: Everyone's covered the great aspects of this game, but they've left one thing out:When compared to MOH Allied Assault/Clancy, etc... this game is WIDE OPEN. One of the things I hate about typical FPS games is that the environment is too small. You can feel the game developers pulling you through the game in a certain way (see MOH, Max Payne, Clancy's to some extent.) With OF, you literally have the entire island at your disposal and the islands are huge. If you see an enemy patrol, you figure out how to best neutralize them. After playing the original OF, I bought some other FPS games where you walk down a hall and shoot stuff and just got bored with them. Also, you might be walking down a hill and hear a bullet whiz by without even hearing the report of the rifle. Either it's a sniper or a normal soldier trying to hit you from far off. This never happens in other games... Graphics do seem a little tired when compared to newer games, but gameplay makes up for this. I can't play Ghost Recon/MOH over & over like this game. The enemy AI, environments, and realism is too engrossing. While it's frustrating to be immediately killed with a good shot by the enemy, this contributes to the realism and certainly makes you think before taking action. Once an enemy has you in the open, you can dodge bullets by jumping/moving side to side like in some games.... Replay value is extremely high. Just one question: When's the next OF coming out?
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Summary: Best Part about OF
Review: Everyone's covered the great aspects of this game, but they've left one thing out: When compared to MOH Allied Assault/Clancy, etc... this game is WIDE OPEN. One of the things I hate about typical FPS games is that the environment is too small. You can feel the game developers pulling you through the game in a certain way (see MOH, Max Payne, Clancy's to some extent.) With OF, you literally have the entire island at your disposal and the islands are huge. If you see an enemy patrol, you figure out how to best neutralize them. After playing the original OF, I bought some other FPS games where you walk down a hall and shoot stuff and just got bored with them. Also, you might be walking down a hill and hear a bullet whiz by without even hearing the report of the rifle. Either it's a sniper or a normal soldier trying to hit you from far off. This never happens in other games... Graphics do seem a little tired when compared to newer games, but gameplay makes up for this. I can't play Ghost Recon/MOH over & over like this game. The enemy AI, environments, and realism is too engrossing. While it's frustrating to be immediately killed with a good shot by the enemy, this contributes to the realism and certainly makes you think before taking action. Once an enemy has you in the open, you can dodge bullets by jumping/moving side to side like in some games.... Replay value is extremely high. Just one question: When's the next OF coming out?
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Summary: Enveloped
Review: I have not removed this game from my CD drive since recieving it about a month ago. For a second, allow me to skip over the great gameplay, excellent graphics for its time, wonderful campaign mode and excellent co-op. This game contains the BEST mission editor I've ever used. It allows the user to edit a mission in such a way that each one is highly replayable. For those interested in programming it also supports external scripts in Notepad. With plenty of online resources (try searching for "Operation Flashpoint Editing" online) the included tutorial is forgetable to say the least.
As for gameplay, this is not your standard deathmatch type game. This is a war simulator more than a FPS. For a guy who has been sick of not being good enough to fly in BF1942, I'm very pleased with the vehicle interface; point mouse in direction you want to go, add power. This makes the player feel like he's been trained on how to put a UH-60 into a hover. This adds to the overall "war" simulator feel.
The biggest downfall of this game was the realism of weapons effects. Not so much that as the frustration of a gunshot actually killing you. I haven't experienced that much in games before and having to play a 20 minute level again from the start because I "accidently" got out of the tank instead of switching to the gunner's seat.... well you know how much that would suck. Interface...another downfall. The action menu for changing seats in tanks, reloading, swapping weapons, etc. Its constantly changing as your character moves around. You might be trying to place a bomb next to an empty BMP and suddenly you are hoping in the blasted thing. All of this takes getting used to, but once you get past that stage...ooo man. this thing ROCKS!
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Summary: Enjoy Realistic shooters? Get this game.
Review: I have played the original OFP and the Red Hammer expansion all the way through. There is nothing I've played in the first person shooter catagory that even comes close to this game for pure realistic military action. The only reason I give this game 4 stars and not 5 is because of the difficulty of online play. A few very fun aspects of the game: -Awsome, engrosing story line. -Good graphics, exellent effects. The graphics are good. Vehicle modeling is well done. Explosion and fighting effects are very well done. -You can use any weapon you find. Need to blow up an armored personel carrier, use a diffrent rifle, or need more ammo? Pick what you need up off a dead enemy or fallen comrade. -You can use any vehicle you find. As long as you are the commanding officer pressent you can use and order your men to use any vehicle you come across. On occasions you will even find yourself with the opportunity to steal enemy equipment and use it instead. -You play a few diffrent characters throughout the original campaign. An infantry soldier, a Tank commander, A pilot, a special ops soldier. Its very enjoyable to play all the diffrent aspects of these characters from sneaking into an enemy camp to blow up some tanks with statchel charges to leading 4 M1A1 Abrams tanks into a large tank battle. I could go on for a long time about all I love about this game. Here are the few areas of the game that could use improvement: -Online play is fun once you get a game going... but online play only starts when all players are ready - and their is no joining games in progress. Anyone who plays games online knows people are constantly coming and going so it is rather difficult to get a sustainable game going without people leaving on the one side, and without waiting for 5-15 minutes for a new mission to begin if you just logged into a server to join a game. -There are a few AI pathing issues with this game when in close quarters (like soldiers in a house or narrow alley, or tanks trying to navigate around the corner of a building) or in some strange instances when vehicles crash at wierd angles they tend to bounce around in odd ways. But overall this has little negative effect on the game since 99% of the action is out in the open. So if you are looking for a good military game, go get this and it's expansions. It will have you playing for days upon days on the single player missions. As for online play, I had a hard time getting in to it with all the waiting around and botched missions due to people leaving and new ones not being able to join untill a new mission starts.
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Summary: Great Value
Review: I love the original OFP and was looking for one or the other expansions when I came across this package. The Red Hammer expansion alone was selling for 29.99 just recently, here you get all 3 for this great price. Couldn't pass on this one. And be sure to check out the mod community out there they are really putting out some great stuff, for this game.
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Summary: The most kickarse oldschool war game I every played
Review: I remember before I bought GOTY,I had been searching a game that gave me alot of room to do things and a wide variety of of vehicles and many other things,now I had played lots of video games but it was always the same thing...then I went to a 8 year old girls party and one of the older guys around the age of 21 brought me into his house (He had tons of wargame software and immediatly showed me OFP)I joined an internet game and waited,I was expecting it to be like any other game,but when the first round started it seemed like the movie "We were soldier" instantly,people dieing around me and the sound of bullets...I immediatly fell in love with this game,now that I have played it for a year or two I am still hooked on it,especially with all the new addons and mods for it,the Vietnam,WWII,BOH,and much much more..but mods arent the only fun,the millions of addons for instance the Mi26 and M1A2SEP [...] The textures look bad because of the jpeg format but believe me,if you like war and military vehicles then this game is definatly for you,take my word for it,unless you like all this new high detailed stuff and despise oldschool graphics then don't bother.
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Summary: What a GAME!
Review: I used to have this game, but I sold it because it didn't work on my old computer. Now I am getting a new computer and amazon is the only place that sells it! You are probably wondering how I played the game if it didn't work on my old comp: My friend had the game for his computer, which was a supercomputer, and I played it at his house. Here are the ratings: Gameplay 9.8/10: The most realistic game I have ever played in my life, and I am not just saying that. When you are in combat, you fight on large islands, or even real places in other countries. In these battlefields, you can use the entire map to explore, or drive around in a jeep, and the maps are HUGE. You can even go off of the island in a boat and travel around the world and sail to different islands! This is called open-ended gameplay. Graphics 7.9/10: The graphics are great, except for the soldiers/civilians (people). Their hands look really square and the move strange, but the gameplay totally makes up for this, and the vehicle graphics, buildings, and weapons and geography graphics are incredible. Sound 9.5/10: The sound is unbelievable. You could be standing there and hear a bullet come flying by your ear without even hearing the gunshot, and the guns sound amazing. Overall 9.1/10: This is a must-have if you are into war-shooters.
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Summary: Times have changed...
Review: I was hooked on this game when it first came out - spent a couple years playing it over and over again. Unfortunately,
after about a year of not playing it - I thought, what the heck - pop it in my computer for old time's sake and have some fun. I couldn't get past the FIRST MISSION in Red Hammer!!!
And not because it was difficult either - the game has aged so much - the graphics and the sound are really old fashioned...
you think that an AK74 would have a real kick to it - I used to think it did, but after playing games like MOHAA and Call of Duty - the sound of an AK74 in this game is like "Sput! Sput!"
Now, nothing is better than wasting a German with your Thompson, or BAR gun... good times. Sorry folks, the thrill is over - time to move on and make room for some really decent games. However, I am really looking forward to Operation Flashpoint 2.
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Summary: Times have changed...
Review: I was hooked on this game when it first came out - spent a couple years playing it over and over again. Unfortunately,
after about a year of not playing it - I thought, what the heck - pop it in my computer for old time's sake and have some fun. I couldn't get past the FIRST MISSION in Red Hammer!!!
And not because it was difficult either - the game has aged so much - the graphics and the sound are really old fashioned...
you think that an AK74 would have a real kick to it - I used to think it did, but after playing games like MOHAA and Call of Duty - the sound of an AK74 in this game is like "Sput! Sput!"
Now, nothing is better than wasting a German with your Thompson, or BAR gun... good times. Sorry folks, the thrill is over - time to move on and make room for some really decent games. However, I am really looking forward to Operation Flashpoint 2.
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