Rating: 
Summary: Great game, if flawed
Review: Operation Flashpoint is a great game
Pros:
Grear army, tank, helecopter sim
Long Campaign, good, if a bit unrealistic plot
Lots of weapons and vehicles
Great sound
Varied objectives
Some great graphics
Huge maps
Cons:
Poor voice acting
Cant reload and move at the same time
Bad clipping
Bad graphics up close
A few bugsOverall: A great military sim, if you can overlook the flaws
Rating:
Summary: Awesome - esp for a bargain bin game!
Review: This game did not get the popularity or the recognition it deserved. First off, it was one of the first tactical combat FPS simulators where you could actually drive any vehicle, explore endless environments, etc.. and it was released a whole year before some other games that could do the same (BF1942 comes to mind). You can do so much in this game, it's too awesome. Like pick up rifles, ammo, grenades off dead soldiers. You can snipe, assault, drive, use heavy ordinance. It's truly awesome. Also, I picked up a utility off of Fileplanet/Gamespy which allows you to do multiple saves in-mission. This will help alleviate any stress some gamers may feel when they play this game - it feels that real when you pllay it. Cheers!!!
Rating:
Summary: ...speachless
Review: Im..Im just proud i even played it. OF:CWC is the most realistic team based game there is. This is what started me on the genre.... and im glad it did! There is just soo much effort put into this game that you forget that you are in your house but... im not saying you will feel you're in the game because thats chessy but that its just you and the computer in a totally black room. Now.... this is a extremly team game because your commander is right when he says noone wants to be a hero.. i learned this myself... you need your team to stay alive... everybody has their own job and its just WOW... listen get this game... then get expansion(s)... then ghost recon...then that expansion(s)...then get battle field 1942 and then those expansion(s).... LISTEN, just get the game and thats a order SOLDIER!
Rating:
Summary: Best game ever!
Review: I don't understand those who say this is a crappy game.
I love it, and I've spent many days in front of my pc because of this. The single player campaign is awsome, I like the ranking system.
If your good at tossing grenades, then you'll end up as a grenadier. Flying a chopper is fun, and in multiplayer when someone needs an airstrike, I'll be more then happy to help.
They just need to tell me the coordinates and that area will be filled with craters very shortly. If you see an AA missiles coming at you, eject!
then you'll have to continue the fighting on foot. I remember all the sweet moments of playing, for example when I was multiplaying I saw three tanks in the valley below.
I was sitting in a bush, with a RPG launcher.
3 well placed rockets and the tanks were history. But there is some things that ar'nt that realistic.
For example, the LAW launcher is not reloadable as it is in the game, but I guess it was made so to compensate with the RPG. I have three final words for you; BUY THIS GAME!!!
Rating: 
Summary: A dog is still a dog
Review: This game is like going on a blind date. Your friends tell you that she is cute. You talk to her on the phone, and she seems really nice. Then you pick her up, and she's a dog. Shallow, well maybe, but still true. It is a major letdown. This game was the same for me.
1. Graphics are not up to par with current titles in the same genre.
2. The radio comms are horrible. I can't listen to them for very long before I shut down the game.
3. The voice acting (and scripting) is LAME. My final verdict. I should have checked out the demo. And as for my last blind date, I should have demanded a photo. Someday I will learn.
Rating:
Summary: Only if you have nothing better to do...
Review: Very limited in the captivating department...I would recommend this game only if you have nothing better to do.
Rating:
Summary: Great Game
Review: Great game seriously... a really in-depth, versitle, realistic game of it's time. Seriously overlooked by many Operation Flashpoint deserves 10 stars if possible. Great game!
Rating: 
Summary: Horrible...Major let-down
Review: This was the worst game I have ever played before. I gave it the benefit of the doubt, but after about 2 weeks I had to pack it up back in it's box, put it on my shelf, and go back to older games. Complete waste of time and money!
Rating:
Summary: As A Final Note...
Review: I've already reviewed this game, but I just have to say this was true computer entertainment! The entire game played out almost like a movie. It was so incredibly dramatic, I'm having a hard time believing this!
Rating:
Summary: SIMPLY UNFORGETTABLE...
Review: Of all the 1st-person shooters and tactical simulations that have come out since this "real-world military" game trend began sometime in 1998, Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, stands as the best ever! OpFlash not has only realism to the game, it features an enthralling, plausible story, plus a truly memorable gameworld that this game puts you in a real war. OpFlash takes us back to 1985. It is the height of the Cold War, and a maverick is planning for a truly audacious world domination conquest by taking the strategically vital Malden Islands. You can guess that everything snowballs into a huge conflict.
What makes this game so great is that it uses a fantastic world and a great story to build the game around. Although the Malden Islands, where the game takes place on, are three fictional locales, the place is built well enough it seems like a living, breathing place. Flags flutter in the wind, the beautiful beaches feature varying depths and tides, and the cities are well-populated and contain life-like buildings. These small details create a sense that this island is for real, and that you are standing on it at the very moment. As for the islands physically, the game features a world that has almost no boundaries. Unlike other games, which put limits to how far you can go, OpFlash allows you to play in a massive expansive environment, where you can go anywhere, do anything (sort of), and the terrain varies and stretches for hundreds of miles. You can drive from one city to another, or fly from one end of the island to another. You don't feel like you're in it. You ARE IN IT, in a living, breathing, battlefield.
As for the story and the missions, I can only say wow. While the missions are pretty much canned and the story quite linear, it is all interesting enough for you to play hard and have fun. Most of it involves being an infantryman, but the missions are insanely fun and realistic and have enough scripted events and sidetrips to make you dizzy. The open-endedness is what makes the game such a joy to play, because things can go either way. There are also missions where you can drive tanks and fly choppers and an A-10 Warthog, but these missions were some of the low points of the game. Control is completely unrealistic, simplified, but downright impossible at times, and it simply doesn't play out like you are in it. It would have been better if those missions were left out altogether. The drama and mission premise is what saves it from total rejection.
The story is what I explained earlier, but it also goes much deeper than that. The inner-goings of the story include perilous situations, gut-wrenching occourances, plus many other things played through the missions and cut-scenes that make the game so dramatic. For example, there is one mission where it fails, so you and your fellow soldiers require extraction from a UH-60L Black Hawk helicopter. As it arrives, it is being pursued by a Soviet Mi-24 "Hind," and frantic radio warnings don't help and the Black Hawk goes down in flames. I just got the chills watching that. So dramatic, exciting, and heart-wrenching, you are that very soldier and you are watching it all unfold before your own eyes! It all seems like you're in the war, and that fact can't be stressed well enough! Camera angles are even done very well, and helicopter flights coupled with views of the choppers and pilots are a high point. The cut-scenes and voice-overs that make the story happen are well done, but not great. The timing of the voice-overs are sometimes sorridly off, the radio transmissions, while realistic, are scratchy and annoying.
As for game realism, it is unmatched. OpFlash features authentic 1980s U.S. Army and Red Army arsenals, which are modeled down to the smallest detail, however static. Tankes, radios, machine guns, all look like their real-life counter-parts. Even the soldiers are dressed properly! Weapons even work realistically. Accuracy varies, along with effectiveness. One shot doesn't necessarily kill! The M-60 may mow down everyone, but the M-16 doesn't do that so well. AI is great too. While it could use work, nobody acts stupid. The enemy won't come at you directly. They'll rely on support and sneak up on you, ready to catch you while loading your weapon. The same is with your fellow soldiers. They'll listen to orders and watch your back. This creates a real sense of cameraderie.
Graphics and sound is where OpFlash was disappointing. While the graphics aren't bad, it isn't that great. The hundreds of objects littering the world are detailed realistically, but have textures that make them look like very well-drawn concept drawings and most everything is static. The environment (trees bushes) are crudely done and are mostly 2-D objects. Clipping is a major problem, and the human models themselves aren't that great. Not sure why they're not that great, but my guess is that it was a trade-off for the massive gameworld, something many other games can't make so well, which makes the graphics understandable and the effort deserves an A. As for sound, there is almost a dearth of ambient sounds, as there are very little and of low quality, unlike Ghost Recon. Vehicles make very little sound, which isn't authentic either. But the graphics and sound are a small price to pay for everything else that OpFlash has to offer. The soundtrack, on the other hand, is top-notch. Although it features only a few scores, they are well composed and feature some real-life music tracks that fit the story and game so well. It has a lot of variety and isn't the Clancy-military-music epitome that is so standard and bland.
Operation Flashpoint is quite possibly the best tactical simulation ever, because it goes far beyond the norm. It packages up all the realism one could ever want, but then adds the makings of a truly living world that you can step into. This game has truly taken me somewhere else.
|
