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You also start as the leader of your fire team so you're no longer a grunt who works up the ranks and the overall experience is poorer for the lack of these things. You will never see the pilot seat of a tank or helicopter unless you dont follow mission protocol and grab one from somewhere, and even then the variety and usefulness is limited. You never have to set an Ambush and wait for the enemy to come to you.
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Gone are the vehicle rides to and from combat zones, you start on the ground and the mission usually ends by fading to black on the ground, one mission calls for you to assassinate a Chinese General and be airlifted out but the game fades to black with the chopper in the air above the LZ, how hard would it have been to program it to land and take you out? Its a far cry from the slightly cliche but in the end well fleshed out characters of Cold War Crisis as you never really come to know your own characters or your squadmates, they are just faceless machines for you to order around.Īlso missing is little touches that made the original special and you would expect a sequel to build upon. These could be 11 completely unrelated missions as there is very little story to link them together beyond the overall battle for the islands. No Cinematics, no cutscenes and not even the soldiers diary entries those familiar with the first game would expect at the beginning and end of missions. The campaign consists of 11 missions and barring the one cinematic at the start explaining about the situation with the oil rich islands and setting us up with the Chinese invasion, there is no exposition whatsoever. However I was left with a kind of empty feeling on completion of the campaign purely because the only way Dragon Rising betters Cold War Crisis is in the graphics department. In my opinion, its the people coming to the game without ever having played the original game who will get the most enjoyment from it as there really is nothing much that compares to Dragon Rising on the market. The majority of your fighting takes place at large distances and you'll want to be in cover for most of it if you don't want to die very quickly. Gameplay wise anyone unfamiliar with flashpoint should expect an ultra low paced realistic war simulation rather than a shooter.
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The audio is also right on cue with my only personal peeve being the one squadmate who sounded like he had been voiced by Agnes Skinner from the Simpsons, if you hear it you'll know what I mean.
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The original developer of Flashpoint, Bohemia, are gone and developing their own realistic wargames in the disappointing ARMA series so can Codemasters deliver the goods with their own "Sequel"?įirst off the game looks stunning, landscapes are lush if a little repetitive, if you’ve seen one forest you’ve seen em all, and the guns, vehicles and soldiers look the part. I think that is testament to the richness and quality of story in the original game and is also why I came to Dragon Rising with more than a touch of trepidation.
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OPERATION FLASHPOINT COLD WAR CRISIS LEGS BLOWN OFF PC
Almost nine years after the release of the original Operation Flashpoint and its two stellar expansion packs I still occasionally find myself sitting in front of my PC playing them.