Operation Flashpoint 2 (PC)

Operation Flashpoint 2 (PC)

Released
09/10/2009
Platform
PC
Game Genre
Action, Adventure, First Person, Shooter, Shooting

Unavailable for purchase at this time

Description

Building on the original game's heritage, Operation Flashpoint 2 aims to deliver the most realistic modelling of conflict scenarios in a new contemporary theatre of war. By offering a multitude of military disciplines, gameplay delivers warfare more realistic and intense then ever before, while an extensive multiplayer component creates battles on an incredible scale. The game challenges a new generation of players to survive the chaos and rapidly evolving situations of military combat in a new and contemporary warzone.

* Operation Flashpoint 2 gives players the freedom to handle military crisis situations on their initiative. Unscripted missions task players with real objectives, such as laying down covering fire, covering a friendly units retreat or conducting short-range recon patrol. Armed with cutting edge military hardware, players will need to balance brute force with intelligent use of tactics. Once players have completed the campaign, a Mission Editor enables gamers to create their own single player and multiplayer missions
* Players command and control a wide variety of multi-component, multi-weapon vehicles, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, APCs, attack and utility helicopters. Fully loaded weapons and individual ammunition types are simulated with detailed ballistic physics, based upon individually-crafted mechanics. The character damage system authentically depicts the terrible wounds and injury from modern weapons to communicate the reality of combat
* Players fight as infantry soldiers in battle, drive tanks in armored assaults, pilot helicopters in air strikes, and infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives and rifles to machine guns, grenade launchers and laser designators for air strikes. In whichever role the player chooses, they experience the fierce and brutal reality of warfare and the shock and awe of contemporary firepower unleashed on the arresting scale of modern combat
* Immense play areas of more than 135 square miles give players a multitude of tactical decisions on how to best accomplish missions. Densely packed with environment detail and objects, valleys, mountains, coastlines, towns, villages and industrial complexes all combine to deliver a rich and challenging tactical environment. The world is persistent, so that buildings destroyed in one campaign mission will be destroyed in the next
* Operation Flashpoint 2 models the environment, objects and people in realistic detail, but its visual styling will embrace documentary techniques. The camera work through cut-scenes is heavily influenced by television war reports that are often shot under extreme circumstances delivering a unique look with incorrect exposure, severe camera shake and loss of focus

Customers who bought this item also bought

Product Details

Compatible Controllers
Mouse & Keyboard
Network Play
Yes
Game Developer
Codemasters
Game Rating (AU)
MA15+
Game Rating (UK)
15
Number of Discs
1

Screenshots

Customer Reviews

REVIEW SNAPSHOT®

by PowerReviews
Operation Flashpoint 2 (PC)
 
2.0

(based on 1 review)

Reviews

Reviewed by 1 customer

Displaying review 1

Back to top

 
2.0

So much hype but ended in disappointment

By AJ

from Adelaide, South Australia

About Me Frequent Player

Verified Reviewer

Pros

  • Great Cut Scenes
  • Interesting Story Line
  • Moderate Learning Curve

Cons

  • Brainless AI
  • Confusing Options
  • Lacks Realism
  • Outdated Controls
  • Poor Graphics
  • Poor Mission Design
  • Poor Online Play

Best Uses

  • Kids
  • Teenagers

Comments about Operation Flashpoint 2 (PC):

I waited so long for this game (not sim, game!) and as a fan of the original Operation Flashpoint, had high expectations of the sequel, especially that Codemasters were up against their former partners (whom they collaborated with for the original). Needless to say, I think the winner clear, but depending on what you want to get out of this series.

If you are after a more arcade like military sim with the typical Codemasters touch of menu graphics overkill and bright surreal colours everywhere you go, then this is the game for you. It is more for the casual gamer who has a spare couple of hours to do a mission, then do it again but only better.

I found the in game commands and vehicle controls to be clumsy and at times detrimental to the mission. You do get use to it though, in the same way you get use to drinking coffee without milk. That isn't to say Codemasters have completely fluffed this one. I think with more maturity this game could have been branded a sim. The original OFP was at the time considered a sim, however, with advances in AI, graphics and physics engines, the bar has been lifted higher and what worked then, just does not cut it now.

On the positive side, OFP2 has delivered more realistic weapon sights and displays, something I was surprised to see missing in its main competition. But this does not make up for the other faults. I was particularly disappointed in the graphics and physics of the environment. I would have thought that after all the leaps and bounds the gaming industry has made in realistic environments over the past 2 to 3 years, that OFP2 would deliver something special, yet it seems everything was draw for the console, which again underlines my point that this is a game and not a sim.

If you are after a sim, look elsewhere and spend the time to improve on the other programs. If you are after something more arcade like then Operation Flashpoint 2 is for you, only do yourself a favour and purchase it on PS3 or 360. I wish I had!

Displaying review 1

Back to top

Feedback Form
Customer Feedback