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The BIG DOG levels the field again!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: May 06, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Others have tried, but there's only one game series that delivers the level of realism, freedom and vast terrain needed for combined military operations. The OFP/ArmA series has only disappointed the weak and immature. It has elevated the standards all other military simulations should follow. Bohemia Interactive has once again blown my helmet off. Take it from me, save your money and stop buying games that leave you feeling cheated. This is the ONLY combat game you'll need for a LONG time.

7-year OFP Pilot/Tactician

Been Playing the German version

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: May 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I was a big fan OFP and this is basically the same thing with updated graphics and maps. The editor is cool to create your own battle packs also there are a ton of mods out already.

This is the only realistic fighting sim there is so don't look elsware.

I can't believe it!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Finally it gets released!!! This is the mother of all tactical first person shooter/military simulations. This is about as realistic as it gets, I know, I'm in the USMC infantry. I especially love the supplementary missions that allow you to change the course of the main mission you're trying to accomplish! I also love that the editor is so powerful, you could almost create a whole other game from it!

Good Sequel to Op Flashpoint

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game is basically Operation Flashpoint with better physics, graphics, AI, weapons, etc. The game is very demanding on one's hardware. I am not sure even a top end machine could run this game with everything maxed out and still have frame rates over 30 in the towns. Still, even if your machine is a year old, and have to run the game on medium settings, the graphics are still pretty decent.

It has been said before, but this game is more a combat simulator than it is a first person shooter. Realism is not sacrificed for game play, which can be very frustrating sometimes, but overall provides a rewarding experience when one succeeds at a mission.

ArmA: Combat Operations

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I'm pretty much satisfied with this game to the max. The extensive realism and multiplayer/campaign is extremely fun. It's takes awhile to get use to but after that it's all fun. I recommend anyone that wants to play a realistic military simulation to play this game.

Fantastic Military Sim with Tons of gameplay variety

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: June 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you feel as if the campiness and over-sized weaponry of other FPS games are getting just a bit repetitive and old, check out this game. Fly an AH-1Z Cobra, take pot-shots from the turret of an M1 Abrams, or engage in deadly special operations behind enemy lines, disrupting activities and blowing up their bases. It is also one of the few new FPS games to include cooperative multiplayer, which, combined with their easy-to-use mission editor where you can modify missions on the fly while your team is waiting in queue for the next mission, the ability to import in maps from OFP and user-made vehicles (search around...the mod community is already active), allows for some really fun teamplay online.

Best War Sim Yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: June 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Operation Flashpoint, you can't go wrong with this one.Now that it's patched to a respectable level, it's the only thing i play.

Note: definitely for sim fans over gamers.

Updated Review.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: July 07, 2007
Author: Amazon User

What made me write this review was the fact that most of the updates I red here are largely out of date. Since it's shaky release and several patches the game is much smoother and many problems have been fixed. The modding community is now very active and there are literally hundreds of addons to try, with many more on the way. If you were a fan of the orginial operation flashpoint, or the orginial Ghost Recon you will love this game.
The only disappointment is the single player campign. But this game really shines when you play cooperative multiplayer with close like-minded freinds who enjoy the kind of realism ArmA offers.

Great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is very underrated. Very realistic, even better with a few mods. Good graphics if you can run it with everything turned up, but it still looks decent even with low settings. And with a built in editor, and Online play the possibilities are endless. Just go on youtube and look it up. Lots of videos that show what its all about. Or just download the demo and try it.

An old patient OFP player

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: May 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

OK. This is the best mil sim game out there right now. When you have the Australian DF and USMC backing it up as adopters of the military version, namely VBS1/VBS2, it should raise any gamer's eyebrow. The civillian version is this North American release 1.06. There's three areas to be reviewed; the game engine, the missions, and the modding community's contribution.

ArmA: Combat Operations is a modern battlefield sim. that uses a huge map.
Old die hard fans of OFP will pick up all the familiar controls like a duck to water. You can basically fire, drive, fly anything in the game. This time around, there's true vegetation compared to the TRON like hills of OFP, and improved lighting, sound occlusion and doppler delay, and weapon accuracy/wind drift/range drop off. The only diff is that a M-136 AT can be reloaded, and not disposable. Russian RPG-7V's are reloadable. You will hear a lot of gamers complain why is my M4 not firing like a laser anymore?
Lol. Welcome to the world of 150m accuracy, kid.

At the height of OFP, which was heavily supported by the modding community, you could drive a T-95, fly a Commanche, control a modern AA battery network, and even had aerial drones and access to Challenger/Leopard A6/Merkava MBT's. In this latest release by Bohemia Interactive Software, you have a limited set of infantry wpns and vehicles compared to what was available as provided by the modding community, but it is a robust set of equipment nevertheless. Reviews like some of the ones above are from players not used to the mil sim, modern battlefield environments provided in ArmA. They're used to fighting in a confined map, blocked off alleyways, linear CH maps where sniping is a joke when you can read the name tags on the target. After you play ArmA, you'll feel like that you were fighting in a fish bowl in the other games compared to the possibilities here.

Which leads us to the 2nd area for review. The missions. The first review above is referring to a map called "Evolution", where you start out as rank: Private, and after completing objectives, and scoring "kills", you gain rank in mission, and get access to better wpns and vehicles. This is a new format of map that has only partial comparisons to what is available in other games. This is not the only mission format to the game. Co-op missions with multiple objectives, Death matches, Capture the Flag, and the Command and Conquor like format of RTS/CTI are also available.

We now come to the third and most signifigant area for review: modders.
"Evolution" is the latest in mission formats that has taken this game to a new plateau, and on most nights, you will find over 50% of public servers running this mission. One of the primary reasons is that it stops team and asset killing almost completely. "Evolution" is but a star in the sea of modding community contributions. Most OFP players expect the full inventory of missions, equipment, scripts, will be ported over to the ArmA environment. I read somewhere that in other games, you pretty much fight like in an arena, nose leading like environment, which simplified, amounts to something like being handed a gun in a telephone booth and told to start fighting. In ArmA, you have your objective, equipment, and you choose how, when and where to achieve victory over your objective. Guess the first reviewer prefers telephone booths.

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