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Enjoy Realistic shooters? Get this game.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: July 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Do you like realistic military combat?! Then get this game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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!

Awesome - esp. for a bargain bin game!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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!!!

The game of many years

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: April 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Operation Flashpoint G.O.T.Y. has got something for everyone that enjoys war games. There are single missions,campaign missions (where you start with no rank and work your way up throughout the game, to a commanding officer),multi player (online or network), and my favorite is the mission editor (you design your own game using any map offered in the game and almost if not every item in the game using computer commands to make the game play the way you want it to, even with multiplayers online! you can save your own game that you've made to single missions or multiplayer missions, and you can merge two games together to create one game! the graphics are good but not outstanding, and read the computer requirements before you decide to buy it, if buying for p.c. OPERATION FLASHPOINT GAME OF THEYEAR ED.

unrealistic, frustrating but with a lot of potential

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: December 24, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The game is touted as a "combat simulation" but the single
player combat is totally unrealistic and ultimately frustrating.
None of the fundamental and basic real life combat techniques
of "squad rushes", "bounding overwatch" or "cover fire" are
implemented. The AI combines the unlikely qualities of utter
idiocy (eg. leaping up in front of hostile enemies) with
superhuman fearlessness and impossible accuracy with their
weapons (fancy being zapped through the forehead from 600 yards
away from a guy firing one round from a Kalashnikov!?).

That said, however, the extensive and enthusiastic third party
community that has grown up around Flashpoint, and the almost
unequalled facility for "modification" sets this game well apart.
Some of the deficiencies of the game out of the box are fixed to
some extent by third party efforts. Also the sheer scope of the
game is unique and exciting. No restrictions are placed on how
exactly one accomplishes a mission for example, and the whole
expanse of extremely large battlefields are free to exploit.
Sadly, however, the default missions are somewhat idiotic and
unrealistic (for example a mission has the player attempting to
thwart the "real and present danger" of a thermonuclear threat
with 8 buddies, a rifle and a "satchel charge" - utter nonsense).
However, a fully functional "mission editor" is provided and the
enthusiastic "third party community" has abundant resources
available for using it to its fullest.

The third party "modding community" also offers upgrades ranging
from improvements to and augmentations of the basic effects to
realistically rendered troop and vehicle units from virtually
any modern army worthy of note.

And played multiplayer, with mature playmates, this game is
unsurpassed as a "tactical simulation" (just ask the real life
professional armies that use - adaptations of - it for informal
training).

Times have changed...

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 12
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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.

Not what I expected

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 31
Date: February 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I was looking for a good, realistic military shooter, since I had been very dissapointed with the Call of Duty series. I thought those were childish games, totally unrealistic commando crap. So I was looking forward to this one with very high expectations.

I was totally dissapointed.

I don't usually complain about graphics, but it had the graphics of the original Rainbow Six. And worse.

The enemy AI, said to be the best AI in computer gaming, does nothing but hit the ground when they spot you and try to fire at you.... sometimes. Most of the times they just run towards me without firing. What the heck? Are they trying to stab me or something?

The only weapons availiable in this game are grenades, AK-47's and M-16's. Mmmm.

Maybe I'm missing something- you can only save once during a mission? I found that after hitting the "Save" button for the first time, it would vanish from the menu. What the heck?

Missions consist of advancing with your troops, finding a pair of ruskies every 2-3 minutes, shooting them, and repeat. I thought COD was childlish, but after playing this I really miss the large scale, trench battles. This is NOT fun.

Great Value

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: June 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

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.

Enveloped

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 25, 2004
Author: Amazon User

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!

A different 1st person shooter

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This 1st person shooter makes a new era in this kind of games. Maybe not so graphically espectacular as Medal of Honor or similars, but with realistic ballistics and weapons.
A single shot at 1000m can kill you and the weight of ammo and weapons is limited, so you can not behave as a Bradley tank as you do in MOHAA, for example.
The enviroment is very big, with a tactical use of maps and obstacles, and there is not so much pleople as in other shooters.
You can manage a wide range of infantry weapons, including RPG or LAW grenade launchers, guided AA and AT missiles, machine guns, and a wide range of vehicles, including M-60, M1A1, T-55, T72 tanks BMP or Bradley ATVs (nice realistics, but it is NOT a tank simulator), or helicopters (poorly realistic).
As a complement ther are some cars and even a bus, useful for ambientation.
This is not an arcade, is nearer a tactical trainer for an officer academy...
It comes with 3 campaigns, the original one for Western forces, Resistance (Nice Anti-soviet Propaganda exercise) and Red Hammer (A really shame if you are not an US citizen).
If you want to use this game as a soviet-eastern-block soldier, better make your own missions with the editor.
The editor has 2modes, one simple an manageable and the otherreally comprehensive but difficult to manage.

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