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SWEET GAME

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: May 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is by far the best FPS out there. I've played Alien Versus Predator 2 Ghost Recon Medal Of Honor but this is by far the best. It's extremely realistic. the game includes the original and both expansion packs. THe graphics kick and the weapons are sweet. WHen u play the game you actually feel like ur in the military. you got ur captain yelling u orders bullets zipping by and tanks being destroyed. Best FPS out there.

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.

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!!!

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.

Best Part about OF

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: January 29, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Everyone's covered the great aspects of this game, but they've left one thing out:

When compared to MOH Allied Assault/Clancy, etc... this game is WIDE OPEN. One of the things I hate about typical FPS games is that the environment is too small. You can feel the game developers pulling you through the game in a certain way (see MOH, Max Payne, Clancy's to some extent.)

With OF, you literally have the entire island at your disposal and the islands are huge. If you see an enemy patrol, you figure out how to best neutralize them. After playing the original OF, I bought some other FPS games where you walk down a hall and shoot stuff and just got bored with them.

Also, you might be walking down a hill and hear a bullet whiz by without even hearing the report of the rifle. Either it's a sniper or a normal soldier trying to hit you from far off. This never happens in other games... Graphics do seem a little tired when compared to newer games, but gameplay makes up for this. I can't play Ghost Recon/MOH over & over like this game. The enemy AI, environments, and realism is too engrossing. While it's frustrating to be immediately killed with a good shot by the enemy, this contributes to the realism and certainly makes you think before taking action. Once an enemy has you in the open, you can dodge bullets by jumping/moving side to side like in some games.... Replay value is extremely high.

Just one question: When's the next OF coming out?

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!

Th Greatest FPS Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 17, 2004
Author: Amazon User

One of the greatest, and most realistic shooting game ever. Forget about MOH! Gotto have this one. Never got bored. Unlike other FPS games this one's got:
- a real lifelike graphics
- a huge place that you can use it at your advantage
- fight with anyhting you can find from weapon storages and dead soldiers
- use any kind of vehicles (choppers, humvees, tanks, motocycle, etc)
- command up to 12 men each specialized in different fights (regular infantry, snipers, special ops, etc)
- face the enemy where you decides to fight (unlike other games) like forest, city, mountain, village, etc. (even through water if you can find a boat)
- (best of all) your enemy is AI!

If you are online and can communicate with your teammates well this one will make you feel like you're in real battle. I can't wait this winter 2004 when "Operation Flashpoint 2" will come out.

You won't be sorry if you buy this one.

Most open-ended and the mod community is still alive.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: June 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I've had Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis since late 2001 and have also since got the expansion packs AND downloaded huge amounts of addons and mods for the game. I still play it. For those who say this game is "old-skool" and it has old-fashioned graphics, obviously care more about graphics and effects than what makes a game a game. Gameplay! Enjoyable, realistic, leaves-you-begging-for-more gameplay! Besides since the latest expansion came out graphics were improved. A professional quality modification called FDF (Finnish Defence Forces) updated the original games sounds and graphics! Many people have said Far Cry is open-ended and lets you do anything you want. Well i must say that its just another shooter. Its so-called "open-endedness" is just a couple more paths through the jungle. You still end up the same place. And you always play the same character. Same goals, "Be the one-man army! Kill the monsters and bad guys and save the world!" PLEASE! Well, you know what i'm getting at. In the user made missions i've downloaded. I've been a civillian fleeing an invasion, a police officer, an FA-18 Hornet pilot, an officer of the Red Army, a Czech soldier... i mean i could go on all night. Theres so many different things. With all this you can overlook any faults this game has. And i'll still be playing this "old-skool" game until Operation Flashpoint 2 comes out because i'm not fooled by fake "open-endedness" and fancy graphics. I'm in it for the gameplay! Medal of Honor and Far Cry and countless others are a blast. But when you've finished them. What? Thats why i play Flashpoint. Its different from those. THAT is what i say.

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