First things first: The reviews for Operation Flashpoint 2 are mediocre. Gamerankings currently has the game at 76% with the lowest score being 7/10 and the highest 8.5/10. Gametrailers just released their video review and gives a 7.1. As I own the game I say: Try before you buy, it has it's ups and downs.
VG247 reports that there is DLC planned for the game as well. I mean, it was obvious:
“We’ve got some very ambitious plans with DLC – our first pack is coming up in a matter of weeks,” said Lenton.
“Our team are already prototyping all sorts of stuff to be released as DLC and we’re really excited about it. It’s a really different type of market now; I remember five or six years ago, you’d get a game, finish it, put it back on the shelf and that was it. But now it’s almost as though the game’s release is just the beginning, really.
“Ours is a game that lends itself very well to expansion – there will be weapons packs, map packs – all sorts of things we can do to get our product out there.”
The third news on this game is that an Australian gamer filed a law suit against Codemasters for advertising the game wrong. Operation Flashpoint 2 is described as open world game but in reality it is an corridor shooter in which you can decide to shoot from here or there because in the end you'll have to hit certain targets anyway. The user called himself "Not Happy!" in Codemasters' forums and added that the length of the game is poor, because it's only 11 missions and 6 bonus missions and not thirty missions as the prequel Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis had. His thread was closed by a Codemasters mod saying that this were the wrong place for a campaign like that.
False advertisment can't be denied, I think. I'm a little bit pissed about that as well.
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That's only one of many false claims by Lenton. Correct, they advertise "free roam." this is false. Move 275m from the combat area and the mission ends.
They also say you can drive any vehicle. False
They say it takes 9.5 hours to WALK the island from one point to the other. False 3 hours on run mode which is the same speed as "walking" in other games. Walking is like crawling. So you can CRAWL to one end to the other in 9 hours.
Damage models - horrible
Enemy cannot hit you because of bad predication programming. You can literally side-step and the enemy cannot hit you. They always shoot behind you. AI is atrocious. You can walk right up to them and stab them. Sometimes they don't engage you if you stand in front of them.
No airplanes. A war with no airplanes?!?
They claim, "Everything that made the Original Great, we've included". False NOTHING that was in the original is included. Nothing.
They claim you can MOD it from the community. FALSE The game files are encrypted and must be hacked on the hex code level.
Multiplayer - non-playable due to severe lag. No dedicated servers. No CD key or anti-cheat mechanism. Game is full of hackers that can run 10x speed, unkillable, and have unlimited ammo.
The game is probably the worst representation possible of the Original. When you see what the game is, compared to the promotional marketing, everything is false. I'm not joking or exaggerating. I beat the game in 4 hours 36 min. Took them 7 years to develop this pile. DO NOT waste your money. Avoid at all costs.
The more I tried to play Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising, the more I appreciated the TRUE king of Military Simulations - ARMA and ARMA2.
Contrary to what Codemasters claims, Bohemia Interactive Created the Original Operation FlashPoint and Codemasters published it only. Once they split, Bohemia continued to develop their simulation engine and actually SELL simulations to REAL MILITARY. This is reflected in Arma2.
and if you talk about the truth in Codemasters forums, you insta-banned. They wanted to use the name Operation Flashpoint to sell copies, but the game falls way short of their claims.
Don't waste any time or money with Dragon Rising. Get Arma2 and don't look back. Dragon Rising is EPIC FAILURE on all levels.
On Xfire, the day of launch, they had 20,000+ reported playing on line, in less than a month, it's showing between 100-150 people playing. The game is dead already.
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