Anyone tried the game OPERATION FLASHPOINT ?

[leeland]

how is it, i have a chance to get it tommorow at best buy for 30 $...do you all think this is worth the money...how is the internet play and the graphics and game control with the weapons ?

thanks for your input

lee

 

[Moonbender]

The single player campaign is excellent, although I stopped playing as soon as you had to command and control several groups at the same time - I'd have rather preferred to continue following orders. Nevertheless, it was really exciting at times.
Graphics are nice, nothing spectacular, but a good standard. Trees and shrubs look pretty bad, as in every game so far. The levels are vast, easily the largest I ever saw.
Never tried multiplayer, but I heard (and can imagine) deathmatch to be incredibly boring and cumbersome (the game is ultrarealistic, far more so than CS). Cooperative multiplayer could be something the game could excel at, but I don't know if they use that chance.

 

[datalink7]

It is pretty fun if you are into realistic miltary sims.

As for multiplayer, Deathmatch is really boring, cause if you die you wait forever for the game to finish. And you can't zoom around and watch the action like in Counter Strike (major mistake on Codemasters part). But Capture the Flag is a lot of fun because you respawn.

 

[tmv22]

the graphics, in terms of details n textures are mediocre.
gameplay is fine if u like miltitary/action/strategy stuffs

 

[tboo]

I liked it-very realistic. You can download the demo to try it before you buy it

 

[Sleater]

I'm not sold on it yet. First, its a total resource hog. After I installed it, it kept crashing to the desktop when I launched the game. Why? Even after I allocated 256 of my 512 megs of RAM to it (its what it recommended I allocate), I discovered the reason it was crashing is that it also requires a 350 meg swap file. So I had to defrag my hard drive and allocate a larger swap file to windows. That kinda pissed me off. With 256 megs of physical RAM it should never touch the swap file. And I don't like a game dictating the way I manage my operating system. Another knock is the graphics are pretty mediocre and glitchy too.

Finally, its a very difficult game. But if I get past the annoying stuff and take the time to figure out its counter-intuitive interface it seems like it could be a pretty cool game

 

[MichaelD]

I played the demo. I get the magazine "Computer Gaming and CD Rom" so every month I get a demo CD. I found the game to be cumbersome (controlls) and the graphics very mediocre. But then again, I'm not a fan of these strategy-type games where you have to plan everything out.

The scenery is poor. Not much detail at all. I wasn't impressed much. For the fan of these types of games, I'd play the demo first before spending $30. If you like it great, buy it; but if not, you've lost nothing but a few hours of your time.

 

[vash]

If you like Military sims, this is the game to play. There are things to work on for multiplayer support, but the single player experience is quite good. I much prefer the single missions versus the entire single player game, but its all fun still. There is nothing like playing the sniper, crawling into their base and slowly taking them out one by one. I also like hijacking their vehicles and blowing them up with it.

vash