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 Very enjoyable game February 22, 2010
Christopher L. Crowe (WEST MILFORD, NEW JERSEY, US)
I play many Military games and have found this is the best realistic teamwork game ever.
It is not a quick play game. You need a few hours to experience the full effect of the game.
For serious military Sim gamers this is highly recommended.
 Miss Ols OFP January 29, 2010
Critic Going Critical (Flying my Aircraft)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I love Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crises and its add ons Red Hammer and Resistance. I even timed my computer purchase around Armed Assault only to find out it didn't work well on Vista. So I eagerly awaited ARMA 2 hoping it would be everything Armed Assault was suppose to be. I was disappointed.
I do not play online multi player. I am only speaking of single player campaign mode.
The people at BI spent alot of time selling you on a game where like the original you can drive anything, fly anything and you can use your enemies weapons. In the campaign all that hardware is either locked or forbidden. i.e. they explode and burn as soon as you shoot out the crew.
The game was full of bugs, the most annoying of which, NVGs operating at night are effected by cloud cover? So when a cloud flies by in the sky my Night Vision actually gets darker?
Other operating things that bothered me, there is always tall grass! Where I can't see/shoot even on a hill top with a scope, so if that is the case what is the point of allowing your player to go prone?
The game requires a lot of just traveling around. If I give driving to AI team mates they crash into every building at an intersection. So I end up driving 6, 10+ Kilometers, in a civilian car or a truck. Starforce 41 Crashes and explodes 15% of the time.
One of the missions gives you the option to kill someone that ends up being invincible. I hear the patch fixed that.
I end with this, ARMA 2 made me miss OFP so much I actually installed it on my new computer and replayed the old campaigns. I still had more fun with a game that was released 10 years ago than ARMA 2.
An intelligent, accurate, but fun simulator January 26, 2010
Roger Turner
Arma II is indeed buggy, but playable, and it is even more playable after 5 patches were released. The game is massive, and incredibly detailed. It is extremely re-playable due to its online, mod, and mission/map editor capabilities. The graphics are AMAZING (although difficult for a powerful computer to run) the game is challenging, yet interesting. The weapons and vehicles are well made, the computer player has the highest degree of control over his character than any other game.
I recommend buying ARMA 2!!
the series of operation flashpoint January 19, 2010
Riyadh Alqadiri (ny)
just buy this game if u want to play rial war game all its like rial humans and Vehicles and land lives yes its like ofp but whith more updates and will come expasion and now can more update from site of the game
please dont buy (Operation Flashpoint - Dragon Rising) its not for pc game its for playstation and xbox in pc verry bad game sheme to codemasters for this game to pc
 Pretty good, though be warned. January 6, 2010
Angrypencils
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
ArmA2... Personally, i absolutely love this game, it's incredibly realistic, forces you to think while still needing to be a good shot. The single player campaign isn't bad, and it branches out into several different ending depending on the choices you make during the game, though it is known for being a bit buggy. The multiplayer is really what saved this game, to be honest. There are many different modes, probably around 10 or so different modes, though i honestly haven't counted. Arma2 really is a great for for tactical PVP, where you actually have to have some kind of strategy to defeat your opponents. Now, this game IS NOT FOR EVERYONE!! When i say it's realistic, i mean it is realistic, you are probably going to die in one shot, maybe two if you're lucky. However, you can't just go running and jumping around the map like a crazy person magically getting headshots on anyone you see. first off, the map is something like 225 square kilometers, at least the big map, Chernarus is. There is a smaller map, an island called Utes as well. Anyway, if you play this game like Call of Duty or Counterstrike, i can assure you, you will either die repeatedly or throw this game out the window. If you are one of the people who can actually appreciate the fact that you really can't go Rambo on everyone's ass, then you will probably enjoy this game. The majority of game modes are PVP, but there is co-op also. Personally, i like the co-op modes the best, mostly because i enjoy working with a team of friends to defeat an enemy that can make decisions much faster than a typical human. Unfortunately, with the AI, Arma2 gets a little more realistic than reality. They have tried to fix this through various patches, to some effect, and although it has indeed helped, the AI in Arma2 will always be a bit superhuman. As far as their accuracy and tactics and such, it's a very good balance, however BIS must've thought it was a good idea to give the AI some kind of built-in radar that allows them to see through hills and past tall grass and trees that would obscure any normal human's view. Now, i do realize that it would be extremely difficult, and resource-heavy, to recreate a human's sensory capabilities in AI, but it's ridiculous. They can hear you from the other side of a mountain. On another level though, it does make it more challenging, therefore much more satisfying when you manage to defeat the AI. As for community, well, i'm going to be honest, at this point in the game's lifespan, the giant community it has following it is basically the only thing updating the game. However, there must be a lot of very good developers devoting time to mods and maps and such because the community addons for Arma2 are mostly amazing. Especially with the recent release of ACE2, which almost completely fixes most of Arma2's more common failings, as well as adding tons of content. Graphically, Arma2 is going to kick the crap out of your computer if you don't have a recent computer. I am able to run the game on a nVidia 7900 with a dual-core 2 Ghz processor at a decent resolution with low settings at about 25 FPS during calm scenes, and about 15 to lower twenties during more frantic scenes, such as large airstrikes, explosions, etc. However, if you have a high-end machine that can max out the settings, let me tell you, the game looks damn near photo-realistic. Incredibly stunning graphics, as long as you have a good machine. There's also a ton of customization options for your soldier, mostly faces that come with the game but the large community has released loads of skins, faces, even soldiers from different countries. The in-game editor is also a very powerful tool that is actually fairly simple and powerful to use after a bit of practice. You will be able to make a mission probably straight from the first time you use the editor, although i'll be honest on this point, triggers are a bit more complicated. I still haven't figured out how to allow you to win the game, although there IS a way, i just haven't bothered to google it yet.
So, my final statement : Without mods, the game, though still fantastic, will feel as though they released it while they were still working on it. Then, you update it and maybe pick up ACE2 or some of the other mods, and the game will probably be one of the best you've ever played.
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