OPERATION FLASHPOINT: COLD WAR CRISIS (XBOX)
Publisher: Codemasters
Developer: Bohemia Interactive Studio
Producer: Codemasters
Release Date: Winter 2003
Platform: Xbox
Age Rating: ELSPA - 15+
Genre: 1st & 3rd Person Action
Game URL: www.codemasters.com
Game Description:
Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, the multiple ‘Game of the Year’ award winner and world-wide number one PC hit is coming to Xbox. Operation Flashpoint offers the ultimate realistic war experience, which draws the player into a deeply believable military environment. For the first time in an action game, the player controls and commands not just soldiers and squads of all levels, but also land, sea and air vehicles – both military and civilian – from cars, to APCs, to tanks and even military helicopters.
The scenario is modern warfare: It is 1985 in the midst of the Cold War, and Gorbachev has been elected to power bringing with him policies of glasnost and perestroika. However, resistance Soviet groups are opposed to the new wave and are refusing to serve the new regime in Moscow. One group has taken control of an island community, and is using it as an armed stronghold for the old order. Operation Flashpoint opens with the player joining the neighbouring US force against the Soviets.
Additionally, a prequel campaign titled Resistance, set years before Operation Flashpoint’s Cold War Crisis, has been added. Resistance creates an additional 100km2 island and casts the player as Victor Troska, an experienced ex-Special Forces soldier forced to lead the ramshackle Resistance effort against the Soviets before the invasion of the Malden Islands.
Features:
Massive 100km2 open environments means you can go anywhere at anytime; you’re not limited to playing in mission-specific ‘walled’ areas.
Fly or drive over forty, armored air and ground based military vehicles including the UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopter, A-10 Thunderbolt Jet, UAZ 469b Jeep, M1A1 Abrams Main Battle Tank and SCUD Launcher.
Gameplay offers two progressive mission-based campaigns along with stand alone single missions.
True-to-life models and physics provide the most realistic combat experience to date in a console game.
Advanced squad-management system enables players to efficiently issue orders to squad members.
Real time lighting and weather, including accurate star constellations for navigation.
Posted by LNorton at September 05, 2003 07:49 PM
