Indeed, it's actually difficult to see how this game will succeed on the consoles. Concessions are made to the use of pads - radial menus, checkpoints that revive your comrades, and so on - but if you're willing to look past these things, it's a difficult game. This is a game that requires patience, a quality most console gamers, it's fair to say, don't have in abundance. This isn't just your PC snob talking here: Dragon Rising never really feels like it has been co-developed for any armchair gamer - whether on the PC or a console - unlike so many big-name games released nowadays.
It's a great relief to be able to write those words as so often we're left pandering to the perhaps-unfair belief that console gamers can't handle anything remotely complex, having to suffer the lukewarm button-mashing tedium-fests that are sloppily ported over. Also Dragon Rising doesn't crash at least, it didn't for us. Even running on maximum graphics setting - one gripe K would be the lack of advanced graphics' settings to tweak - we never ran into any frame rate or performance issues.
The B graphics are good without being anything spectacular, so it should run P well on the majority of reasonably B specced machines. The original Operation Flashpoint I had a reasonable multiplayer element. While it wasn't great, it was fun for a while. It was also bollockingly hard. As we're playing the game before p the game goes out on sale, nobody else I has a copy of it so trying out the multiplayer function is effectively out of the question.
Well take another look at it in a future issue, once the game is out on general release and the multiplayer servers are populated. What we can tel I you about is the I campaign co-op. This is superb fun. We all know playing with other people is great and Dragon Rising doesn't buck the excellence trend.
It's pretty much exactly the same as the single-player experience, just with the added bonus of idiot human players mucking about. While ArmA II had the potential to be superb Dragon Rising actually is, because it doesn't suffer from all the technical issues of the former game. Helicopters don't land on your head, they don't refuse to land if you to do something a little out of the ordinary, and you don't have to chase important NPCs over several kilometres because they got spooked by a bit of gunfire.
All of which we've seen happen when we've played ArmA II. Tbe only problem you might have is an AI driver of any vehicle not having great pathfinding if you're in the commander's seat giving move orders.
Usually they're fine, and this applies to the single-player as well. But sometimes trees can confuse drivers a bit, so they ignore the plants and plough through. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has achieved the singular feat of being a military simulator that's actually fun to play on more than just a "Look how much stuff is here!
Codemasters have remembered that the most important thing for a game to be is fun. At the end of the day, if your CO disintegrates for no reason and you can't proceed with the mission, it doesn't matter how accurate the spark plugs are on the vehicle you're driving, you'll get fed up and sack it off. What you want to do is be given an objective, go there and shoot some baddies, without any weirdness occurring. Dragon Rising makes this activity challenging but always pleasurable. It might be helping you out a bit too much at times with its life-giving checkpoints and magic syringes, but sometimes a bit of assistance isn't a bad thing.
Some people will doubtless hate it saying it's not a par on ArmA II, moaning about how it isn't realistic enough or that the PLA don't have accurate uniforms, but I advise you to ignore the naysayers and play the game. It's not perfect, there are little problems and niggles that can be found if you look for them, but none of them spoil the game or ruin the playing experience. This might not be the proper successor to the original Operation Flashpoint, but as a game in its own right, it's a stormer.
Imagine If You were playing a war game and you suddenly noticed that the weapon you were wielding was held together by eight-sided nuts instead of the statutory six-siders. You'd naturally be horrified, the integrity of the experience would be compromised, and you'd probably never touch it again.
Thankfully, that actual problem has already been rectified, and the person responsible presumably sent to Codemasters' version of Guantanamo Bay. That said, the bloke who spotted this heinous error does admit to occasionally questioning his own sanity. A lovely story, we're sure you'll agree, and a pertinent example of the painstaking attention to detail going into Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, which is already threatening to he the most authentic military simulator ever made.
Or at least since the groundbreaking original game, which is now a ripe seven years old; a lifetime in game development, and indeed modern warfare. As brand manager Andrew Wafer explains, "We took the concept of what Flashpoint was, the first game, and we really tried to refine that and build upon that in terms of the scope that we wanted to do.
That comes down to not just the authenticity of things - like how the modern military works - but things like the size of the environments, the power of the weaponry, elements like multiplayer and the command structure and tactical manoeuvres.
It's about being able to move around in these big environments, make your own tactical decisions and orders, and utilise a vast array of realistic vehicles and weapons to do that.
It's about big battles, it's about big military warfare. It's not small skirmishes with a couple of troops, it's about fighting forces which are equally matched, big global superpower armies. The realistic scenario sees the two sides scuffling over the rights to an oil-rich island off the coast of Russia, north of Japan, with America sticking up for the Ruskies. Based on an actual location, the island is known in the game as Skira, although the topology and geology has been lifted - thanks to Google Earth -from a real-life island in Alaska.
Not content with pilfering an entire island, Codemasters have engineered an erosion system and a water system, with functioning oceans, lakes and rivers.
There's also a bloke whose sole job seems to be building trees, piecing them together branch-by-branch, replete with a detailed damage model. To put that into context, it'll take the best part of three and a half hours to drive from one end to the other, or 20 minutes to fly. Operation Flashpoint 2 will naturally feature very different types of vehicles, with no less that 50 different variants, comprising tanks, helicopters and all manner of acronym-based affairs, each modelled down to the most anal levels, both inside and out Apparently, all of this information is freely available, although as senior producer Brant Nicholas jokes, "I think we're on the Pentagon's 'currently being watched' list.
The Chinese data has unsurprisingly proven slightly harder to attain, although as Nicholas muses, "I'm actually wondering if there's going to be just as many Chinese playing this game as people from other countries around the world online. That adds a fun element, I bet there's going to be real-world competitiveness actually involved in playing online. As for the core single player campaign, it's some 30 missions long, and begins with an invasion of the island, with you playing the part of a lowly grunt receiving orders, before moving through the ranks to the stage where you're the one barking the instructions.
Whereas the co-op mode will require actual intelligence, playing it solo will clearly involve a large reliance on the AI, an aspect that the development team is keen to emphasise. Clive Lindop is the senior designer and AI lead, and enthuses, "One of the things the AI is very good at is looking after itself.
The AI uses real military playbooks. We took infantry manuals, spoke to guys from the US Marines about their experience I of actually fighting in those environments and created an AI system around that. And what kind of kit you've got, I whether he's got friends nearby or not, how much ammunition he's got, what his morale's like, how heavy the fire is coming at him. They won't just run out into a lot of bullets. They'll measure all those things. If you fight differently in a mission from the way you did last time the entire battle will unfold differently.
They'll react and make their tactical decisions based on the situation, depending on what their objective is. By way of example, we're shown a mission where a small squad is charged with the task of flanking an enemy machine gun nest. There's an overhead map portraying the positions of allies, enemies and corpses, and the whole thing could theoretically be played out as a rudimentary RTS game. As in the first game, you rarely get to see the whites of the enemy's eyes, as this is realistic long-range warfare, comprising such established tenets as suppressing fire.
A key improvement from the original game immediately becomes evident, in so much as the enemy can see the wood for the trees. As Lindop explains, "People awarded qualities to the original AI that it simply didn't have. It couldn't actually see trees. It could see trunks, but it muldn't see foliage, so it made nese amazing yard shots and you'd die.
By way of a further example, Lindop says that the enemy's ability to flank you was down to the errant path finding, with the AI largely unable to walk in a straight line. As he says, "What we've done this time is we've kept those experiences that people perceived and made them functional.
We had to wait for the technology to catch up. We very much aim to deliver two things. One is to deliver people's expectations of what that experience was, and the second is to turn up the ante.
We really want to deliver the experience of modern warfare, the lethality of that experience. While there is something vaguely unseemly about podgy men cradling replica weapons and drooling over what is essentially military pornography, in their defence Codemasters aren't seeking to glamourise war. There's a difference between gratuitous and representative damage.
So our goal is not to have gratuitous giblets like Quake , we have context sensitive damage where if you get hit say, in the arm, the texture will actually seep blood in that area. No other game does that. You can have flesh wounds, you can get incapacitating damage, you can get catastrophic damage. A flesh wound is dangerous - if I don't get attention in a certain amount of time I will bleed to death. Just like real life a light hit can be deadly.
And just like real life, it's intended to be a genuinely shit-the-bed terrifying experience. As Lindop says, "I think people will walk away with a serious respect for the guys that stand out there and do it. Even in the game when. The venerable franchise appears to be in safe hands. Purists may baulk at the development on PlayStation 3 and Xbox and the use of the words "fun" and "accessible".
To be honest, OpFlash 2 doesn't seem to be either, which is good, and it looks set to redefine the military experience for a war-sawy audience numbed to atrocities by nightly TV reports.
A massive undertaking, there's a definite "done when it's done" mentality, with a loose release date of simply Used in Iraq, they can be vulnerable to roadside bombs IEDs, or improvised explosive devices, in army jargon.
As anyone who has spent any time with the military will have been reminded, this is not a tank: it is an IFV, or Infantry Fighting Vehicle, used for carrying troops around. When you're stuck in the back with bullets pinging off the exterior, you know you're in a war.
An upgraded version of the Cobra - hence it's nickname the SuperCobra - this four-bladed gunship is primarily used by the US Marine Corps.
In the game you'll be able to fly it and live out your Apocalypse Now fantasies by laying waste to great swathes of Chinese infantry. You Know How it is. Then you realise you're a hardcore military simulation. That's just how things go in the world of ultra-realistic military games, such as Operation Flashpoint and its rival ArmA. Death can come from anywhere, at any time and with extreme prejudice, as they say in the US.
From what we've played of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, it isn't just a jollied-up action-fest tainted by the foul stench of console corruption. While you can see nods to the machines our half-brothers insist on using, like the radial menus used to give commands to your squad, that doesn't mean this sequel is a watered-down arcade game.
In fact, while we wouldn't say it's as brutally realistic as ArmA II, only the insane will scoff at Dragon Rising for not being realistic enough. The preview build we got our hands on contained two missions, but both of these were large enough in scope to indicate that there's going to be plenty to get stuck into when the full game arrives. The first was your standard infiltration mission: you lead a four-man team on a quest to disable a Chinese early-warning system, enabling your fleet to get into position without alerting the main enemy force to their presence.
After completing this - it has to be done within a certain time frame or the fleet has to abort the mission - you then move on to securing a coastal village and a landing zone, or perhaps even driving around looking for secondary objectives to complete. Interestingly, fulfilling one of these opened up another one, so pursuing these seem to be worth it. The second mission involved a beach assault This is a realistic game, remember, so we're not dealing with scripted excitement here.
Thanks to your death-defying antics in the previous mission, you've been able to get onto the beach unmolested by enemy artillery. You see people on TV or in films complaining about the perils of command, but it Jk seems pretty swish to us. Send the grunts in first then take the glory once a mission has been completed.
Early builds of the game made us slightly wary of how the AI - both enemy and friendly - was going to pan out. The usual assurances were bandied about by Codies - claims that everything would be OK in the end, glitches would be fixed before release and so on.
Usually this sort of thing is treated with an "Of course," and a resolute " However, we've been corrected on this one, as the AI is definitely much, much better than it was before. On the battlefield, we will hear screams, agony, fear and suffering, and the open world leads to a complete tactical immersion of the player.
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