Operation Flashpoint (PC) > Reviews

Advantages: Excellent game with great graphics and sound
Disadvantages: None

I can safely say that this is the most addictive and also frustrating game that I have ever played. This game takes the role of a 1st person (or 3rd person) shooter. This game contains a mixture of both Project IGI and Rogue Spear, IGI for the stealth and Rogue Spear for the killing. But this game contains a new feature, this is that when on the battle field you may commandeer vehicles, these range from cars and trucks to tanks and choppers, you ... Read review

Advantages: Brilliant blend of genres, realism, good multiplayer
Disadvantages: graphics lacking in areas

Operation Flashpoint. This is a game that managed to revolutionise the entire PC shooting-sim market, and certainly for the better. Technically it’s third person too, but that’s the thing – Operation Flashpoint is the perfect marriage of multiple game genres. Want to fly a helicopter? You can. Maybe a plane? No problem. Or you could always just cruise around on one of the many ground vehicles, ranging from tanks to tractors. Operation Flashpoint marks ... Read review

Advantages: Tough, gritty, realistic, vast.
Disadvantages: No Information Minister! Can be slow, need a decent PC to run it.

...really starts pumping. There's more to Operation Flashpoint than just combat, although this is the major element. Stealth and cunning play a part in many missions, especially lone or Black Ops ones. Different skills are needed when sniping or evading capture than when involved in a mass engagement. You can also drive vehicles, which adds another degree of playability to the game, this variety keeping things exciting and preventing it from becoming ... Read review

Advantages: Superb graphics, and technical realism
Disadvantages: Not for fans of shoot-em-ups

...weren't up to scratch, and Operation Flashpoint is their riposte - a hugely ambitious, addictive, and, for the most part, hugely successful soldier sim. And special forces sims. And tank sim. And Plane sim. And Helicopter sim. And...... i'll stop there, you already know what i mean. Now forget about things like Op Flash's accurate recreations of the sight and scopes of each of the 30 firearms available to use, and the authentic models of land and ... Read review

Advantages: Detailed, Realistic,
Disadvantages: Bit slow because I need a new Graphics Card

I bought Operation Flashpoint in PC World on Friday 23rd June. This was the day of release, and I had been waiting for it for weeks! Thankfully it didn?t disappoint me. The first good thing when buying the game was I got a game for free with it ? 1NSANE ? although overall compared to Electronics Boutique it cost me £5 more (£35 in PC World, £30 in Electronics Boutique). It didn?t matter to me because I was getting Operation Flashpoint! If you ... Read review

Advantages: Sound, Gameplay
Disadvantages: Difficulty

...in this game. Thankfully in Operation Flashpoint you can employ tactics that reduce the ease and randomness of death. This game lets you control a single soldier, a whole troop, tank platoons and helicopter gunships in the same game, you can even do it in the same mission. I believe out of all the components of Operation Flashpoint, the gameplay is the best. It is a mixture of the open-ended and non-linear nature of completing your goals, excellent ... Read review

Advantages: Atmosphere and realism at its best.
Disadvantages: Good graphics card needed

...all very impressive. Everything about Operation Flashpoint : cold war crisis signals quality and you would have serious difficulties finding any real flaws with it (apart from the unbelievably long title). The game itself would be best described as a simulation of war. It is set in the year of 1985 in a period of cold war. Its you against the Russians as they attempt to invade a series of Nato held Islands in Eastern Europe. In Operation Flashpoint ... Read review

Advantages: Great graphics, and the realism is superb
Disadvantages: Quite difficult

Operation Flashpoint is a great game to get a taste of war, and should not be missed. Flashpoint comes with everything, changes in weather, detailed landscapes and all the weaponry you could ever ask for. Thoughout the game, you act as a soldier taking order to defeat the enemy (in this case the Russians) but as you progress though the game, you'll be able to command a squad of your own, this also includes mand vehicals and aircraft. This feature ... Read review

Advantages: Very realistic
Disadvantages: Save options

I first bought this game a month ago when I had a relatively low spec PC based on reviews I had read. Unfortunately it wouldn't run passed the first frame - very frustrating. Last week I decided it had been sitting in my game collection long enough for it to justify me buying something substantially quicker and game friendly. So with my new PC I installed Flashpoint......I wasn't disappointed. I am able to have all effects on the highest settings ... Read review

Advantages: Atmospheric, Mostly Good graphics, Smart AI and Great Mission Editor
Disadvantages: Environment graphics now look dated.

...but i'm not bad at Operation Flashpoint. Crawling through bushes over realistically bleeding dead bodies, with one Russian left to kill. Ah, there he is, on the ridge, I stand up take aim, and in Hollywood style it is me who dies instead. He was behind me the little ######. Unfrotunately that is a common sequence in Operation Flash... because even if you set it to easy it's a tough game. Getting to know the controls from the start is relatively easy, ... Read review

Advantages: in-depth gameplay
Disadvantages: badly animated

I admit that I did not like Flashpoint when it first came out, it was glitchy, badly animated and the story was not very well told. The first two points were pretty much ironed out by the 4th patch and you'll be pleased to know that this version of the game fixes them pretty much totally giving a much sharper feel to the game, and making it much more enjoyable and much more involving. The strength of this add-on however is the storyline, previously ... Read review

Advantages: Beautiful, detailed and quite frankly perfect
Disadvantages: you probs need a newish computer to run it

**Errrr what's it about?** Its NATO vs Soviet cold war 1st AND 3rd person military game that concentrates on tactics, controliong infantry, armour (like tanks) and flying things (helicopters and stuff) **is it any good?** This aint no blast-them to sh!t quake/unreal- you have to be calm, calculated and cold-blooded when you pull the trigger. Do it for a laugh or before assessing your situation and yo mamma will be receiving a telegram (aka ... Read review