Hands down the best shooter of its time. Not being biased, just being truthful. For milsim fans and serious gamers only!
When i first saw OFP i didnt want to play it, it didnt look like anything spectacular. But i didnt have the computer to play anything better, and my crappy pc just met the system requirements (64mb integrated graphics, 512mb ram...) So i tried it out. Almost instantly i fell in love with the game. The first thing that surprised me was the Mission editor, and then the gameplay. It was abnormally realistic. You could operate attack helicopters, transports, jets, tanks, humvees, combined them together and you get a war experience like never before.
Sooner than i expected i found a modding community. And a big one. After playing with all the mods and addons available the fun never seemed to end.
When Arma1 was announced i could only lust to experience it as my old system was still incapable of playing it. When i finally built a new computer 3 years ago i tried Arma1. Amazing. Graphics, storyline everything had improved.
Then Arma 2 came out. It was a dream come true, Modern vehicles and equipment, fantastic jaw dropping visuals combined with the most intense and realistic military sim experience you could ever want from a game. Ever since OFP i have failed to keep any other game on my hard drive than the Bohemia OFP/Arma series.
When Operation Arrowhead came out, it was just all the same, simply new features to make you want to keep playing. I can safely say that until the next release, i will never delete Arma 2 from my computer, in fact i may never delete it.
Many people that try to play these series fail to see the beauty or even understand it. They begin to classify features of the game as bugs when in fact they arent bugs but rather part of the simulation. Many of these players come from the COD or BF franchize and so have trouble adapting to the amount of realism. Their minds are programmed to run at blazing speed guns blazing with 5000 rounds of ammo unlimited health and 10,000 kills.
What makes arma 2 truly fun, is its immersion and realism. The amount of brain power it takes to play this game is overwhelming for some. Multiplayer only makes the game better. Apply modern-day real life tactics as you would on the battlefield into the game with friends in Coop or All out warfare.
My Definition for Bohemia's games is simple: Its an engine dedicated to portray and simulate most battlefield scenarios and provide a realistic combat environment for the average civilian without having to join the military.
If you all don't know, Bohemia Interactive also designs military simulations for real military organizations used by both the US Army, US Marine Corps, Navy, British Ministry of Defense, Australian Army, French....
Its called Virtual Battle Space, and its jammed packed with features useful in training and prepairing soldiers for real life combat situations and scenarios. Note: This does not mean if you join the army you will be trained on this, no it simply means, its used in other sections of the military, its not a general training tool.
Just google VBS2 to find out more. If you dont want to pay 2000$ plus for it then buy Arma 2 and Combined Operations for a reasonable price of 50 bux.