Second choice game which has stead me fast, excellent but flawed!

User Rating: 7.2 | Operation Flashpoint: Elite XBOX
By hood-of-robin | Review Date:
i got the game as a swap for WRC 2005 because it went wrong. I knew the game had only the graphical power of the original Ghost Recon but i also knew that you could drive, fly and command troops, also the mission editor made me get the game. i would have got the game anyway but the swap was perfect for me.

the storyline was perfect in everyway, a crazed russian general with ambitions to own a small NATO force on a made-up island and only that little force and resistances units to fight them back. the gameplay is excellent and well thought out like it was a Ghost recon game or Medal of Honour.

The great thing is that it is a transition in periods so you have old weapons with the up-to-date weapons, vehicles which should have been put out to pasture ages ago with the lastest and greastest. the control of Helicopter and tanks were perfect but the trucks/jeeps/cars control were bad. the planes are useless and should have had a proper control system.

the infantry controls seemed clumsy and should have used a MOH control style but the whole seeing the weapons is a thing that is now always used, but the detail of the weapons is great, but would have been greater if better graphics were used. the command controls were also hard to use but also easy when used in map mode which is brilliant because you see terrain.

mission editor does add longevity and interesting scenarios like police Vs russian special forces.

things they should learn:
Real flight controls for planes
real infantry controls
new commands and controls
more NATO armies

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