an UNDERRATED game ?

User Rating: 8 | Operation Flashpoint: Red River PC
When you play Operation Flaspoint: Red River, you're going to have "mixed reactions". The game is definitely not awful, it's totally enjoyable. Ofcourse there is a handful of shortcomings in this game but it's an interesting approach to the war/shooter genre of games.

The game takes the shooter genre to a more Realistic approach. It's definitely not action-packed and neither full with cinematic moments like its counterparts, Call Of Duty series or Battlefield. But the game focuses on how you would actually feel in a real US marines platoon.

The amount of realism in this game is quite high. The way you character behaves when taking a bullet, where you'd have to heal yourself after each and every bullet you take. This may become tedious to some players and fans of the fast-paced COD games but it gives you a highly realistic feeling of bring in a battlefield.

Also the team leading aspect is one of the main pros of the game. with the game being highly tactical, you will have to wisely choose how you would attack the enemy, wether you flank them or send your team to clear a building, or take defensive postures. This really becomes enjoyable as you progress through the game.

The worst thing in this game is that character I hated, Captain knox, I actually thought of uninstalling the game just to stop hearing open his mouth. Also the single player campaign is awfully short.

1] User interface: acceptable, internet video buffering and that stuff was pointless.

2] Graphics: character animations are great, textures are awful even at high resolutions, (I played it at 1366*768 and still the textures looked as if I was playing it at 800*600 or something). Although lighting was awesome, the lighting system that was used and how the sun looks, and also how the sun would be reflected by glass was really beautiful, thanks to the EGO engine. But it's really strange how would using the same engine that was used in Dirt series render the same gorgeous lighting effects but with that ugly textures. Phyiscs is nearly absent in characters, but the handling of the humvee was realistic.

3] Gameplay: enjoyable, but bot at all addictive.

4] Replay value: Less than 0 (immediately uninstalled)

BOTTOMLINE: there's a fine line separating Realism and boring, Red River is standing exactly over that line.