A lot Of Bugs,But Apart From That.Its A Great Game With Features You Havent Seen In Any Other First Person Shooter.

User Rating: 7 | Operation Flashpoint: Red River X360
This game isnt the same as the other First Person Shooter you see like Call Of Duty or any other action shooter,you see at first you are not gonna be please with what this game has to offer,because of the fact that there is too much trying to be feed to fast.and leaves no such the game starts normal like any other FPS,you have a gun and a few members from your team,but there is a downside until the middle of the story campaign but gets better from there till the end of the main story.
You start from a military base in Tajikistan, you will do training and then, you will be sent to do missions.there is no real story for this game I mean not that huge story like we see in COD series,in the game you will only be on missions,only in the mountain side and you have to raid the villages and keep on going from village to village and invade critical areas on the region and defend it. Basically that is all there is to on this game.So im not really saying the story is bad but rather this is a unique Shooter game that puts you on the real side of war and how it is to be in the military and again the real side of war can be pretty boring unlike some few FPS games that show otherwise,but hey its as real as it gets.the real side of war isnt fun at all.
In the game you dont have a radar to detect the enemies but you have a bar on the top of the screen that shows you the locations of them,and from there you can detect the enemies.If you are given a solid arrow up there it means the enemy is at sight and if you search for them you will be able to find them and kill em.However if there is a cloud of red on your map it means the enemy is hiding there and you can find them by aiming at them, at this point you can tell your team mates to start firing at that location.By keeping the enemies suppressed you will have more time to keep your ground and this is how its done.you see this game isnt the normal First Person Shooter,its rather more of a strategic game than shooting around and killing everyone.You need to know what you are doing in this game.You have a 3 member team, each member with specific duty such as a rifleman and so on.
One thing I really hated in this game was that after each time you get shot first you need to take cover like any other game,then you need to do 2 things,first you need to hold a button for like lets say 5 to 6 seconds to stop the bleeding then again you have to hold that button for another 10 sec.To heal completely.that is not all you also have to heal up your enemies or just tell your team mates to heal the injured and this gets really annoying and bad in between the heavy firing between you and the enemies.It would have been easier if you could just heal up completely by the first 5 seconds you hold the button.
As you finish each level,depending on how good you did the that level,you are given a medal ,either bronze ,silver or gold.Bronze worth 1 point,silver 2 points and gold 3 points.You can use the points to upgrade your abilities such as sprinting ability or for example the tactical ability and a lot more.After you did so,you can clearly see the effect on each level after you upgraded.Like at first few levels you will see that you cant even shoot a moving target, without aiming at them,and also you cant even run fast enough to survive.Its pretty fun having to upgrade,and look at the effect on the ground.
Also as you progress in the main story you will unlock new weapons that you can choose as your first and second weapons to carry with your self.After 5 or 6 missions, you will get sniper aimer on your rifle which works perfectly and it isnt bad anymore and you will enjoy the game from this point till the end of the campaign mode.
Another thing I disliked on this game was that in order to create a war like situation,there developers have recorded voices such as "we are under fire",or like"they are on to us" and a lot of other sentences.The bad part is that it keeps on looping and repeating with the same voices over and over again.It gets pretty annoying hearing this.one things you can do is to change the volume of the voices from the option tab.
The graphics in operation Flashpoint Red River is good altogether.You see, the levels are not limited to a few rooms or tracks but rather it has a big scale of levels you have never seen before ,and almost all the levels are set in the mountainside.You can see the great terrains they have used and created .The great atmosphere looks amazing,sun light is pretty amazing too,but the shadows created are very bad in my opinion,specially the shadows on the ground are very bad.
The textures are more or less good as we see it specially the textures and mapping on the characters but since there are a lot of bugs in the game you will sometimes see a few textures here and there, unloaded and pixels like.
The amount of bugs in the game is a lot,I mean anywhere you look you can find a few bugs such weapons on the air instead of being on the ground,bodies not well formed on the ground but rather half a meter on the air,sometimes after your team is dead you will see them again quickly by your side,but sometimes they will never comeback for some reason.Inside building structure seems to be the same all the time almost feels like you have been to that certain location once,which is awful.The animating of characters is also bad.Lips barley open up for the voices to feel perfect,there is also a lot of other bad animations like the choppers and the animation you have to see like in a cutscene which there is non for you to see here.
My favorite part of the game would have to be you having the ability to control every move of your team mates if you hold one of the shoulder buttons you will see a circle formed in front of you which you can use as a cursor to tell your team mates to do some actions like move them to another location,or move each one of them to a different location and then you can tell them to fire at another location and lot of other things you can do with your team mates.Plus this feature is definitely unique because first of all it is simple to use and secondly you can do a lot of different combinations of movements in the strategic domain.
I did enjoy the game although there was seriously a lot of bugs hanging in the game,but there was also dozens of new features we couldnt have seen in any other FPS game.It was very good to see those features and the creativity for the game.
7 out of 10.