the mother of all combat games

The above is a screen shot of Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising, to me this game is going to be one of the best games of all time full stop, Operation Flashpoint (the first one Cold War Crisis) was a very good game, way ahead of its time, and the one great thing that makes it stand out even today eight years on as a potentially brilliant game was its realism.



When you get shot you die, you don't die after walking into the line of machine gun fire and taking 50 bullets to the stomach before even falling like in Call of Duty, no you die like you would in real life.

Also you don't carry an excess of weaponry, you carry the same amount that a real person would be able to carry comfortably unlike; the excess amount of ammunition you could carry in any other combat shooting game.

Operation Flashpoint Resistance (an add on to Cold War Crisis) you lead a small resistance group against a large Soviet army, this one is twice as a realistic and twice as hard, completing the game is actually a difficult task and requires a lot of patience.

For instance having to wait to ambush a convoy, but wait ten minutes in real time, just standing there!



Flashpoint features dozens of realistic guns, vehicles and aircraft combat, it provided vehicle realism very close to dedicated flight and tank sims, and it combined all of these elements and accurately simulated the complex relationships between these elements in war.

Now that was 2001, imagine with graphics better then Battlefield 2 and with a faster game engine, along with the realism of Cold War Crisis, yes Flashpoint is coming back, and hopefully with a vengeance.