Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Gold Edition

by Codemasters

Product Features

• Tactical fighting game designed for new recruits to the Flashpoint cause
• Contains the original game, plus additional vehicles, weapons and missions
• Also includes Red Hammer The Soviet Campaign with 20 new fighting missions
• 64-page professionally produced Operation Flashpoint Prima Strategy Guide
• Enhanced multiplayer functionality and many additional code updates

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000065SQD
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: April 16, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #25,414 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best..., May 27, 2002

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Vitaly Mourzine (Twinsburg, OH USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Gold Edition (CD-ROM)

In my opinion this has to be one of the things that any gamer who even remotely enjoys action/first person shooters must own. This is the most in-depth game ever in this genre. You can fly, drive, snipe, lead, and any other thing any real soldier could. This is the best tactical sim. ever. Also the game has a very in depth story-line, which is one of the best, next to Dues-Ex. I enjoy almost any kind of game, but this is one of my top 3. Probably number 1. The designers are Czech, and they realistically modeled the speech. All of the Russian is pronounced correctly and the statements make sense. This is another game in which you must "stop n' drop" to have a chance in a fire-fight. Also most of the fire-fights go on at long distances, in which the enemy is barely in sight. The weapons are modeled realistically, and there is a huge variety. I always drop the M-16 and grab an ak (more stopping power). Wounds are realistically modeled. There is also a large variety of transports, tanks, copters, and a plane. With the gold upgrade, there are some new things and a new 20 mission campaign.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Game that the Army actually uses to train Soldiers, February 20, 2004

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OverTheMoon ([e-mail]) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Gold Edition (CD-ROM)

Operation Flashpoint started its life in the Czech Republic as a solider training Virtual Reality application and was soon taken over by Illusion Software and developed into a fully fledged real time war game. So why not see what sort of stuff the military have concocted to train their men? OF plays every bit as good as this type of realism suggests!

OF is simply - you are solider, here is what a war is like. Go play. The game is NOT like Medal of Honour or Doom. Even though it has first person/ third person modes and plays like a first person shooter it is more akin to MS Flight Sim in that everything is hyper realistic from the weapons, platoons, soldiers, divisions, operations manuals, commands and objectives. Most of the objects in the maps are destructible including the buildings and the forests! You can run down a field with 100 soldiers and take on a platoon of tank, air crafts and enemy soldiers and even get blown up in the process by a shell flying in your direction (shaking the earth and creating giant holes in the ground!). You can even get wounded and end up crawling along the ground needing a medic fast. Oh no! The medic is dead! Now what to do? You can issue fifty commands to your team. You can take on the role of any type of soldier (Engineer, Commander, Sniper, Machine Gunner, Pilot and much more) and you can do anything, like blow up a score of the enemy with some land mines you have planted while you hide in the bush watching it all happen (hehehe), snipe a whole platoon from behind a rock, climb into a tank and drive it around or into a jet or a helicopter or even the enemy bomber! This is the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City of army games. This game is so operationally realistic that it will blow your mind. To compare this game to Counter-Strike is a way off the mark. CS is just a small maps, with limited teams, and the objective is to frag your way into winning or plant the bomb or rescue the hostages. CS is a great multiplayer game and I play it a lot but it is certainly nothing like OF! And OF still has not been beat in terms of realism. The A.I in this game is amazing! In the map editor you can choose the A.I skill (six levels) of each individual enemy unit or soldier!

The big plus is the bonus map editor where you can create your own battles and objectives. There is nothing else like it and because of the `easy' map editor the lifespan of this game is infinitive. I have created missions in less than ten minutes that I can play all day long - and do!

The only downside to this game is that it has a massive learning curve and the graphics are not exactly ground breaking stuff, but they are still very good. You will have to play this game on and off for at least a week before you become familiar with everything and that is when the game really takes off. I mean you can literally run away from your platoon, steal a boat, go for a cruise, attack some non-mission critical platoon, steal their helicopter and come back later to see how your buddies are doing. Maybe they killed all the bad guys? Maybe they are all dead? Maybe some are dead and others are wounded and in need of treatment. Go get a medic! Revive your crew! Order them to board the helicopter you stole. Fly back to base. Get more gear. Fight on!

The bottom line is that once you have played all the missions learn the game editor. You can find the manual on-line and you will be up and running with it in a day. The editor is one of the easiest I have ever used and turns this game into a 6 star value for money experience like no other.

Operation Flashpoint is a landmark in game design. Do not underestimate it.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars WOW!!!, July 3, 2002

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Brent W (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis - Gold Edition (CD-ROM)

I've had this game for a while now and it's so good i can't stop playing it! Between the awsome graphics and the huge envirment with the ability to do what ever you whant, be careful beacuse you might think your in a real war! When i say do any thing you whant I mean anything. You can do anything from walking to driving a 5 ton truck to commanding an M1A1 to flying an A10. I've always been a fan of war games and I tell you this is buy far the best. ... No game i mean no game i worth buying over this game!