Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising

by Codemasters

Product Features

• Multiplayer options that include co-op gameplay as well as huge multiplayer skirmishes online via Games for Windows LIVE.
• Play as Infantry soldier, tank commander, helicopter pilot and Special Forces in battles featuring unparalleled levels of realism and variety of military forces, equipment, weapons and tactics.
• Open world gameplay that is true to life and filled with environments that you are free to enter and explore, vehicles to commandeer and weapons and ammunition to scavenge.
• AI tactics developed out of actual US training manuals ensuring intelligent responses to tactics in changing circumstances and a sense of self-preservation.
• Utilize more than 70 real-life weapons supporting realistic ballistic system and more than 50 land, air and sea vehicles.

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009P50V
• Item Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Media: DVD-ROM
• Release Date: October 6, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,153 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Platform: PC

Amazon.com Product Description

Taking gamers as close to war as they'll ever want to get, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is the much anticipated return of the genre-defining military conflict simulator. Set to deliver the total combat experience, Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will challenge players to survive the chaos and rapidly evolving situations of modern warfare in a new contemporary theater. Realistic Marine field combat. View larger. Loads of weapons & vehicles. View larger. Careful attack planning is key. View larger. Players will experience the intensity, diversity and claustrophobia of a modern conflict from the unique perspectives of an infantry marine, a helicopter pilot, a Special Forces officer or a tank commander, each engaged against the full force of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) on a scale never previously experienced in a military action title. Story The 220-square-kilometer island of Skira, located off the eastern coast of Russia, north of Japan, is an oil-rich Russian-controlled island that stands on the brink of war. An airborne division of the PLA lands to claim the island as the sovereign possession of the People’s Republic. Russia turns to the US for support aid and they’re quick to respond. Sending in the USS Iwo Jima, an expeditionary force of US Marines launch an assault on the strung out, but dug-in Chinese force. Can the situation be defused before this flashpoint turns white hot and an all-out global war between the superpowers erupts? Gameplay Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is an open-world tactical shooter designed to realistically represent modern infantry combat. In it players will utilize their command menu to dole out instructions to their unit. These commands include directives like ordering them to stay put, to follow you, to fire at will or only after your lead, and to assemble into various tactical formations. With a wealth of weapons and vehicles available, engagements can play out very differently depending on tactics and the pros and cons of chosen armaments. The game features set missions as well as quick fight, fire team engagement and several multiplayer modes for varied gameplay. Another prominent and realistic gameplay consideration is its extensive and persistent damage model. This relates both to the environment and the soldiers under player's command in that buildings destroyed, stay destroyed and casualties can be inflicted immediately with a single bullet or develop from wounds not tended to. Key Features Open-World Gameplay - Gameplay is completely open and objectives are assigned as they would be in real life. In addition, all building can be entered, all vehicles commandeered and weapons and ammunition scavenged. Artificial Intelligence - AI tactics are developed out of actual US training manuals ensuring intelligent responses to tactics in changing circumstances and a sense of self-preservation. Extensive List of Weapons and Vehicles - Utilize more than 70 real-life weapons supporting realistic ballistic system and more than 50 land, air and sea vehicles. Varied Difficulty Levels - Choose from difficulty levels which either keep you apprised via heads-up-display of crucial info like enemy units sighted and ammo remaining, or require you to keep track of these on your own. Advanced Visual Effects - Experience realistic fire, dust and smoke effects that last for minutes instead of seconds. Multiplayer Options - Enjoy co-op gameplay options, as well as a huge multiplayer battles online via Games for Windows LIVE. Online Support In addition to the extensive single player campaign, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising will feature an in-depth multiplayer gameplay options. Players will enjoy co-op play that will enable squads of players to work tactically through the intense campaign together, while online via Windows LIVE players can partake of huge multiplayer matches. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is set to deliver the most accessible, engaging and visceral sandbox shooter yet seen and it’s coming in summer 2009 to your PC.

Product Description

Experience the intensity, diversity and claustrophobia of realistic modern warfare from the unique perspective of Infantry Marine, Helicopter Pilot, Special Forces and Tank Commander engaged against the full force of the Chinese military on a scale never previously experienced in video games. Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising takes players into the most realistic war game experience they’ll have ever encountered. It provides an unparalleled scope of different military disciplines, vehicles and equipment for players to utilize, and simulates an immense conflict between two advanced military forces. The player’s journey is tied into a believable and dramatic storyline set in a vast and incredibly detailed environment.

Customer Reviews

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42 of 49 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars A disappointment, October 12, 2009

By 

Arvestl Lars "student26" (sweden) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (DVD-ROM)

I had great expectations on this game. I loved the original Flashpoint, but this just doesn't cut it.
I'll keep myself real short. This game is not a 5-star game like its predecesor, because:

1. It's just not as exciting as FP1. You don't feel as much in controll and your AI co-players are stupid. I dont know if its because of bugs but often they'll end up just about anywhere when given the orders to form different formations, and when they end up going in front of you into the killing fields and not taking cover and getting killed, well then it becomes annoying.

2. Your AI co-players will spot enemies 400 meters away while you will unlikely spot any farther away than 50 (unless your co-players hadn't spotted them first or the enemy fired at you, which they will long before you would have noticed them).

3. Its difficult. Alot of missions are hard for the sake of being hard. Often giving orders and using tactics doesnt make any difference. You might be placed 300 meters away from your enemy who is lined up behind fortifications with machineguns. Perhaps you can flank them but that would take like 20 minutes, and although realism is often positive it just becomes tedious keeping your forward-movement key pressed for that long while sitting back in your chair. Videogames are not real life and never will be.
Anyway, your only choice, (if you dont have art-support, which is awsome to watch) is to lie there and shoot back. If you dont want to lie there forever waiting for your teammates to use up all their ammo, you better start killing. In FP1 your teammates were good shots. Not here.

4. Lots of bugs.

5. Driving vehicles SUCK. you're locked at looking straight ahead and cant use the mouse to free-view! And the stearing is so sensitive that any sudden turn will make your vehicle spin. Didn't the creators test-play this game before it was released???

6. Shooting the assultrifles is boring and thats the kind of weapon you'll use most of the time. It's difficult to hit, and I guess thats positive (its not a shoot-em-up game) but if it was "fun hard" it wouldve been great! but its just hard, and boring. the enemy AI usually just stand around doing nothing, even when they fire and get fired upon.

7. All missions are timed which forces you to rush decisions instead of planning and playing safe, which I prefer. Very stressfull.

8. Sometimes checkpoints are too far between, and the reason I think people would want to have them closer together is not just because it takes time to replay, it's because its pretty BORING to replay alot of parts, which is basically why I give this game only 3 stars.

ps. Battlesounds are REALLY good.

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a True Sequel to Operation Flashpoint, October 19, 2009

By 

Strick1226 (NC, USA) - See all my reviews

= Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (DVD-ROM)

Pro's:
--Nice opening cinematic providing background of events leading up to game's present day
--Sounds of incoming fire is amazing

--Con's:
--Several timed missions
--Unable to change weapon loadout in single player (so far as I can tell)
--Relatively short
--Very small range of mission types (nearly all assault)

I've played the original Operation Flashpoint from Bohemia Interactive. Many, many times over. Far from perfect upon its initial release, it became much more playable over a few years of patches by the developer, and remains a favorite of hardcore PC wargame players.

This is not an Operation Flashpoint sequel.

The original game had very few timed missions, and massively large mission maps--which you usually could take advantage of, if you wished to do so. It truly was more of a "sandbox" game, allowing you to complete missions the way you saw fit. Go the looooooooong way around a forest to avoid patrols? OK. Instead of blowing up unattended tanks with demo charges, instead use one of the tanks to destroy the others, and the soliders and base nearby? Sure, if that's how you want to do it! Incredible.

The fact that this game has checkpoints should tell you all you need to know. It's a shooter primarily aimed at the more-casual console gamer, and it shows.

Fallen squadmates automatically come back to life when reaching major checkpoints. The game holds your hand, leading you from one checkpoint to the next, to each objective. Want to take a different route? Too bad--on most missions there's a limited amount of time before you must complete objectives, forcing you to run mad dashes directly into the hail of enemy fire. There's not much time for tactical planning and approach.

I didn't seem to be able to find a way to change weapon loadout, even as I neared the end of the game. Why you are assigned short-barreled close-quarters M4's for 99.9% outdoor environments is both puzzling and frustrating.

The grass present in most areas in realistically overgrown, given the rural setting, but the enemy seems incredibly adept at seeing you long before you can see them.

The accuracy of your squadmates is disconcerting; they also never seem to run out of ammo as quickly as you do.

I very much was looking forward to this game, but must say it's quite a disappointment. Armed Assault 2, though quite buggy, seems to be a more accurate spiritual successor to the original Operation Flashpoint.

Dragon Rising probably will be more fun playing through the campaign with a buddy or two, as the game supports. But multiplayer is pretty much unusable, with the lack of dedicated servers (!) and maps.

Back to Operation Flashpoint 1. :/

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Much worser than OFP, October 17, 2009

By 

To be or Not To Be (New Jersey) - See all my reviews

= Fun:2.0 out of 5 stars 

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This review is from: Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising (DVD-ROM)

I just started playing this game today and just finish the first mission, which took me about an hour to complete both the main and side missions. I did not bother checking out the multiplayer because I heard that there's no servers and if you do get into one, bunch of people get disconnected. Anyway, here's what I don't like and what I like:

I like the main menu music. I like the graphics in this one compare to OFP. I like the combat sounds too. Picking the weapon you want is easier than OFP by pushing the numbers above your QWERTY keys. AI's are much smarter, making the game more realistic. They will try to outflank you. They will take cover behind trees, rocks, and buildings. Oh yeah, you can swim in this game. In the first OFP, you drown in the water. That's about it.

Now here's what I don't like:
1) Its more complicated to control your squad. Have to cycle through bunch of menus to get the right command I want.
2) As mention with other reviews, no free look when driving. I can't look to my right or left or behind me.
3) No tutorial or training missions. If you are brand new to the game, don't you want to learn how to fight and move and all the other goodies before going to combat?
4) Default key assignments are ridiculous. Push F1 to use binocular? Then you have to hold the right mouse button to use it. I don't think you can even zoom with it. I pushed every button on my keyboard to see if I can zoom, but nope.
5) No ability to lean left or right, which is huge deal when peaking or shooting around corners.
6) If you get into a vehicle first, your squad may sometime go in with you without you having to give them an order. I'm like, "did i order you to get in my vehicle?"
7) You are stuck with the weapon you have before starting the mission! I like the option of choosing different weapons before starting the mission, but apparently it won't let you.
8) When changing weapon, it takes forever for your guy to get that weapon out, especially when you take your rocket launcher out. If you need to get your rifle back out after switching, forget about it. Your dumb guy wants to put a rocket into the launcher first before getting to your other weapon.
9) It is always a 4 man team. Unlike the first OFP where you can control as many as 12 men. However, you are always the team leader from the very first mission.
10) Low lack of vehicles to get into. You are mostly running all over the place.
11) Mission editor sucks b/c there's no preview for it.

I think the main thing the frustrates me the most is giving commands to your squad. This is truly a waste of my $37! Why there's no CD-key? I bought this game b/c I thought I will need a CD-key to play online. APPARENTLY NOT! I bet this game is already free for download on file-sharing programs and you can play online without any CD-key check. Of course, the multiplayer is currently in disarray and they are currently making a patch for this game.

I don't know if future patches to this game will make gaming experience better. They tend to make it better, but I still don't want to cycle through bunch of menus to give orders to my squad. I remember installing patches one by one for OFP and that took forever. You have to install the very first patch to install the most recent patch. You probably will have to do that too for this game as well.

In summary, don't buy this game. Its very disappointing and it doesn't even come close to Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis or OFP Resistance. If they implement the old OFP features with the awesome graphics and sounds, this game would of been the best Operation Flashpoint ever to be made.

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