Operation Flashpoint Upgrade: Red Hammer

by Codemasters

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005Y4PU
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: January 30, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #43,306 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

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Operation Flashpoint: Gold Upgrade is for gamers who are already part of the Flashpoint Elite and own the original game. The upgrade pack contains upgrades one through three, with all the additional vehicles, weapons, and missions. Plus, get Red Hammer: The Soviet Campaign, with 20 new missions fighting as Dmitri Lukin, ex-Sptsnaz operative, in this sister story line to Cold War crisis. A 64-page professionally produced Operation Flashpoint Prima Strategy Guide is also included.

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Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Same game, new missions., February 4, 2002

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Jerome Cabilan "ronolo" (Cedar Hill, Texas USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operation Flashpoint Upgrade: Red Hammer (CD-ROM)

If you enjoyed the original Operation Flashpoint, I would recommend this expansion. The Gold edition requires the original Operation Flashpoint to play. The Gold expansion simply gives you up to 20 more missions in the campaign. This however would be a time in which you are on the Russian side of the war. It also, gives you additional single missions which were 1 time only missions. The game play and controls stay the same. The units and vehicles are all basically the same, nothing new here. The only difference is that you will be using Russian units. As for landscape, in addition to the original 3 islands. There is a 4th island in there somewhere that we fight on. I have'nt gotten around to that point yet, but I am looking forward to it. I will update this later, in case I am mistaken. Although I just started playing the Russian missions recently, I can already tell this will be a great game.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you like the game already this is what you need., May 22, 2002

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L. Blasiman (Canton, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operation Flashpoint Upgrade: Red Hammer (CD-ROM)

I liked this because it added some new equipment and vehicles that made it more fun. For one thing the game is set in 1985, and the weapons and equipment are what you would expect: boring compared to today's image of high-tech firepower. The upgrade adds just that, a number of impressive weapons and vehicles but still fitting to the time setting. Unfortunetly much of this is available to you only in the mission editor.

The Russians were always made to be the bad guys. Yet the idea of putting the player on the other side is a interesting one and works well. It is still the same game, just palyed with charactors, vehicles and weapons that make it distinct. I enjoyed running around fighting with guys OTHER than Americans for once.

Yet beyond adding some new toys and new missions, it is still the same game and whatever you didn't like is still there. Dull sound and rough graphics with only 1 save are just as much a pain for the Soviets as it was for the US. Something to polish the game further would have gone a long way to really making it enjoyable.

However if you liked OpFlash, this is what you need.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Play as the Russians, May 31, 2002

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C. Minnick "Life is cartoons and sports. Eve... (Ames, IA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Operation Flashpoint Upgrade: Red Hammer (CD-ROM)

This is a great add-on to Flashpoint. While Flashpoint is reall just another FPS, this does excel in many areas. gameplay is great, mission design is very solid, the AI does change from mission to mission, the more you know about real military tactics, the better you can do in this game, etc. And it patches OFP, which is always a good thing.
One note, though, this doesn't start out easy like OFP. You are expected to be a veteran OFP player.