PS3 Review – Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising
The game gives you a lot of tactical choice, as well. You have full control of your squad mates, including telling them where to go, when to stop, and what to attack. It is a lot of fun to send them in for a diversion while you slip in from another area to take out more enemies. There are many possibilities to choose from.
Operation Flashpoint’s multiplayer is a blast. It has a lot of the elements that you have come to like in many shooters, and while it doesn’t do anything to revolutionize the genre, it doesn’t do anything wrong. The multiplayer impressively adheres to the single player campaign’s realism and map size.
When online, the numbers aren’t that high though. It is only 4 vs. 4. Each of 8 players has 3 A.I. squadmates that they control during the match, for a maximum total of 24 characters on screen at once, but only 8 of them are actual human players. Additionally, there are class choices to make before your character spawns within the multiplayer matches.
Besides just the normal multiplayer matches, there are also co-op features as well. Up to 4 people can play the game at once, including yourself. The additional characters will take the place of the squadmates that you typically have within a single player session.
Graphically, the game is pretty impressive when you take into account the sheer size of the maps, along with all of the things going on at once. It’s only natural that a shooter with a smaller map and less going on will look better. But seeing as how this game focuses on realism and size, the graphics do take a hit.
All in all, this is probably one of the most realistic shooting titles that has been released on the PlayStation. The level of detail that has been put into the game by Codemasters is certainly impressive. The sad thing is that this game has been overshadowed by several other shooters. This game is worth a look by any shooting fan. While it is not perfect, it is a lot of fun and a great experience overall.
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11 Responses to “PS3 Review – Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising”
this is more realistic than American Army?
It must be noted that the difficulty in this game is BRUTAL no matter which difficulty you choose in the beginning. If you enjoy Demon Soul’s BRUTAL, and you enjoy shooters, then you should have a blast with this.
I’m very intrigued now, so is this title really worth the purchase? I love realism & a good challenge
Had this, found it pretty intense at times but in the end it was too hardcore for its own good, theres stages where you just have to do things in a fixed way in order to progress, you’d find that you’d have to start the whole mission again from scratch if you made a wrong judgement during the mission which is extremely frustrating. Also, most missions are timed so you gotta keep moving – this is pretty hardcore as it gets, if you’re up for the challenge go for it, if not, well you’ve been warned! Def worth a rental first given the chance!
~funkyellowmonkey(ps3 id)~
Even though I don’t usually care for war shooters, I’m kind of interested in this one because of the whole realism aspect. I don’t care much for commanding a squad though, that stuff never seems to work very well. But at least it’s not a silly arcade shooter like all the rest.
@matthew
I won’t be getting this then also you might not come back but matt i would recommend you don’t put details such as your name and surname onto the internet as certain people can use this information to gain stuff like your bank details it’s one of the reasons people have usernames.
@Timewarp
You know he’s not the only Matthew Whitney in the world. Such a comment shows how paranoid you are of the Internet
Xael – he may be paranoid but sometimes that’s better than the alternative. I know it seems silly in this day and age though…I still have a hard time convincing my parents that it’s safe to send personal information over the internet (to secure sites of course). Is there a risk?? Yes, but since every company keeps all of their account holders info. on a computer somewhere anyway there is almost as much of a risk of info. being stolen if you don’t personally send it.
Anyway, this review has convinced me that I’ll at least have to give this game a try. Maybe it will be too difficult but I like the sound of realism.
@giese
It’s silly anywhere, anytime. It’s understandable your parents are cautious, they didn’t grow up with internet. How is knowing my full name going to net somebody my bank account info? If there’s someone that can(who would peruse psls for identity theft opportunities?) hack into your bank account info from JUST your name, you probably aren’t safe posting anywhere for any reason.
I do agree that the review convinced me to try this out though lol, I don’t even particularly like squad shooters, but the realism sounds really interesting.
Good review a 4 out of 5 hmm I may have to rent this one.
You know what guys, imo i wouldn’t characterize this game as ‘hard’. Using that adj. makes you think that its difficultly lies in its enemy ai or the mission objectives. When, like i said, imo the difficulty is in the mechanics and the gameplay. While you will, or at least should, get fast at issuing orders often its never fast enough and you lose your ability to ‘fight’ b/c of the on;screen prompts. Another gameplay mechanic that can become incredibly frustrating is the weapon selection menu and even more so, the actual readying of a weapon. Missile or rocket launchers are always reloaded whenever they are brought out- even if you just loaded it, put it away for 1 sec and then brought it back out. And I’m not even gonna tell you how much the game world’s sense of realism affected the reloading time for these weapons. I coulda cooked a omlette, come back and still have been reloading. That being said, the game does have an incredible sense of emersion and tension. You really want to complete the missions as best outlined by your commanders and that lends the game a real air of authenticity that you just can’t find often in a console shooter. That and 19 silver trophies + 5gold can either just barely or not quite overcome those glaring mechanics that kept this game from being perfect.