Product Description
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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
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 of different disciplines, vehicles
and equipment for players to utilize, and simulates an immense
conflict between two advanced forces. The player’s
journey is tied into a believable and dramatic storyline set in a
vast and incredibly detailed environment.
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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 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.
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Realistic Marine field combat.
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Loads of weapons & vehicles.
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Careful attack planning is key.
View larger ( https://images-na.ssl-images-.com/images/G/01/videogames/detail-page/ofpdr.03.lg.jpg ). 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 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 cl 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
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
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 ed 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 ly 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.
- 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 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..