It's worth noting that when you do successfully pull off a well thought-out maneuver, you'll feel incredibly fulfilled.13 Conclusion Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Summary It can be cumbersome but, most importantly, it gets the job done giving an almost strategy element to proceedings. Hitting the R1 button brings up a radial menu which can be used to assign troop layout and position. Given the size of the maps - and the layout of opposing forces - you'll need to work carefully with your four man squad to effectively take them out. While everything looks nice from a distance, closing in on plants and shrubbery is far from a visual treat, with jagged, low textures sticking out like a sore thumb against generally pretty background vistas. It doesn't help that the maps are so graphically sparse also. Running the length of the map to the next objective may be the reality of real life military action - but it quickly becomes tiresome here. While the back of the game's box uses the "35 mile draw distance" as a selling point - you'll come to wish it weren't so.
The scale is one of Flashpoint's down-points. The single-player campaign is set across 11 blisteringly large maps, whereby objectives will have you trekking the landscape and earning your worth in a much greater scale of battle. A flashy introduction movie sets the scene, drawing on real-life military conflicts to develop a near future showdown. You're a part of the US army, taking on the Chinese in an effort to free Russia. Operation Flashpoint puts you in the shoes of one man in a four-person squadron. This is real life, and real life is frighteningly difficult. Having been cleansed by the belief that all soldiers have regenerating health for years, it's quite frightening to turn around, see an enemy and watch the screen fade to black. Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is frightening from a number of angles. Be assured though, if it's realism you seek, Operation Flashpoint will gratefully satisfy your military needs. But next to the brash set-pieces of Infinity Ward's Modern Warfare, it feels sterile without the smoke and mirrors. As a thoroughly realistic military shooter, it achieves everything it sets out to achieve.
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