ArmA II to launch over here in June

By Robert Purchese Published 29 April, 2009

Demo for PC wargame a definite.

505 Games is bringing ArmA II (Armed Assault II) to PCs in Europe on 26th June.

Developed by Bohemia, the game focuses on realistic, tactical warfare, where people paint their faces and dress up like trees. It's appealing.

The sequel treads a gamier path, adding "wound dressings" to patch-up downed comrades and a beefy storyline complete with narrative and NPC dialogue. But hardcore fans need not be worried: Bohemia has gone far from soppy.

Shuffle unseen to our hands-on impressions of ArmA II to find out why.

A spokesperson for 505 Games told us there definitely will be a demo, but that a timings are still to be worked out as the developer is busy finishing the game.

The publisher was unable to tell us what was happening with the PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of ArmA II, however, but is looking into the matter and we hope to know more soon.

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About Robert Purchese

Bertie is Eurogamer's Senior Staff Writer. When he's not hunting down news stories he's often found playing with his kids or gabbling about fantasy games and strange online worlds.

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  • JohnnyWashnGo #1 3 years ago

    505 Games lol

  • degville #2 3 years ago

    The console versions are still trying to render the first frame - Bohemia are aiming for 30 FPY (year). Considering how long it took them to produce the XBox version of opflash and their abilities to produce a performant engine I think we are in for a long wait.

  • syphaa #3 3 years ago

    Operation Flashpoint 2 is where its at for sim war fps.
    ARMA was buggy as hell and really unpolished and fugly.

    From what I have seen of OP2 it looks imense and a lot more polished.

  • Bitkari #4 3 years ago

    More importantly, when is the first patch out? ;)

  • George-Roper #5 3 years ago

    Won't be touching this with a bargepole until BI can prove to me that the fucking thing works properly. No way, not after Arma.
    Edited by 1 at 29/04/09 @ 13:11

  • grimmmy #6 3 years ago

    The thing that let Operation Flashpoint down (PC wise) was the amount of patches and repatches that were needed.

    Good game or not, if it happens again I'm avoiding it. Too much hassle if you ask me.

  • crozon #7 3 years ago

    i am 99% certain that this game will be buggy as shit when it comes out. still going to get it on day one. buggy or not i love the arma, its scope and sense on scale. the multiplayer games are epic.

  • Turrican #8 3 years ago

    ArmA was the first PC game I've bought in 15 years I had to abandon due to awful bugs and unplayable engine performance.

    They are going to have to heal a lot of wounds to be successful with this sequel. Bugs are often the one area where review sites gloss over, I presume because they are assured by the developer that the released game will have been patched. So even if Eurogamer et al give this a high score I'll be watching the ArmA forums like a hawk before even considering a purchase.

    A shame really beacause the concept is great, just the kind of thing that long-suffering PC gamers look for in these easy-access console gaming times...

  • ChaK #9 3 years ago

    played A LOT ofp, loved it, bought arma, played it quite a lot too, but it was painfully bugged, and had low perf, really.

    Waiting for demo on this one, sorry 505, but feels more like arma 1.5 than anything else.

    Hoping i'm wrong ;)