Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising Comments by Kristan Reed
Chasing dreams.
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PearOfAnguish
18/09/08 @ 10:50
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So no in-game screenshots yet?
Will it still support mods? That was a huge plus for OpFlash and ArmA.
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FP1 was one of the most amazing games I've ever played. It took a long time to get into the fearsome difficulty level, but once you started to learn patience and planning it reaped rewards. It still makes games like COD look like toy town war.
On the other hand the multiplayer was one of the most awesome experiences, especially the helicopter missions where you all piled into a chopper and flew around the island picking off enemies. Crazy helicopter crashes, people being left behind and loads of other madcap fun was to be had. But Codies are not doing well at the moment, Toca has been ruined, Colin Mcrea's last outing was disappointing, Overlord is embarrassing and Turning point was a missed opportunity. They had better come up with something special for this. |
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groovychainsaw
18/09/08 @ 10:59
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Pear, reads the article - all your questions are answered... /sigh. Anyway, sounds good, looks potentially great. I for one, am hoping for a really good console adaptation, but sadly i don't think its going to happen, the scale looks too great for consoles. I don't think I've got the funds to get my pc up to speed really...
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"But Codies are not doing well at the moment, Toca has been ruined, Colin Mcrea's last outing was disappointing, Overlord is embarrassing and Turning point was a missed opportunity. They had better come up with something special for this."
Turning Point, granted. But the others...you're well wide of the mark. |
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There are a great deal of people who are very upset about Toca and Colin Mcrea, just read the forums on the racing websites.
Toca was one of the best racing games out there and has been watered down consistently to encourage casual gamer sales and more american customers. I'm not a strategy fan so I don't like Overlord but from people who do play them, it's a pretty poor game. But it's all opinion. I've invested a great of money in Codemasters and they deliver less and less every year. |
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i thought overlord was great until i got to one of the first bosses. had to direct one type of imp get them to stay somewhere, direct the other type, get them to attack, and fend off some melee attacks from goblins or something. the controls were just too fiddly and gave up from there. mind you it cost me £6 off fleabay so no real disaster
i thought colin mcrae dirt was excellent, although certain vehicles/events were obviously included to try and get some US sales |
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I agree that Grid was ace until you realised that there was no split screen and the multiplayer was stupidly limited. I love Touring Cars and there were two different cars and about 5 tracks to play online. No DTM was the icing on the stupid cake. It's spread too thinly and they have abandoned the people that got them to where they are.
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If you are after in-game screens of the game, you can find some on our Codemasters OFP2 Flickr Page:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/codemasters... There is also an OFP2 page on Facebook that is kept very up to date with all the latest news and images: http://www.new.facebook.com/pages/Operat... |
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Sounds like a very ambitious and realistic game but one better suited to the PC. Thus if I buy the game (I loved the original) then I'll definitely buy it for that platform rather than buy a cutdown version because that's what the console versions sound like they'll be. This is the kind of game that works better on a PC IMO. I plan on buying a new quad-core SLI graphics PC with 4 GB of memory later on in the year or early next as I usually do when the consoles start to show their age and PC games start leaving them behind, if not in terms of gameplay then certainly technically/visually.
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RustyBullet
18/09/08 @ 11:50
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They had this on Player on UKGold last Sunday and i have to say i think its looking bloody good.
Screen shots dont do it any justice in motion it looked sweet. |
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Magic Panda
18/09/08 @ 12:12
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One to watch but not get hopes up about.
The original is a fine game, only second to Stalker in terms of immersion and atmosphere. |
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jaywalker3010
18/09/08 @ 12:14
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@haowan
and you wonder why you dont get many people making official comments when you happily berate someone who tries to give the slightest bit of information. As for calling him a `Shill` surely the `_CM` at the end of his name kinda gives it away where he works,not to mention his profile showing he's posted almost exclusively on CM products If these are NOT screenshots then they have just opened themselves up to a seriously large world of PR pain, but if they ARE then you've just made yourself look a complete tool :)
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"The well-documented souring of relations between original developer Bohemia Interactive and Codies certainly didn't help"
Indulge us perhaps because in every OFP2 or ArmA(2) article it's explained not at all or very vague. Hopefully they can get this right, more players wouldn't have hurt though. This setting and maybe even the realistic gameplay for an MMOFPS must be insta-win. |
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jaywalker3010
18/09/08 @ 12:26
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@haowan
Then happily flame away if ya proven right :)
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@ haowan
The majority of the images used in the article are target renders that were generated using in-game assets. Since then actual current in-game screens have been released, and the latest images uploaded to our Flickr channel http://www.flickr.com/photos/codemasters/ are in-game shots of the game in its present state. As for me being a corporate shill, I'm a Codemasters employee and am the community liaison officer for action titles.
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PearOfAnguish
18/09/08 @ 12:44
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Helios, show us some pics with the UI visible then, might find it easier to believe they are in-game shots.
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groovychainsaw
18/09/08 @ 12:48
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Helios, going by the label on your flickr pictures, some are renders and some are in-game. The in-game ones look plausible and not too bullshotted to be fair (look at the ones at the end of the set), they look pretty good, and not a million miles off the target renders (as you would hope!).
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Thats correct, the Flickr picture set contains both target renders and also the current in-game screenshots, it's pretty much a collection of all the officially released OFP2 images to date. I never claimed that all the images in the Flickr picture set were in-game, just that some in-game shots could be found on there :)
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I too am massively looking forward to this game, but definitely am weary, especially of the release date. I suspect either a delay or lots of bugs, I'm hoping for a delay. I also hope the majority of the game is outside as with the original.
I'm guessing these in-game shots on flickr are from the PC version? I really do wish companies would stop with the target renders though, it only sets up everyone for disappointment. Still, fingers crossed for this baby. |
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http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3034/2866...
hehe If that explosion occurred ingame either your devs have the best volumetric lighting and particle system in existance that will run on available hardware but for some inexplicable reason failed to realize that kind of tech would be perfect to smooth out the depth of field blur, or, it happened in a psd layer some time in post and yet again its another famous codmasters bullshot. Prove me wrong, I want to know what my face tastes like. |
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@ Discostu
Can we take that as a compliment then? :) @ AbyssUK If you look around the internet you can find some video footage taken using a camcorder of the OFP2 presentation at Leipzig that shows some moving in-game footage in the background. As for HD ingame movies, these aren't available yet, but I'm sure that some will be released in future.
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