Operation Flashpoint 2 for this winter

By Robert Purchese Published 20 March, 2008

Long-awaited sequel comes closer.

Codemasters is aiming to release Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising this winter.

The publisher will shoot more specific details at us soon, according to Videogaming247, which lurked menacingly by a tree.

Operation Flashpoint 2 was originally in the hands of first-game developer Bohemia Interactive, and talked about as long ago as 2003.

However, due to a conflict of interests, developer and publisher parted ways and Codemasters decided to redesign the game from the ground up.

One of its chief boasts is a fresh proprietary engine called EGO that looked very impressive in a batch of show-off screenshots last year.

Other than that, little is known about the title other than the fact it will be on PC, PS3 and 360.

Pop over to our Operation Flashpoint 2 gallery for those nifty shots.

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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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Comments (13) Latest comment 4 years ago

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  • abcd #1 4 years ago

    Hoooooray!!!!

    Memories of the first one flooding back in 1...2...3...


    Ahhh

    Precious memories.

  • syphaa #2 4 years ago

    Sweet as.

    Didn't realise it was in DEV for Console also!
    Might end up picking it up on 360...save spending Ģ500 on a new rig if the screens are anything to go by. [although they look CG].

  • valtteri #3 4 years ago

    Seconded. The screenshots look a bit too impressive to be true. Also glad to see this is for consoles too. Used to be a PC gamer long time ago so I fond memories of the first one. That said, if the real game once itīs released looks almost as good as those screenshots this seems like a suprise hit :)

  • CLOSEALDO #4 4 years ago

    Really hope this works out and it brings a return to more realistic FPS!! Big Maps and one/two shot kills.....

  • GitSomE_UK #5 4 years ago

    Please don't be crap I enjoyed the 1st one.

  • ruttyboy #6 4 years ago

    "That said, if the real game once itīs released looks almost as good as those screenshots this seems like a suprise hit :)"

    Graphics =/= gameplay or fun

  • SomaticSense #7 4 years ago

    /cynic mode on

    Codemasters eh? So a shitty single playr mode, US voiceover ribbing you whenever you miss a shot or praising you about bing "stoked" whenever you nail someone, borked and over sensitive controls, rapid changes in perspective in game style that make no sense.

    Pretty much like DiRT and GRID.

  • monkeymagic #8 4 years ago

    Since ARMA was such a gaping disappointment I'm actually looking forward to this.

  • Whizzo #9 4 years ago

    Yeah all the fears about CM not doing a good job disappeared on ArmA's release because Bohemia botched that good and proper.

  • stoopidgreg #10 4 years ago

    armed assault was so impossibly hard. like the second mission had you on a humvee's 50 cal raiding insurgent settlements... sounds alright until you discover you have to kill the soldiers in the distance before they are even 1 pixel in size. i must have failed that mission 20 times. and it's the second bloody mission... i think by the 6th mission it had just gotten actually impossible.

  • Triggerhappytel #11 4 years ago

    Just recently started playing OpFlash1, which I love, so really looking forward to this.

    Please don't fuck it up, Codies. This is one of the most unique and involving FPS out there; just make it similar to the first game but with dead sexy graphics and we'll be pleased.

  • ExplodingClown #12 4 years ago

    Uh-oh multiformat, I smell dumbing down. Can't see the living room gamer doing the Flashpoint I've-been-shot-in-both-legs-and-having-used-my-one-save-must -now-crawl-for-10-minutes-to-safety myself, despite the tension. It'll probably be gorgeously pretty and vastly stupid a la CoD4.

    Well, still got some hopes for 'Enemy In Sight', after all 'Hidden & Dangerous' was a cracking game (second one was good apart from those one-man missions which stank of 'M*d*l of H*n*r')

  • FWB #13 4 years ago

    Won't run on my Mac so I guess I'll be getting an Xbox or PS3 this Autumn.