- Mar 26, 2011
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Hi All,
So I'm sat here, in front of my machine one more night and I'm searching for some games to purchase. I decide to look upon other people's opinions before I decide my next purchase (I might get involved in Home Front by the way...)
Anyway, I've seen 2 threads about the best FPS ever and all the usual suspects where in the list. There wasn't a game series mentioned which I'd at least not played, or bought one or two games from the series...
But I did read the posts, and I was shocked to see absolutely no mention of; Operation Flashpoint, Arma: Armed Assault, Arma 2: Combined Operations, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead (Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a pile of rubbish arcade style junk which shouldn't have graced the PC format... Code Masters can keep it and any other Operation Flashpoint game they try to push on me).
But Bohemia's Arma - This game series is bloody awesome if you can learn to play it - because I've found there is no other game like it (full stop). But, you do need to learn how to play it and some people simply don't have the patience.
This truely sweet game series as a great single player campaign, it's fun too and immersive, but buggy at times. The online community is awesome. The online community have developed some pretty great mods/scenarios to play in as well in player vs player, or coop, even small scale RPG, and player vs player in cross over stragegy (FPS + bird's eye view strategy goodness). The game has a high replay value for me personally because of the many game modes available and I think more people should get involved in this game. Albeit perhaps that this game is a bit adult? But trust me, this can only be a good thing.
One huge benefit from this game is that the terrain (which I believe I read) is taken from real GPS photography, and the area which you can battle in is huge (full stop). If you want to climb a mountain and sniper someone from literally 1000 meters, with a 360 degree view, you can do this. You can do it at night too, with night vision of thermal imaging. This is completely unlike COD:MW2 or COD:BO, I'm not referring to the night vision and thermal imaging, although Arma does this with way better effects. I'm referring to when you're being suffocated in a tiny little area, preparing yourself to be spawn raped, by the very limited amount of people allowed in a game. Then when you do see an enemy, before you know it you're being noobed by someone with the sprint/prone AK74 moves, harvesting their kill/death ratio, the same way they have done since they loaded the game, over and over.
So, this game series (Arma) is a simulator experience, but it is incredibly rewarding, most of the time way more so than the arcade style play of MW2 or BO - unless of course you want to be a lean mean spawn raping machine with more shooting and diving than a break dancer with a vendetta.
Well, so I'm going to check out Homefront - I'm not really sure a rehash of COD is worth £30, but I'd prefer to give THQ the money than Activision.
So I'm sat here, in front of my machine one more night and I'm searching for some games to purchase. I decide to look upon other people's opinions before I decide my next purchase (I might get involved in Home Front by the way...)
Anyway, I've seen 2 threads about the best FPS ever and all the usual suspects where in the list. There wasn't a game series mentioned which I'd at least not played, or bought one or two games from the series...
But I did read the posts, and I was shocked to see absolutely no mention of; Operation Flashpoint, Arma: Armed Assault, Arma 2: Combined Operations, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead (Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a pile of rubbish arcade style junk which shouldn't have graced the PC format... Code Masters can keep it and any other Operation Flashpoint game they try to push on me).
But Bohemia's Arma - This game series is bloody awesome if you can learn to play it - because I've found there is no other game like it (full stop). But, you do need to learn how to play it and some people simply don't have the patience.
This truely sweet game series as a great single player campaign, it's fun too and immersive, but buggy at times. The online community is awesome. The online community have developed some pretty great mods/scenarios to play in as well in player vs player, or coop, even small scale RPG, and player vs player in cross over stragegy (FPS + bird's eye view strategy goodness). The game has a high replay value for me personally because of the many game modes available and I think more people should get involved in this game. Albeit perhaps that this game is a bit adult? But trust me, this can only be a good thing.
One huge benefit from this game is that the terrain (which I believe I read) is taken from real GPS photography, and the area which you can battle in is huge (full stop). If you want to climb a mountain and sniper someone from literally 1000 meters, with a 360 degree view, you can do this. You can do it at night too, with night vision of thermal imaging. This is completely unlike COD:MW2 or COD:BO, I'm not referring to the night vision and thermal imaging, although Arma does this with way better effects. I'm referring to when you're being suffocated in a tiny little area, preparing yourself to be spawn raped, by the very limited amount of people allowed in a game. Then when you do see an enemy, before you know it you're being noobed by someone with the sprint/prone AK74 moves, harvesting their kill/death ratio, the same way they have done since they loaded the game, over and over.
So, this game series (Arma) is a simulator experience, but it is incredibly rewarding, most of the time way more so than the arcade style play of MW2 or BO - unless of course you want to be a lean mean spawn raping machine with more shooting and diving than a break dancer with a vendetta.
Well, so I'm going to check out Homefront - I'm not really sure a rehash of COD is worth £30, but I'd prefer to give THQ the money than Activision.
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