New Operation Flashpoint: Red River Trailer and Screenshots

Codemasters has released a new trailer for the next installment in the Operation Flashpoint series. Called " Red River" is shows how a small US Marine force would fight off a larger enemy contingent.

I know what you're going to say. "Wow Joseph, another war game. I'll get to it just as soon as I get tired of my Call of Medal of Duty for Honors Class." But you have to remember something, Operations Flashpoint is nothing like those other "Call of Honor" games. It's something much different.

When Operation Flashpoint was first released it  was a PC only game that catered not to the shooter crowd, but to the military sim enthusiast crowd. It was about large scale military tactics in an open-world setting.  Everything from tanks, jets, jeeps, civilian vehicles, choppers...you name it.  It also came with an extensive map editor with which you could create any mission type you liked, add in AI, route points, objectives or anything else you liked. Often times I would create two tank Platoons made up of AI and watch them fight it out.

Though I'm guessing that the map editor will not be available in the console release, what you will have is large-scale military tactics in large open-world areas.  Not the corridor-shooter model that most of our current military shooters employ.  Do not, for a moment, think that Operation Flashpoint is just more of the same. It most certainly is not. It will be a game where no two battles are run the same, a game where you won't be able to memorize which doors the enemy will pop out from. Operation Flashpoint is actually something very fresh, and sorely needed in the current state that the modern FPS has found itself in. And it can flourish, as long as people give it a chance.

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