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Worth being gold!
I just recently bought 2 games this past week. One is Medal of Honor and the second is this one, Operation Flashpoint Gold. I made my decision based on reviews here at amazon.com. I am very dissapointed with Medal of Honor for being able to get shot in the head a dozen times and still live and yet get bit by a dog 3 to 4 times and be able to die. However.....This game is by far worth being gold. The weather, the sound, the vehicles. The sounds of the bullets flying past your ears barely missing a fatal hit to your death. One of my favorites about this game is that AI. Unlike "Medal of Honor" and so many other lazily made war games, you can kill an enemy soldier and one of his buddies will "notice" it! If you hide yourself well enough, they can't see you. If they walk around and see you near them, they will shoot. If you haven't played this game. PLAY IT! Better yet, BUY IT! It's worth every penny! Save your money from Medal of Honor. No matter what any of your friends say about the LAN/Networking play of it. Tell them you are going to get a "real" game that you can do more with over a network/LAN party! ;)
added 02/12/2003: Just wanted to add the fact of how cool, fun and easy it is to add and make your own mission. Not to mention the fact that there are so many downloadable add ons you can put in there too. Also if you love flying, driving, and boating, you'll like this. Take advantage of building your own missions. Cause it's worth it. Get tired of a mission. Make a new one! Great, isn't it?

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Best war game I've ever played
In a nutshell, this game rocks! I have yet to find anything annoying about the game except for the occasional slowdowns because im running on an athlon 750, but its worth buying more then any war game out there today. The only reason I say this is because even the single player is a blast to play, very realistic to the point of sweaty palms and increasd heartrate. I even find myself moving my body around in real life while playing trying to duck and stuff. I have yet to encounter a war sim that has such atmosphere. Total freedom here in this game and very good training missions. You gain a feel for this game unlike any other.

This is probably the only game I will give 5 stars to. Its DEFINITELY WORTH THE BUY.

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The Game that the Army actually uses to train Soldiers
Operation Flashpoint started its life in the Czech Republic as a solider training Virtual Reality application and was soon taken over by Illusion Software and developed into a fully fledged real time war game. So why not see what sort of stuff the military have concocted to train their men? OF plays every bit as good as this type of realism suggests!

OF is simply - you are solider, here is what a war is like. Go play. The game is NOT like Medal of Honour or Doom. Even though it has first person/ third person modes and plays like a first person shooter it is more akin to MS Flight Sim in that everything is hyper realistic from the weapons, platoons, soldiers, divisions, operations manuals, commands and objectives. Most of the objects in the maps are destructible including the buildings and the forests! You can run down a field with 100 soldiers and take on a platoon of tank, air crafts and enemy soldiers and even get blown up in the process by a shell flying in your direction (shaking the earth and creating giant holes in the ground!). You can even get wounded and end up crawling along the ground needing a medic fast. Oh no! The medic is dead! Now what to do? You can issue fifty commands to your team. You can take on the role of any type of soldier (Engineer, Commander, Sniper, Machine Gunner, Pilot and much more) and you can do anything, like blow up a score of the enemy with some land mines you have planted while you hide in the bush watching it all happen (hehehe), snipe a whole platoon from behind a rock, climb into a tank and drive it around or into a jet or a helicopter or even the enemy bomber! This is the Grand Theft Auto: Vice City of army games. This game is so operationally realistic that it will blow your mind. To compare this game to Counter-Strike is a way off the mark. CS is just a small maps, with limited teams, and the objective is to frag your way into winning or plant the bomb or rescue the hostages. CS is a great multiplayer game and I play it a lot but it is certainly nothing like OF! And OF still has not been beat in terms of realism. The A.I in this game is amazing! In the map editor you can choose the A.I skill (six levels) of each individual enemy unit or soldier!

The big plus is the bonus map editor where you can create your own battles and objectives. There is nothing else like it and because of the 'easy' map editor the lifespan of this game is infinitive. I have created missions in less than ten minutes that I can play all day long - and do!

The only downside to this game is that it has a massive learning curve and the graphics are not exactly ground breaking stuff, but they are still very good. You will have to play this game on and off for at least a week before you become familiar with everything and that is when the game really takes off. I mean you can literally run away from your platoon, steal a boat, go for a cruise, attack some non-mission critical platoon, steal their helicopter and come back later to see how your buddies are doing. Maybe they killed all the bad guys? Maybe they are all dead? Maybe some are dead and others are wounded and in need of treatment. Go get a medic! Revive your crew! Order them to board the helicopter you stole. Fly back to base. Get more gear. Fight on!

The bottom line is that once you have played all the missions learn the game editor. You can find the manual on-line and you will be up and running with it in a day. The editor is one of the easiest I have ever used and turns this game into a 6 star value for money experience like no other.

Operation Flashpoint is a landmark in game design. Do not underestimate it.