Operation Flashpoint: Elite - for XBox

[Jawed]

http://www.xboxworld.com.au/xbox_games/review_xbox.php?idReview=624

The award winning Operation Flashpoint first appeared on PC in 2001 and offered gamers the most realistic simulation of military combat ever seen in a computer game. In fact it was so impressive, a slightly modified version of the software was adopted by the US Marine Corps and Australian Army for soldier training and war gaming purposes. Three years in development, Operation Flashpoint: Elite has arrived on Xbox without compromise. Every feature, every complex ballistic calculation, every campaign and every mission ever designed for the series has been ported to the console, optimised and improved for the Xbox hardware. The final result is an enormous game spanning two huge campaigns, 15 stand-alone missions, instant action mode, full Xbox Live and System-Link multiplayer options and a mission editor.

Seriously great game on the PC - looks like it stands a chance of being very good on XBox, too.

Jawed

 

[pc999]

I waited for this for a long time, cant wait to try it.

 

[Pozer]

This game was awsome on the PC. Much more my pace, like a battlefield simulation compared to arcady games like BF1942. But man that was a long time ago. I remember tweaking my work computer running dual celerons and a tnt2 so I could play it at work also. Not sure how this game would hold up today.

Favorite moment ever in this game. Playing multiplayer and found an abandoned hugo like car in the in a village after walking forever (maps were miles long). Me and 4 players entered the vehicle and and my best friend was driving and I was sitting shotgun. I looked over in the game and watched him move the steering wheel as we drove down a dirt road and ended up ramming a t72 tank all dying. It was funny to see 4 soldiers cram into a little car, weapons and all. Also way ahead of its time for 2001. The attention to detail was amazing.

 

[bouy]

I think I read somewhere the Xbox version allows joining of multiplayer games in progress which was what I believed killed the OPF on the PC. It was supposed to be something they implemented to Armed Assault which they threw into the Xbox OPF.

Multiplayer in this game is amoung the best I've ever played but it didn't help that you couldn't just find a game and jump in right away, you had to wait. So many times I joined a server which was in briefing and ended up being a second too short to get in the game.

I'm tempted to buy this game to play a lot on Xbox Live. I'm kinda skeptical about how the controls will be like on the Xbox.

 

[Deepak]

Jawed, you do play games. j/k

 

[Jawed]

Jawed, you do play games. j/k

It helps that my little old Radeon from 2001 plays OFP, still, reasonably well. When I create a mission with 200 AI soldiers on foot, in tanks, AA guns, choppers and tankbusters it's the CPU (A64 3500+) that starts crying.

Jawed