Flashpoint Operation Dragon Rising

hello all
didn't know where to put this review so i just popped it into news , you can move it

Flashpoint's plot is incredibly well thought through. It all starts when countries fight (china and russia and japan)for a fictitious island called skira (just of the coast of japan). As the demand of chineese goods deplete, so does the worlds resources. An oil field is found on skira but is very deep down and hard to reach. china invade skira and build a mass oil field. Russia demand china vacate skira but china claim original ownership of the country. russia then call for assistance from the US (which is were you come in).

The game is pretty much modern times , only set in 2010. It's as realistic as it should be, with 1hit kills depending on bullet location etc. The controls are so complicated however, with about 4 pages of controls, including flight , boat and ground vehicles. the enemies are so hard to see on it, on the second level it was a miracle because they decided to give me a thermal scope , so all the guys i couuld take out at 200m boom headshot, It's the most realistic combat experience game i've ever played. Only felt it's intensity on the 3rd level of the first campaign when my squad of 4 was pinned ... Read moredown behind a wall and i called in an artillery strike 150m north-northwest... such a sick game, online is abit fail atm though , concidering i spent half hour trying to connect to the servers!

Can't really comment on the online atm, hopefully they'll patch it soon
single player however is top dog, i'll have to play it more to give a more accurate review

Great Bujj! Thanks very very much for letting us know your thoughts on this game. I was hoping to find out from you how it plays. I really hope they sort out online others it might be a bit of a fail. Online Multiplayer is essential these days and I dont understand why game developers get it wrong on the first release. Its like they are selling you a duff piece of work.

they refused to make an online beta for this and i dont understand why...anyway, i heard from salford soldier that if you keep trying to connect then you eventually do. i dont have 1/2 hrs to fritter away connecting to damn servers though so ill leave it until patched

anyway, ive got this game bujj and if i see you online for some co-op we can bash it right? great review!

Tell us what you think of it too pepe. More opinions please!

I was going to buy it the other day, but bought my headset instead, which thankfully was well worth the money, Monkey_Slum however said Flashpoint was shite and the graphics were that of a ps one game

i tried again tonight to connect to servers,,, nothing!
im considering returning it as it doeswnt do what it says on the tin. i expect a game to work out of the box

Thats odd for it not to connect to the servers though mate....?

I got this as a freebie with my new PS3.

Graphics leave a lot to be desired - if you remember ghost recon for PS2 then thats the graphics quality.

Not really played it that much. As already stated loads of controls to master and playing COD controls confuses me when I want to scope and end up running etc...

Managed to get a 4 player game online once - think that may be the limit!

Will have another go at some point and see if it grows on me.

ill give you a 5er for it

The mutiplayer is 4 aside + you have 3 man (computer) team each.

making it 16 v 16

i connected last night
got to play with a friech pro and 2 nubs

it was abit laggy, but after a while the lag stabalised and disappeared. It's certainly easier than ordering your tem around, unless you have a guy who doesnt know how to use his bazooka.

I ran solo onto the mountain side and managed to pick up an M99 (Cod's substitute for the 50. cal) , phwoar sniiping on FP is orgasmic

So onlines good depending on the people

Jigsaw_v6 wrote:

So onlines good depending on the people

yeah i guess , and the level
would be great to play with someone can talk to

Well ma mate might be getting rid of his mate, so i might buy it or borrow it and we can have a game if ya want?

im not getting it... seems like a fail to me so far

Im going to get my mum to buy me it.

walk the dogs a few times looool

trading this in when i buy mw2 , then i get mw2 for halfprice

it's such a shame , ahad so much potential

From what ive seen, the graphics are slightly better than cod4 and the fighting is intense it looks great but the controls look very hard

bought for online, failed havent tried since, might stick it in tonight,,,hope it works

The online i seen looks fun.

my brother was vs 2 people he had control of about 20 men.

At the start they mangaed to smoke out the building he was defending so he couldnt see at all while they moved into position and then when the smoked cleared there was about 20 AL in a ditch shooting him + his squad while hes calling artillery in.

Then they tried to come around the back and he managed to pen the attacking teams men into a corner on the beach then he fell back to the building he was meant to be defending and won the game.

it look epic. whe was sniping from 400metres away and you could see the bullets dipping and had to keep working out how much each target.

it looked so realistic.


Also another time he was playing a friend, he crashed his helicopter in a river. my brother looked into the river and about 20-30 men come up, him + all his men was shooting them as they was trying to get out was like a turkey hunt was funny

That does sound pretty awesome ligs

I want it, i can afford it but then no cod w2 till christmas.

This game is shite i sold it within 2hours of playing lol

I swerved it because of MW2