What a dissapointment this was. The premise of Operation Flashpoint looked great; open battlefields, non-linear gameplay, real tactical gameplay, lots of pilotable vehicles and a supposedly deep story. What you actually get it is a tacky, almost sickeningly unplayable game. Controls: When will foreign studios ever get a clue and start intergrating proper control schemes into these kind of games. Before I continue, I understand that tactical games have to have realistic controls to retain a certain level of realism, but that obviously wasn't the goal here. When you move your mouse, rather than the crosshair remaining in the centre of the screen and your viewpoint moving, the crosshair moves until you hit the side of the screen, at which point your viewpoint will move. This makes no sense, as you struggle to aim the crosshair asif you're moving a mouse pointer around on your desktop. This seriously hampers your aiming ability. Movement is another major control problem. When you move, your gun swings all over the palce and goes down to your side, rather than staying in one place and moving a little when you move around. Your gun also swings all over the place in an even uglier fashion when aiming. You accelerate like a slug in all directions too, which makes the entire control process even more confusing. The default control scheme is utterly idiotic. Crouch is mapped to Q, Prone is mapped to Z, the operation menu (basically a little box that pops up in the right-hand bottom corner) is mapped to Enter, navigating this box is mapped to your mouse-wheel, changing to third-person view is mapped to your numpad enter button; the list of stupid decisions is endless. Trying to change the controls is infuriating and confusing and attempting to map my mouse failed, although i didn't really look that much into it because this game sucks anyway. The vehicle controls are another design decision that just boggles the mind. They took the time to map player controls, but they couldn't even map secondary vehicle controls for those of us unlucky enough to have two broken PS/2 ports and only two USB ports, and those who don't even have a joystick. Wouldn't it just have come naturally to a normal human being that it might be a good idea to map the helicopter controls like, maybe, i dunno, Battlefield Vietnam or something?. W for thrust, S for reverse thrust, A for rotate left and D for rotate right?. Arrow keys for moving aound?. Stupid, just plain damn stupid. So for controls, i give this game a 2. It's barely playable, and i'd like to give the idiots at Bohemia Interactive a punch in the head for being illogical fools. Graphics: Decent. The graphics, while being high-poly in places, are bland and colourless. The animations are okay, but nothing special. Gameplay: What gameplay?. IF you somehow manage to get a grip on the controls, you'll be hard pressed to find ANY fun running around the bland environments shooting soldiers in the distance. The vehicles are okay, comprising of jeeps, tanks, planes and helicopters but as i never got to flying one, i can only assume it'd be a boring and unfun experiance much like the rest of this game. The story is retarded. It's yet another moronic game set in some far off country during the Cold War where some president dude has been assassinated or something blah blah, typical "tactical" game plot. The cutscenes are ingame and poorly animated and the dialogue is pathetic, but acceptable considering these guys don't really know how to make a First-Person Shooter. Sound: Just your average shooter sounds. Soundtrack is nothing special, the voice dialogue is pretty dodgy though. Overall, this game makes me sick. It's terrible, tacky and cheap. No polish went into any part of this game, and the control scheme just makes you want to explode in total confusion. What the hell is wrong with these people?. Have they EVER played a game, elt alone an FPS before?. I had really high hopes for this game but it completely disapointed me. How any of the previous reviews can say that this game is good or a "Masterpiece" only shows what awful taste some gamers have. Are they blind or something?, or maybe they're the people who developed this game attempting to make it look good. Do not buy this game. Stay right away for your own sake. Go and play a good tactical game, or something like Battlefield 1942 if you like vehicles.
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