Saturday, April 27, 2013

Operation Flash Point: Dragon Rising Verdict

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Name: Operation Flash Point - Dragon Rising.

Developer: Codemasters Software Company Ltd.

Engine: EGO.

Year: 2009.

Age Censorship: 18V.

Min Spec's: Win Xp (SP2)/ Vista (SP2)/ 7; 2.4 GHz Dual Core Processor; 1GB Ram; 8GB Hard drive Space; DirectX Compatible sound device; DVD-Rom.

Plot: Dragon Rising takes place on the fictional island of Skira, in May 2011. After the Global Economic Crisis causes mass unemployment and political destabilization in China, the PLA seize control of Skira and the vast, newly discovered reservoir of oil there, from the Russian Federation. Peace talks prove useless as both combatants lay claim to Skira due to previous ownership of it. The situation deteriorates quickly and China begins to fortify its northern provinces in anticipation of armed conflict with Russia. Russia, already countering the PLA on the Chinese mainland, calls to the United States of America to retake Skira from the Chinese. Bound by treaty arrangements made after the end of the Cold War, America agrees and the two biggest armies in the world begin to clash on the island. As the game progresses, the player must fight off enemy forces along with his fireteam and allied soldiers, for example, this could be assaulting a village held by the PLA, suppressing a team pinning down your fellow soldiers, or rescuing downed crews of crashed helicopters from behind enemy lines.
   (Wikipedia.org)

Verdict: Well this kind of felt like I was playing advance Warfighter again, and I do love strategic game play, problem is, I don't like it in a first person shooter. As to how I played GRAW (Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter 2) and finished, I don't know, must have been a ghost of me that was playing.
“You can blame it all on Call of Duty.”
 As to why I don't like strategic game play on FPS, you can blame it all on Call of Duty. You see in a first person shooter ever since Modern Warfare came along, I expect a lot of action, bodies falling, people running for cover, mortars blasting on the fields. But people asking me for orders, and me calling a medic just because I didn't put one private in the right place, and changing their diapers while in action, is the last thing on my mind. As for rating this game…

Playability: B for playability.
Graphics: C for graphics.
Environment: B for its environment.
ShockAndAwe: D for ShockAndAwe.
Plot: D for Plot.

Overall: C**, You should buy when waiting for the drop date on an awesome title.