Operation Flashpoint (Arma) - a Nostalgic Review
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 15 พ.ค. 2014
- Why Operation Flashpoint was (and still is) one of the best military sims out there, and a fun sandbox to boot.
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Operation Flashpoint was renamed Arma: Cold War Crisis after Bohemia Interactive split away from Codemasters. Interestingly, it doesn't include the Red Hammer campaign since they don't have the rights to it... but it was the weakest of the 3 anyway.
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As someone who played this as a child, can confirm I'm a military genius now.
My first game yeah it s a great game !
+NavidIsANoob Yeah, like G36's existed way before the 1990s where it was first designed and called into service. Still a great game.
+NavidIsANoob
Thumbs up guys if you miss this military simulator -> Arma Cold War Assault aka. Operation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis Remastered edition enhance by real virtuality 4 New title Arma Cold War 2016.
I miss this game. I wish that they make this project.
With additional features:
Inventory enhancement such as weapon attachment on m4 scope or without scope, with silencer or without silencer, bipod or without bipod on machine gun so that the player can decide or choose. And bag pack to place other items like ammo things like that.
support this project.
+Fghqrag bayl Or essentialy codify arma.
No thanks no need for inventory and attachments, there are other games who are good at it but arma is muuch more concentraded on strategy n' all.
+Fghqrag bayl Just mod Arma 3 ;P
When you're watching a nostalgic review which was posted 5 years ago and you start to feel nostalgic about feeling nostalgic and then you realise you're old.
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Death is coming fas.
Amen
can confirm
Don't worry, there still are a lot more of us than you think
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THIS IS PAPA BEAR TO ALL SQUADS. YOURE APPROUACHING THE ENEMEY POSITIONS. CONTACT IS IMMINENT. GOT HELP US ALL. OUT
Holzturm *All move to that tree at 1 o’clock*
U freaking got me nostalgia and iam still playing it
@@apropercuppa8612 Giving that order while in the woods
WE ARE PULLING OUT. REPEAT, WE ARE PULLING OUT OF EVERON.
“Alpha 1 to all units, remember, no one is to leave here alive, let’s waist em.. out!”
Count with me:
- Non-linear game play
- Scalable and extendable in every way via modding
- Never crashes (unless some incompatible mods installed then it's your fault)
- Wide maps
- Everything can be operatble
- Simple but effective unit commanding style
I spent countless hours on this game, and I wish I have free time to spend more because this game is just enjoyable and you can tell how great it is by the success of its sequels.
so you recommend it
and where can i get it
On steam
store.steampowered.com/app/65790/
You asked in the right time, there are big sales now on steam and its your chance to get for few pennies, mr. putin.
spaziba
do you know if there's any one on mp
vladimir putin
Sorry I have no idea, but keep in mind that game is 14 years old now and people are more focused on its children: Arma 2, Arma 3, and DayZ
I was in the Army when it came out and remember thinking for the first time that this was the first thing even close to reality. For a start, you'd be under fire, and you couldnt see where it was coming from - that was exactly what we would encounter on exercise and its what really struck me about this being different to games like Delta Force etc. Also, that you didnt have to be some lone SF super soldier, you could be a machine gunner or medic as part of a squad. A real watershed moment in gaming.
ahhh delta force good memories
Yeah :D The fact that I still don't know where bullets come from hunts me till today. Also, I have learned to not search for soldiers, because I can't see them well... But to return fire to flashing guns.
@@poryg5350
There are no flashing lights during daylight.
@@JAnx01 There are, unless you have them turned off. The only exception would be HKMP5 and maybe pistols. But machineguns and assault rifles have a flash everytime someone fires.
Honestly, i just play OFP because it's the ONLY GAME where you can be a common lowest-rank grunt you got your rifle and you follow orders and that for me it's extremly fun.
10/10 review. Extremely underrated game nowadays, and that campaign... I still remember the mission where you're stranded and need to get back to your unit... one of the most difficult missions of any FPS i've ever played. Took me a good three days to complete it... Heart throbbing as I hid in bushes hoping they wouldn't find me, then sprinting through the forest with gunfire ringing past me. The amount of satisfaction and achievement I felt completing it simply isn't going to be matched nowadays.
+Todd Ventura Yes, I think that may be the mission... though it has been a good 7-8 years since I played the campaign.
+Xenoforge78 After Montignac scarred my soul. I still remember the joy of finding that abandoned UAZ just to the east on the edge of that village...and the abject terror of being shot at by a tank whilst driving in said UAZ.
+Jason Hodgson Avoided all gun fire, armored patrols and choppers just to get killed by a grenade from RES soldiers after being captured by Russian...3 times! FML :P (Back then i didnt know I should have ignored Russian guards and run straight away from the hut after gunfire with RES occured).
Manh nguyen duc That's....really unlucky lol
+Xenoforge78 And then....when you _finally_ make it back to the retreat-camp position......!! :O
See you all in Montignac...
+G4343 That mission was made by satan himself haha :D
+G4343 and russians incomming :D
For me the hardest mission was always the one where the island is being evacuated and you're left alone in the forest. Took me literal years to figure out what to do.
+Ant the Gord i am sure you were just walking around with x4 time and ending up getting killed from machinegunners killing you from over 200 meters away .
X_mezo_X You assume wrong. Problem was I always actually tried to escape and make it to the evac point when only years later did I learn that you weren't supposed to escape but defend yourself while staying there. (not just running around blindly like you're humorously stating but instead ending with 20-30 kills as well as the occasional BMP kill too)
Honestly that you'd assume I'm that dumb is a bit insulting when I was just doing what I was told by the game at the time. (considering every mission to that point had been follow-objective-mission-accomplished) Regardless I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and assume your reply is just very poorly worded and that you aren't just a presumptuous asshole trying to put down other people that enjoy arma/ofp for not knowing every nuance of the original campaign right out the fkin womb.
The mission in the forest by yourself, enemy scouts tanks helicopters around you... That was next level, you could feel the fear flowing through your body
After Montignac. An iconic mission, one of many!
I thought I fucked up something cause I didnt understand how to escape and complete the mission
I have not and hopefully will not ever experienced War but I can imagine it alternates between extreme boredom and extreme terror, with plenty of confusion to boot. Operation Flashpoint captured this perfectly. One of the scariest and most tense gaming experiences I've had were when I had to hide out in the woods whilst being overrun by enemy troops. You wake up the next day to find your teammates dead and enemy troops heading towards you. You then have to traverse several kilometres of enemy territory without being killed, trying to make your extraction in time. Your heart is in your throat the entire time. It may have been largely scripted but it didn't feel that way.
It's a common theme in veteran's memoirs that war is really boring when it isn't really terrifying. I have similarly never been in combat (the more I read the more unpleasant it sounds) but Arma is the only game that gives me a sense of that feeling. Driving from your FOB over to the mission area, listening to your buddies or scripted NPC chatter, then the vehicle in front gets hit and you're all scrambling for cover and firing back at distant muzzle flashes.
OH NO! ONE IS DOWN
2 TAKING COMMAND, I SAY AGAIN, 2 TAKING COMMAND, OUT.
BMP 2 TOO FOUZEND MIDERS ! BEEMEPEE IZ HISTORRYYY !
"Where are you?!"
"Two, position Alfa Delta Six Eight!"
"Four, position Beta Charlie Eight Eight!"
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"Oh no, Three is down!"
"Where are you?!"
FORWARD
HALT
FORWARD
HALT
LEFT
FORWARD
FAST
HALT
INJURED!
TWO, HEAL THAT SOLDIER, 12 OCLOCK.
I SAY AGAIN, I SAY AGAIN, I SAY AGAIN, I SAY AGAIN, I SAY AGAIN
Yes yes YESSSSSSS. This game was my childhood. I played this game so much in every way possible. Making my own epic beach head missions, piloting and driving every vehicle. Oh my god what a great game. This should be a game that gets remastered. Seriously, remaster this.
Arma 2 Cold War Rearmed 2
Earthling Man it already is. you can port everything (including maps!) into arma 3. there's actually every single mission in OFP recreated in arma 3 on the steam workshop. arma 3 uses pretty much the same engine
You know a game is old when a nostalgic review is almost 10 years old as well. 😄
Awhile ago, me and an old mate of mine were playing a zombie survival custom mission. Us two, some AI squadmates, and an island full of running zombies with a few vehicles and ammo to survive on. Only an hour into the game we were running for our lives, our AI squad mate was driving our only vehicle; a humvee. He crashed it into a power pole at night, injuring all of us, effectively taking out our legs. We crawled out of the crashed vehicle only to be jumped on by two dozen zombies momentarily. We all died shortly after, but that was certainly a great moment.
Cayden I
That mission is class
I have played similar missions with my mates
No game has ever felt as large and desolate as OFP/Arma when you have broken legs at night
It may be a little late... but do you have a name for the mission?
Opeartion Flashpoint is till this date on of my favourites games ever made! I like it even more than the newer ArmA games.
i miss the good old servers :'(
spent hours playing custom missions from TOW series , custom gamemodes , nogovile ,and even the nogova virus series which was a real ton of fun .
i really miss these days ;(
there were some guys doing a Falkland Islands Campaign mod based on the Argentinian take-over of those islands and the British forces battle to take them back.
Harrier jump jets vs Mirage Entende jets? nice. that would be a cool dogfight. the jump jets were barely Mach 1 but the Mirage jets were about Mach 1.6 yet the jump jets kept shooting them outta the sky. Maybe it was because the Harriers could hover or that they had a gunner as well as a pilot? sidewinder missiles that were newer than the Argentinian sidewinders?
the Brit troops had to yomp [march] to the Argentinian positions because the choppers were all on one ship which was sunk so the Brit troops had no choice but to march thru 2-3 foot deep marshes in freezing cold in the middle of the friggin Atlantic Ocean.
I seriously thinking about getting Operation Flashpoint, can you tell me what makes it better than the new Arma games?^^
Clorox Bleach Same Mate.
+Vanessa Hicker Thank you very much^^ Esspecially the single player part sounds amazing. Its great to see such a game with this grand scale and still caring to input a nice Singleplayer part^^
Loved this game back in 2001. The most memorable points for me were: A panic run through a forest getting shot at,. Trying to decide how best to ambush a convoy in a valley. And sneaking into a Russian base stealing a helicopter to make the mission easier.
i remember that mission where you are lost and have to navigate to some waypoint from the woods. Getting killed and then when the inevitable zoom to your killer, learning a t-80 from some obscene distance on the horison took me out. Scary, difficult, thrilling, realistic. OFP favourite game ever.
Exactly the three missions that were most impressive and stayed in my memory as well...
The introduction is exactly how I felt when I first played this game, it's like you took the words out of my mouth, couldn't describe it better myself. I recently replayed the game and it still feels great to play. What a legendary game.
Man the memories, 6 hours to complete certain missions, sneaking around in the forest at night while enemy soldiers walks right next to you, COD players would not even last 1 second playing this
Well I missed it by a couple of days, but happy 10 years to this vid!
An absolute spot on review of the game. I never left Everon because OFP has all I need in a game. And that Editor!, my god! The hours of fun that editor provides to this day. Not enough can be said of OFP. I fell in love with the scenery on Everon, and I'm in the process of modelling Everon in 1:160 scale. I'm running a railway through it to provide operational interest. Most of the buildings are constructed, I just need to update my channel to reflect that. Cheers!
+Everon Railways I wholeheartedly second that! - I'd love to see how that turned out! :)
- Everon always had a special feel to it....Beyond my ability to quantify.
- I remember the _wonderful_ Mod Campaign *PMC Fury* was for me the finest Everon campaign - about 50/60 SP missions, slowly working your way south, winning back Everon metre by metre! :D
+Everon Railways hey , you know , in Arma : Combat Operations (Armed Assault) you can downlaod a mod called "Cold War ReArmed" , witch takes you to the OFP era of 1985 , it include the campaign CWC and Resistence
BitFox
Yeah, they even revived it a few years later as ColdWar Re-Armed 2 (for ARMA2)
It's a really great Mod - lots of love put into it, you can tell :)
a folder made of pure love and war , so much war , OFP made me so paranoid aboud walking in teh open then wen i am in a gunfire i dotn even run anymore , just lay down for a second and try to understand teh situation , start moving into a forest or a city to get some cover , always carry 2 rouds of LAW/RPG 1 Grenade for Grenade Launcher(2 in the mod FFUR/ECP) and 4 mags for main weapon once i get in any house you will dont see me in teh streets in a long time, eventualy my matches take about 1h/3hs long, they say i am a coward , i just fight in another way , a way that will keep me alive for longer
BitFox
Hey, that's what counts at the end of the day!
(and Thank ODIN that we have games like OFP that lets us play this way - it really brings the Tension like no other! )
So, _EveronRailways_ - even a couple of Digital-Photos would be great if a vid is too much hassle-worthy - I for one would _Love_ to see how it's coming along. :)
I own every Arma game and love them all but this still is and will always be my favorite. Not only does it have the best campaign of all the Arma games, but the gameplay perfectly captured the idea of "playing war" just like I did with my army men in the garden (I had tanks, helicopters, barbed wire, sandbags, the whole shebang)
Recently I finally purchased Arma 3 and played it. Pitiful campaign it was (I don't really get why these guys are so obsessed with Spec Ops thing when the best part of the game is clearly the massive combined arms battle), but I was impressed how they managed to perfect the system. Just imagine how good it would be if we could play fully remastered Flashpoint and Resistance campaign on this engine...
I agree with the review, OFP was the best thing that could happen to us military games fans. Back then it was a wonderful game that could bring joy for thousands of hours.
I used to team kill in single player missions to turn my forces against me, then try and survive as long as I could.
Base building as the Commander in CTI's on Everon was awesome, my brother and I played for 5 hours until there were only two players per side left.
While I defended our base with RPGs, he flew a Hind to their base, and trashed it to win the game, one of the best PC experiences ever.
The music is bringing years to my eyes.
I also got to know this game from a friend, played it at his place and later bought it myself. I was 11 years old when I got it in 2001. No game ever came close to the feelings I got when I played it, I literally was scared of being shot when I had to try and escape Everon. But not only then. This game is a true masterpiece.
This game was revolutionary when it came out. I was a teenage and had never seen any war game as free as this one. It was the first time you could fly anywhere. It felt so real. One of my fave games as a youngster.
You nearly explained my experience with this game exactly as well (no internet and such)... I remember after a mission going pearshaped, killing an enemy sniper then stealing his svd and finishing the mission with that and broken legs (from another random group of roaming Ai that managed to tag me) crawling for 1km up a hill to get my debriefing. The camera pans around my guy talking to the officer and my dudes face was blown off... just a bloody surface with his mouth moving... telling the officer casually that he had a few dramas but managed to complete the mission. Awesome shit.
same here!
i remember this mission where my whole squad was killed in the woods and then i was chased by a helicopter...
good times!
Not to mention that the expantion packs had content worthy of full games. Most people remember resistance, but Red Hammer was amazing too, even if it was developed by Codemasters themselves. I remember one scene in the beginning of the campaign where two soldiers are talking about how excited they was about finally seeing action, only to have their officer reprimand them telling them that war was no joking matter.
Despite having crappy, shitty voice acting, the characters felt like people. People with real fears, real worries and real emotions. People who had families and friends, and who didn't want to die over a war they didn't feel was theirs.
For me, this will allways be the best gaming experience I have ever had. I keep the passion alive by playing ARMA 3 with a like minded community focused on authenticity and tactical gameplay. But nothing can compare to the sheer fear of hearing a BMP roll over a hill catching you and your squad in the middle of a field. It made me understand how much of a force multiplier a thing like that really is. Or the terror of spotting a Hind in the horizon.
- I spy with my little eye, something beginning with G....
+aLmAnZio Gun.
No it's not gun, it's grass ;)
JEEP DOESN'T START WITH G YOU MEATHEAD!!!!!
4 years later and I am still coming back to this video.
Great review! Yeah I also loved the moments of "peace" between missions... Well the whole "openworld" thing was such a novelty that I used to make missions for the demo where basically you had to live a lot of the "behind the lines" moments: soldiers just hanging together, patrols, do small tasks in your base. Such great times. Oh btw, there weren't any editor in the demo, so we made missions using text editors... O__o
My dad used to play this when he was still alive :/
I remember always watching him play with his friends, and I always thought that they all are mature.
Maybe they were, but not now.
Sorry for ur loss
My dad did the same and this is why i started playing it
During my holidays in primary school, I'd spend hours playing around in this beautiful sandbox, it took me 10 years and learning about arma 2-3 to really appreciate how ahead of it's time the game was. I remember spending hours trying to finish the campaign which was soo long, contrasted to games of the early 2000's, but it was so challenging and rewarding. I remember trying to finish the mission where you're cut off from your team, it took me a good month to finish, I remember I was hit in the leg so I ended up crawling for 2 km and finally found a UAZ in some random house, i was so happy. The final mission where you pick up the boys for a beer after the war was when i knew this game was dope! not too mention all the things you could do in the editor.
Back in 2001 I read about the game in a magazine. The idea of driving tanks,apc etc was mind boggling. Will always cherish the memories attached with this game.
I'll never forget Guba's hysterical Russian screaming at the camera, the fact that they couldn't animate faces well and he had a dull expressionless face just made it even scarier, I was fucking afraid when Guba would shout at me telling me to leave his island, and then the game drops you in the middle of enemy territory with a few satchel charges and two idiots you have to take care of to destroy 3 shilkas at night...those were scary times
+petargrad Man I save-scummed that mission with shift + Num+ savegame a lot, it's really tough. The trick is to enter the house and wait for at least 30 soldiers to come one by one to the door, where you can easily cap them. If you try to escape without killing them, it's impossible. Then enter a nearby vehicle and pray the T80 doesn't snipe you from 2km away.
ironicly i entered the house after killing like 20 soldiers from inside a bush then killing more of them from inside the house , the hard part was to snipe the BMPs around without getting killed through a window or without shooting that rocket into the house.
wasn't so hard for me tho according that i really like to play special forces missions with patience and stealthy attacks :D
petargrad i don't consider the save thing a cheat honestly xD
ArmA II and ArmA III are great, but they lack the campaign quality of ArmA Cold War Assault (OFP)
@Abrasax Palante go play your fortnite & pubg kid , this place is not for you
@Abrasax Palante unpopular... opinion
haha i totally resonate the same way you felt when you played this game at a younger age. The very thought of enemies possibly being "out there" on the map and coming for my ass terrified the hell out of me. Back then when i was a lot younger i could never complete the after montignac mission because of how scared i was being the only guy left alive surrounded by enemies in a forrest of all places but now it's easily one of my favourite missions in the game. This game is legendary!
My beloved title. That music, that immense atmosphere...I love that game.
I am a combat vet who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan. I love arma, I didnt get to play the original flashpoint, but i remember holding the box alot at walmart as a kid, hoping my parents would buy it for me haha. Anyway, I thought from a mil sim perspective, that red river was quite good. Its so far the only game I have seen that works properly in a platoon format. In real life, ( I was a SGT in the 101rst Airborne) soldiers fight in squads, which form a platoon, a platoon usually has about 20 to 30 men in it under the overall command of a platoon SGT who is a SFC, and delegates his orders to his SGTs who lead their squads. I cant think of another game that does that in singleplayer. Red River always saw you in some open environment, taking orders while leading (much like my job) and you had to manage your squad, in battle alongside other squads that made up your platoon, changing levels was about riding in a convoy in an invasion, alot of time in war isnt spent fighting, I found those segments to really add immersion and make me feel like I was in a war. That ontop of the scenery you saw while riding from aircraft, to choppers hitting distance targets, I dunno, to me...it was a great war sim that I cant find a singleplayer competitor too. Im just curious what you civilians didnt like about it. (aside from clunky controls lol)
I salute you for your service! Anyways, that is cool!
according to google we invaded afghanistan in 2001 and this game came out in 2001 so how does that timeline work did you serve in irag and afghanistan when you were 8?
according to wikipedia (War in Afghanistan (2001-present)) so if he was 8 in 2001 potentiali he could serve when he got 20 yo in the years 2013-2015
he said he FOUGHT so im pretty sure this might be fake
MEIN GOTT 101st (D-DAY FLASHBACK)
One of, if not the best war game of all time. Cold War Crisis on its own is incredible. When you add Red Hammer and Resistance into the mix it breaks all expectations.
The mpst annoying thing, though, is that sometimes the target system in tanks and helicopters would not work and there was no way of you hitting your target.
Wow, can't belive this is 9 years old. Production values are so modern. You were ahead of your time.
Following your advice, I bought it, and honestly it was a REALLY good idea. It gave me ARMA nostalgia playin' it while ARMA 2 didn't, even tho I only played ARMA 2 in my childhood (w.t.f. ?). I thought I would play it like 10 hours and then leave it (79 cents is not a big deal) but I found myself actually WANTING to play it. The editor is really cool too. THANK YOU PHILIP !
Oh man, this is truly the most important game of my childhood. I first played it when I was like 7, never made it past the fifth or something mission, and still spent hours dicking around in the editor and replaying those few mission over and over. Then I reinstalled my computer and for some reason didn't install it afterwards. Skip many, many years, and week ago I found the old DVD with this when I was cleaning my room. Surprisingly it worked, so I installed the game. And... just... the nostalgia was so overwhelming. Such a unique and unforgiving game with a wonderful atmosphere. Fuck the convoy defense mission tho.
The protect the convoy mission is kinda easy when you clear out the area with a M113 and just sweep the roads. Idfk i think im just lucky that RPG bitch didnt shot my M113
It's sad they no longer have games like this :(
***** The Arma series are made by the same people who made this.
2kliksphilip i can only run it on low
***** its a toaster with 2 slots
***** Project reality :3
+2kliksphilip lol
This game was something else - I remember the trailer had some tag line like 'fight, run, hide' - it was literally a game that allowed you to do that. I remember the adrenaline of that mission where you are a POW and escaping into the night and not knowing whether a shot would ring out and strike you down.
Spent countless hours in the editor - loved making set piece staged battles especially. Try and hold Malden from a massive Soviet combined arms assault. What a game!
My god... I remember playing this shit back in the day... When I started playing DayZ SA a few months ago, I never even considered that it originated from this... now I have found this out, I am so exited & happy for the developers that they are still working with the foundations made by this game :D
talk about messing up in the editor i was convinced i could lift an LST straight up by using satchel charges....
a few(15) dried up ammo crates later it did fly in the biggest explosion ever, so large i had to run to the other side of the desert island just to not die from it but damn that was worth it!!!
Good ol' times. This game has a place in my heart forever.
I played OFP as a child. That game was awesome, remember this fear when you heard incoming tank or helicopter. Many good memories with this one including dlc's Resistance and Red Hammer. Own mission editor was for me real sandbox with limitless oportunities
That mission when you tried to get to that resistance castle on the mountain was terrifying. I remember my entire rebel squad getting wiped out after we got out of the truck, and I had to make my way to the camp by myself. I was so scared as I got shot at and didn't even have anyone to point it out. That was the best experience of nonlinearity I ever had; proabably more than after morton
OFP - best game and FPS ever
there is so much truth in this statement! there are pictures in the family album with me in the background aged 8 playing this game on an oldschool windows 98!
OMG im 12 and i remember playing this game a few years back when i didnet know anything about pc gaming i think this might even be my first pc game i sucked so much but the nostalgia this video gives me and the memories are just amazing!!!!! thank you so much philip for reminding me of this amazing game
Skoular Lastname Relax im not the typical 12 year old ;)
potato owner me too. I'm just a normal 12 year old. :D
Skoular Lastname How would you know?
Skoular Lastname You can tell he's a normal 12 year old by his good grammar. :)
Janko Mudrak So i'm normal but not typical? ;)
Oh boy - just hearing that music at the start of the video brought me back to those islands. 20 years later I remember them so vividly.
Wonderful game.
These type of 2kliksphillip videos are my absolute favorite! I re-watch them all so much!
Optimal review for this game. Pretty much hits every spot, as I've grown up with it, too.
Best czech game ever (mafia too)
Also Vietcong with its immersiveness and attention to detail and Hidden & Dangerous with tactical planning.
Two legendary games
Euro Truck Simulator is pretty good also :)
I played Vietkong as a kid and couldnt get pass one mission with tunnels, I tried everything..
Kingdom Come: Deliverance is also pretty awesome... The Czech seem to have some very talented game devs :)
I picked this game up when I was 9, in a local charity shop for just 43p. Little did I know that it was the godfather of my favourite open-world military simulators; Arma and from that DayZ, that I hoped I would one day play in a world where I was no longer confined to a windows Vista machine with a 30GB HDD and 512MB of RAM. The radio noises would irritate my parents, and the off-story mission that pitched the US against the USSR would crash my computer, if I didn't die in the first two minutes of course. I loved this game, and I loved the mission creator even more, marvelling at the difficulty I encountered while trying to take off in a sesna light aircraft and trying to populate an area with enough enemies to have fun with in a russian tank. I could never figure out how to get that huge ship to move.. I honour this game above all others.
All you say about OFP is absolutely true and I feel like I have experienced the same heart-hitting impcat this sim had on my life like you !
I still have a staple of burnt CDs containing self-written missioins, downloaded ( and modified) mods, and lots of tools to hamper around with all thos files of which every mission consisted. In retrospective I'm sure I've spent most of the time in the editor trying out gear and code - what fun it was !
I continuously found myself alt-tabbing in and out of the game, having 15-20 different text-editor windows open where I would tweak all kinds of data regarding weapon load-out, behavioours, conditional events and such - my screen was mess and I loved every bit of it !
When the demo for OFP was released it immediately had me hooked - it was the fulfillment of my wildest dreams of what I wished for from a computer "game"; it was so much more than just "a game" !
I still love it !
After I got to know the ARMA series, I never felt like playing Call of Duty or Battlefield again for example. I don't even know how long it took me to play this really incredible game franchise... This is very good even if it borders on perfection! GREETINGS FROM BRAZIL.
There's a mod for this game called Operation Flashpoint: Retaliation made by Russian dudes. It's really good. They voiced it and made a lot of cutscenes, it tells the alternative story of Averon.
do you have it? I couldn't find it
I remember how impressed I was when I played a magazine CD demo of Op Flash for the first time, it was, as you say, as if they'd skipped ahead of the speed at which the FPS war game genre was evolving and created something that was totally revolutionary. There I was, a real, vulnerable soldier walking and travelling as part of a large group, following orders and only glimpsing enemy infantry occasionally. The journey in the truck was itself a revelation, and I was hooked at that point. The demo had you get into a truck with other troops, it then drove along a road for a while I think before going up the grassy slope of a hill. Just before the crest the order to dismount was given, from where the unit proceeded to go over the top and began to walk to the bottom of the next valley where a hamlet was situated. Hearing orders, seeing AI comrades running alongside you, hearing the crack of enemy shots but not seeing the foe most of the time, it was absolutely thrilling. Then the BMP or BRDM turned up, and we were ordered to retreat and did so with eagerness because I knew me - and my AI comrades - were vulnerable, hastily running back up the slope, and I think that's where the demo ended. I had greatly enjoyed the outdoor environments of Delta Force 2, but with Op Flash I knew I had found the game which would render all other war games second rate, lesser experiences no matter how glossy their graphics were.
Man I am 41 this year and started again to play Operation Flashpoint. It was a very important part if my life back to 2002. And again I enjoy the same after al those BFs CODs etc.. I am still there stucked in the forrest after Montignac..
Remember playing this When i was 3-4 years old. the game was a bit scary however it was fine with having some AI squadmates. my dad would create a capture the flag missions. with tanks supporting it. the AT guy ai would 90% take out the tank so i never worried after a while. future skip after turning 5 and numorues tries i actually onces managed to defeat the 20-30 people defending the flag or so i thought however the action menu was to advanced for me all i knew was move and shoot ;P so inveitibly one Ai snuck up on me and shot me in the back of my head. good times as a Child i say.
3-4 years old? this is a bit hard to believe, at least with 3 years xD
The cursor/follower crosshair in this game actually works REALLY well for flying. I hate that they removed it from the other games.
They have sorta re-implemented it for arma 3, when driving and using the mouse to steer you get a cursor to show you where the wheel will turn to. I don't think it's as good as it was in OFP but it's much better than what arma or arma 2 did.
Slowest conversation ever, but yes. I honestly don't know how and why they fucked that one up.
@@theothertonydutch i guess its because of "realism"
Alright, you are one of my fave TH-camr now. You really got everything. OFP and Arma also are/have been a huge part of my life.
Just installed it after not playing it for about 15 years. The nostalgia is immense.
why do I watch this review so many times
IKR
I don't know about you but as for me I keep coming back looking for more players to join our community "Save OFP From Dying". We play multiplayer games everyday and we have a discord server to communicate while playing.
@@MIMPOYACE woah, this still going?
I’m back my friends
Never will forget
I always had that "you are playing it wrong, you surely do something wrong!" feeling while playing it. Because it was so hard. I had problems with friendly fire (from my side) und such. And when my fireteam A.I. partners shot the enemy down without me shooting one bullet (hiding somewhere!!), I thought "wtf why did I won the mission??" But that didn't stop me from loving the game. Sadly, all my friends played other games, like CS.
Incredible how you keep doing videos with the same high quality for a long time...
Was just taking about this game tonight! One of my favorite games of all time!
OFP was THE game for me. No other game has EVER recreated the terror of hiding from a Hind or Shilka. Even having just barely 30fps didn't bother the immersion and pure joy of gaming. Nowadays I get bitchy if my fps drops below 144 even for a second. How times have changed. How I have changed.
did you ever do the sniper mission? well, you could sneak up and kill the Russyan generals at close range but tanks were patrolling so i used long range sniping then had to hide in forests.
I play it to this day :D My childhood was better with this game :))
The OFP my best game EVER! In 2001 it was THE BEST simulator of war! In additions, best music, amazing campaigns! And thousand additional mods and missions! And of course its nostalgia. I love you, OFP!
This was my childhood. Also I gotta say as a kid who did not speak English it was fun as an extra challenge to press every button and learn just from experience instead of knowing what it was from reading it. The map editor was the place obviously, but it still amazes me in a way how much I learned as a kid just messing around in it. I think I could do pretty advanced stuff, or for a kid anyway. Just proves that with time and effort you can accomplish so much.
Loved it back in the day, and still play it today :) downloaded 1985 campaign to Arma 2 as well...
same!...but does ARMA 2 really have full lenght campaing of the original OFP??? I thought that project/mod was never finished, really got to try that out one day! :D
yes full 1985 and Resistance campaigns just search CWR2...or Cold War Rearmed 2 for Arma 2 :) its freaking awesome...always dreamed somebody would overhaul good old OFP :)
SWFBIRKIN BEST GAME EVER!!!
I played with medium graphics (old potato PC) and I loved the game. The thing that I always liked the most in the game was the storyline, especially the resistance one. Rest In Peace Victor, and I hope Guba burns in hell! ^.^
10 years later and pillip sounds the exact same
I've played this jewel for... can't recall how many years. So many memories!
One evening I've started the single mission "Clean Sweep II" around midnight, and ended it around 6 a.m.! Fun fact: the time ingame was basically the same in reality; when the sun was rising ingame, first light showed up thru my blinds. I was... amazed, pleased, elated, and so flipping tired. But stayed awake the same (thank Heavens it was on a Saturday morning).
I`ve played ARMA but it just wasn`t that good. There was something about OPF that made the game so special back then. The 80s atmosphere or something...
- also the star map was pretty accurate aswell :D. I gotta agree this game is just amazing still, sadly after ArmA the online community all switched to that. Out of all games from Bohemia Interactive, OFP still has the best single-player experience in term of missions and campaigns not to mention all the user-created content.
I have always loved this game. You really summed it up nicely.
when i used to play operation flashpoint CWC with the resistance addon. i played the game nonstop, i even went as far as staying up all night to see how far i got through the campaign without falling asleep and when i got the game in 2002.. my only thoughts was WOW. this game is so addictive i could play this forever but sadly that all came to an end in 2013 when i could no longer play it anymore. :(
Mr. 2kliksphilip, if I have never saw this video, I would have never been able to go play my favorite game from my childhood.
Thank you.
Lol the soviet anthem at the end I love it
It's Russian bro, not Soviet.
It's the Russian anthem, not the Soviet
It's the Russian anthem.
"Bratskih narodov soyuz vekovoy" - Lyrics from the Russian Federation's anthem
ps. I speak some Russian
I remember that anthem was running while the game was being installed as well... just a few days ago I installed it again from Steam (Arma: CWC) and it took less than a minute, too short for a single playback even :D
Loved this review. Back when everyone was playing Halo 1, I was playing this at age 11 with all my current/ex military online friends. good times and thousands of hours of memories I'll always cherish.
I was a kid in the 80s and by the time this came out in 2001 I was about 21yrs old. I actually discovered this game back in 2002 by accident because I found a bootleg copy on the net somewhere and started playing it. So good I bought all the disc. Game blew my mind. Spent endless hours playing, programming missions,etc. So, I'm 38 now and not much time for gaming, but I still have it as one of my treasures.
this game is amazing to be fair
This game was insanely far ahead of it's time
I agree with how special it was. I bought my copy of Operation Flashpoint as a pirated version in a dodgy DVD shop in Sarajevo in 2002 when I was 12. We'd just driven from Serbia to Bosnia through lots of war-torn villages and playing OpFlash with its visual similarities to the Yugoslav conflict (landscape, buildings, weapons, '80s feeling) always gives me a kind of nostalgia for that trip because it was such an intense experience.
this game is probably the reason my friend and i ended up joining the Military
Even now when i'm apart of some major exercise and i'm in a massive firefight the cold war theme plays in my head
Best game of all time.
for me vanilla OFP is really nice but expantion-OFP Ressistance is much better. (in terms of campaign)
i dont even know what this means
vanilla Operation flashpoint means Cold war crisis.
Resistance is based on Czechoslovakia being filled with Soviet soldiers.
Resistance was brutally hard. Some missions seemed impossible.
Dreadnought Brutally hard? Not really. Sure, you die a lot, but it's not because the game is brutally hard. Practice makes perfect and in this game it's twice a true.
@@poryg5350that mission where you face off against like twelve soviet tanks is really hard, I have barely completed it by sheer luck
I remember playing g this as a kid. the cold and rainy forests, the drive and music. nostalgia overload!!!
When it first came out I literally played this until I passed out asleep, then as soon as I woke up I began playing it again until I passed out once more, for 5 days straight. That's how much I loved this game. One of the best games ever.
I downloaded this 2 days ago on steam, memories came flooding back, i got the game when it first came out and got my first graphics card to play it >.< Elsa Gladiac 511 geforce 2 mx pci. xD
Unsubbed..... and subbed again :) Operation Flashpoint is one of few great games made by our czech gold hands. I completly agree with you. My and my friend were also doing crazy missions in editor. I was making missions to hold some city, or just make city alive, with buses, cars people, talking to eachother. It was okay.. I played arma2 but i didnt like it sooo much. I hope arma 3 is better. But yea... OF is only one. :)
those are the same games , same engine , its even sharing some common content ! but yeah the OFP campaigns were totally awesome while the arma , arma 2 and arma 3 campaign will be easily forgotten !
No, engines are slightly different.
OpF Cold War Crisis and OpF Resistance share the same engine. However ArmA: Cold War Assault has a newer new engine, it was so new at one point that my old hardware didn't even run it properly. I had shitton of garphical glitches and it was running awfully. It did look somewhat better though and currently, you can even install ArmA: Cold War Assault on your Linux computer.
There is also a chance to run OpF content on Linux, but in that case you would have to copy OpF assets to your ArmA folder.
But I still miss OpF Resistance and installing ArmA: Cold War Assault is not going to bring it back.
This was basically High school for me. Love this game so much. Everything about it was a logical extension of the tactical shooter progression. Hiding in bushes, waiting for T-80s to roll by as you know you're literally fucked if they notice you was the greatest feeling. It was tense, difficult, made you think, and just felt epic. Just the fact that you're an 11 series stuck in a skirmish between superpowers made you feel so tiny. It really drove home your mortality in game.
Even the goofy outdated visuals, which weren't even that great for the time, have a strange charm to them. Such a brilliant game.
Man, I remember creating my first mission with the editor. Talk about exciting I was able to make units move by a trigger zone and such
Babies play COD, men play Operation Flashpoint
i played this game almost 24/7 back when it came out
I still play it on the fucking Xbox. :-)
Operation Flashpoint was for me one of the most immersive games of all time. I spent literally hours hiding in a bush in a forest waiting for the Speznaz to pass by for that one single shot.
awesome review! i loved this game... i remember the mission to destroy the convoy was really tough. no matter where i set the charges, the wave of attack afterwards always got me, but it was exciting. the adrenaline of hiding out while the enemy is rushing you was insane.