How did you stumbled on operation flashpoint?

[Hasha 2]

Last year when I just got cable internet, I went to gamesdomain.com and downloaded sever game demos which include the OF demo and immediately fell in love with it. Actually the screenshot attracted me the most!

I got my ass kicked the first time I played the demo mission but on the second try, I told myself: This is no average low-brain cell FPS and re-organized my strategy and won!! I really learned ALOT from OF!

From that time, I followed the development of OF closely untill the final release date and immediately bought it!

This is the first time ever I really spent money to buy a game! It is my best investment ever! Share your EXPERIENCES GUYS!

[FetishFool 0]

An old friend, [Killswitch], spoke highly of it one day.

Then I went to search for it, and got the demo from FilePlanet.

My squad got it's ass kicked the first few times, but then I realised that I needed to kill most of the enemy before my squad even engaged, in order to win.

You have no idea how frustrated I got because I kept getting ordered to go back to base because my squad was wiped out.

Then we retreated anyways because enemy armor was approaching.

[Guest]

I was bitching about the lack of a modern day shooter to a friend and he mentioned that he heard something about an upcoming game called Flashpoint and that it was about the cold war. Cool, I thought and forgot all about it. This was in december 2000.

About six months later one of the guys in my team in Kosovo installed the demo on our laptop, and I was hooked. As soon as I got home (july) I bought a copy and the rest is history

[Tovarish 0]

A friend pointed it out to me when it came out, he was very much into Tribes 2 and he thought this would be cool. Ironically he hated OFP and I fell in love with it

[LordZach 0]

dad told me about the demo a few weeks after it came out

[Jester983 0]

My friends went out and bought the game (not even knowing what it was) then told me.

[Warin 0]

Heard about it before it was released...

Had a friend that bought it the day it came out. He loved it. Except he's a total lamer, so I assumed it was stupid.

Fast foreward to late February.

I was really really bored and wanted a new game, and was in the mood for something with a military bent. So I grabbed it. And now I am hooked on the damn thing!

[USSoldier11B 0]

I got OFP as a Christmas present. I had no idea what it was until I installed it. Wow! Of course I was frusterated as hell with it at first because I kept dying right away and couldn't fly worth a shit. OFP caught on pretty slow here in the U.S. and I would have bought it much sooner if I had known about it. Hell, we were anticipating Ghost Recon last spring. BIS and Codemasters needed to market more agressively.

[Guest]

.. I should add that of ten ppl sharing the laptop, I was the only one who liked and played OFP. The others were close to making fun of me, but they were afraid I would kick their asses

[Tovarish 0]

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Definitely, it really seems like most of us actually "stumbled" upon it . To think that I almost didn't even hear of this game! BTW, believe it or not, the reason my "Hooked-on-Tribes-2" friend didn't like OFP was because it was "too real"

[Aculaud 0]

Interesting. Back when i was a sniper in DF:land warrior, i was constantly looking for something better. Me and a friend of mine tried a few things including R6:Rogue Spear. At one point, I was chatting with him and he mentioned that he thought some game called Operation Flashpoint looked pretty cool . He sent me the URL of the page he was looking at, and i got mildly interested by some of the screenshots. At first, i was skeptical. I thought, "Eh, this looks too large and on too big of a scale to focus on what i want (Which is sniping)." The demo, quite honestly, didnt do a whole lot for me either. I was getting single shot take-downs at 300m with an M16 which was kinda cool, but without a sniper rifle, it was kinda lost on me.

What really got me going on it was the official trailer i got from the OFPN site. I swear, i watched that thing over and over and over and over......And then i got the game, and it was everything i could have hoped for. And resistance will add on to that even further

[Guest]

Yeah, the trailer was utterly cool. Now that you mention it I remember that I saw the trailer before the demo. I remember that I loved the way tanks moved (I still do).

[Grey Fox 0]

I first saw this game after my friend Aaron had bought this game at Best Buy 'cause the cover looked good. He tells me to go over his house to see Flashpoint. The first thing that really facinated me besides realism and squad level fighting was the satchel charge  and UAZs I hope resistance will be everything we've hoped for

[Pukko 0]

One of my brothers called me in early April 01 telling that he had found this great demo of a modern infatry game where you would drive a jeep commanded by a officer; and further more the 'world' was supposed to be outstanding with real sun and star modelling etc...

Download this movie he said - done; I clearly remebered that I fell in love with the sequence of a T-72 rolling down a slope at high speed - "Hey, that looks awsome" I thought; looking at the 'mud smoke' and the fact that not only did the tracks move at correct speed compared to the ground, the 'track wheels' were also moving like they followed an uneven terrain!

After downloading the demo right away (and lowering the priority of the essay I was supposed the write), I played the demo with different 'demo missions' at all time I could spare until June 20:th when the game was released.

OFP has given me a whole new perspective on computer games - losing interest in most other ordinary strictly scripted games. I have tried out Max Payne and MOHAA since; I really felt like I wanted to puke on them - I was really pissed off, and thought like "how can they make such cheap games today, and expect someone to PAY for it?"; I really felt like a prisoner in a tiny scripted world in those games - would probably have more fun starting up my C64 emulator.....

[SFG 1]

About 15 months ago, i heard about it. Have been hooked ever since, heck i got it inported in june

[moerty 0]

i heard about it in the counter strike forums when an eternal debate on realism was going on. someone suggested if we wanted realism we try out OFP, i did and i was hooked, now it's the only game i play, you can say i've upgraded.

[theavonlady 2]

I can pinpoint it to January 21, 2001 and this Delta Force newsgroup thread started by now-squadmate Uzi Ben Adi, one of the "OFP old timers".

[Iepers 0]

I purchase a copy of Computer Gaming world Magazine and inside comes a demo disc of all kinds of games. So after playing max Payne Demo and thought this game is to graphic for me and a bit stupid. i put on this game called OFP. So i am playing the demo and reliaze WOW this is some game. I thought in the past that shooters were Unintelligent (like i am really smart) and never gave them a chance. I was to busy playing Zues, Tropico etc ( not to say there bad games). Once i got the game, a day later. I never played anything else for Months.

Cheers.

[Tex -USMC- 0]

Saw the demo (when it first came out) and have been playing OFP in one form or another ever since

[ralphwiggum 6]

i really don't remember exact date like Avon, but i know it was monday before my GRE test(saturday). and yes, i did not do well in the test, but I got OFP

i went to EB. considering buying a new FPS. I did not like HL series for some reason. probably that bouncing thing. I looked around shelf, and OFP was there. wow. I tried to guage what the game would be like by looking at the box cover, and unlike other FPS, OFP had something. it was mysterious force that made me shell out $50(or something like that)

ever since i got OFP, i upgraded my PC. (just enough to play)

[WhoCares 0]

I had never heard of OFP before.

Late June last year I walked around the shelfs of a local store. And then I saw this Video runninng on the screens - 'Hmm, a FPS. Not bad. Oh, whole squads. Looks good. Tanks. Should I... Choppers! What's the name?!'

And it never left the drive since about 300 days (okay, I installed Red Hammer...)

[R. Gerschwarzenge 0]

I believe it was the beginning of the year 2001 when I was surfing around the net trying to find something interesting and I just stumbled to the OFPN site. The first thing that had my attention was a screenshot of soldiers and a Blackhawk. Then I looked at the other amazing screenshots and then I tried to find out if this game was already released. Of course it wasn't at that time and then I tried to find a demo. No demo either.

Almost every day I visited the site for updates, read previews, watched videos and new screenshots. I still remember when the demo was delayed for a couple of days. Those days felt like weeks. Finally the demo was released and I found myself running around the battlefield like a headless chicken. I couldn't even see any enemies until they shot me.

[Aculaud 0]

SO!................the mods are human afterall!

[USSoldier11B 0]

Well.......almost. I heard that the were assembled at BIS out of dead mods and spare body parts........(can you guess the allusion here?)

[theavonlady 2]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Aculaud @ May 07 2002,11:21)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">SO!................the mods are human afterall!<span id='postcolor'>

He said headless chicken. I take his word at face value.