kdjac 19 Posted May 5, 2013 http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2013-05-03-operation-flashpoint-retrospective Twelve years on, Operation Flashpoint is now known as Arma: Cold War Assault, and while a busy mod community kept the game active for many years, the subsequent Arma games have long since overtaken it. It's only natural that it should look so weathered, and yet I find those barren, angular vistas to be oddly chilling. I remember running across them, so often by myself, so often for miles at a time, and while I smirked even then at the game's eccentric music and gyrating soldiers, I knew that there was death in that distance. It might be a machine gunner five hundred meters away, a sniper even further, or it might be something much larger that would find me exposed and alone, a single soldier as helpless as any other when caught in the open.This helplessness was the true horror of war. Nothing had captured it before and, all these years later, still few have captured it since. good read. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icarus 12 Posted May 14, 2013 Good article. Sadly enough that page is riddled with Codemasters OFP2 comertials and there are no links for Arma:Cold War Assault :( At least I did not notice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
chaplainDMK 10 Posted June 28, 2013 He really hit the nail on the head there. ArmA's just don't capture that feeling of loneliness and hopelessness that OFP was throwing out like candies. Even when you were in command of a squad with APC's, you felt so scared something might go so wrong and you'd have to run away. I can't remember the last time I actually ran away in a FPS instead of just quitting and restarting. I always ran away with my blood pumping like hell. Ah nostalgia hits like hell. :D Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
