I thought I was going to see some more action with the Red hammer upgrade. After all, OPF is the only game capable of simulating a believable battlefield.
Well, someone did a mission called “Babysitting?†within the red Red Hammer campaign and for starters, OPF isn’t suitable for RAMBO mission like that. Teamwork is what makes the OPF engine so different, I have not yet seen any game more suitable for simulating teamwork and military believable tactics.
Anyway, the problem with the Babysitting mission is that I’m stuck in the “retry†position just after the ambush with the orders to find an alternative transport. My Russian comrades blew up the two cars nearby as well as the resistance truck on the road. The truck I arrived in isn’t working for some reason and the only one left working is a civil truck. Now, the thing is, this civil truck is LOCKED!! Very funny, and I didn’t bring my lock picking tools!? There are no other working transports nearby and if you leave the area searching for one, you will get mission failed!
I played the Red Hammer campaign trusting it with the continue feature that’s fully automatic. I don’t have any saved games to fall back on. I can’t finish the Red Hammer campaign because if this!
With missions like “Babysitting?â€, the Red Hammer campaign is without doubt harming the otherwise excellent OPF universe. I wouldn’t recommend anyone to waste any money on it! You can easily build better and working missions yourself using the editor.
This isn’t exactly giving hopes to the “resistance†add-on, as for what I have read about it so far, it will feature more “Rambo†missions. If I wanted this gamestyle, I would play Serious Sam instead!
If I were to spend more money on OPF, I would at least want missions possible to complete!
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I don’t have any intentions to flame OPF, fact is I’m a BIG fan of this title. It’s just to bad, official add-ons had to include poor mission design.