Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is the man's man of tactical first-person shooters. This hardened sequel is a burly fellow, one that has no need for shaving cream, eye protection or seat belts.

It was tough reviewing this game. Despite being released some time ago it only turned up in my mailbox a week after the behemoth that is Activsion's

In short, the game sucks. Sure it looks nice and that but you'll just really have to like these type of games. While the game says: Walk around freely on Skirinka and fight everywhere you really find yourself dying or mission ending when you walk a click or 2 away from the objective.

I was one of those people who was on edge waiting for the new Operation Flashpoint to come out. I played the original in 1991 and it was amazing: an open battlefield where literally anything was possible.

However, if you can't cope with real life, feel free to enjoy the fantasy that is Modern Warfare 2 instead. You pansy.

In 2001, Bohemia Interactive Studio and Codemasters released Operation Flashpoint: Coldwar Crisis . Touted as a tactical shooter/battlefield simulator, it garnered critical acclaim for it's realism and artificial intelligence, largely due to its use of the Real Virtuality engine, which at the time...

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is a bit like the gaming equivalent of Marmite; you'll either love it or hate it. If you have three friends to play through the campaign with and/or huge amounts of patience there is a good gaming experience to be found.

This really is a great simulation, it is very realistic, but the graphics are pretty bad, and so ist the sound. The Order- System for the Squad members is also pretty annoying, on the PlayStation it is to slow and to complicatet. I suspect, on the PC Version it will work very well.

Something tells me that a lot of people are going to be surprised by Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Codemasters has loudly proclaimed that their new game will take players "as close to war as they'll ever want to get," but secretly part of me doubts whether most gamers will know what they're...

I found it very hard at first, took some time to get used to. I enjoyed playing online more than just playing the missions.