"Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is modern combat in stunning detail. The game authentically recreates conflict in a 360-degree theatre of war, which enables players to approach objectives from any direction. On this realistic battlefield, where one bullet can kill, players face the fear and mortality felt by soldiers as they are challenged to survive the rapidly evolving situations of battle throughout the game's single and four-player co-op campaign."
"The island itself is beautifully detailed throughout it’s stunning 220 km2 area, with recognisable landmarks scattered throughout. The first mission tasks the player with assaulting the area located around a lighthouse (as a secondary objective), and many other such features exist throughout it’s landmass. The sheer range of terrain types is also fantastic, and more than simply an aesthetic change as with the knowingly bland Red Faction: Guerrilla. Skira provides Operation Flashpoint: Dra..."
"Set to deliver an intense, immersive and visceral military sandbox gaming experience, Codemasters today announced that Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has gone gold and will be available from October 9th 2009, for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC."
"On Friday of last week, Codemasters held a preview event for two of their forthcoming big-hitting releases, Colin McRae DiRT 2 and Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Hosted at the Courthouse Doubletree Hotel, just off Regent Street in London, Codemasters took great pleasure in revealing the depths to which Colin McRae DiRT 2 reaches in order to deliver a comprehensive and appealing Motorsport challenge, and the intense nature of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising’s authentic combat exper..."
"Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, the much-anticipated military shooter that marks the return of the genre-defining conflict series, breaks from cover today with the reveal of its visual identity and the release of a studio insight video. Showcasing the cutting edge technology that will take gamers closer to war than theyll ever want to get, the video is now available to view and download from www.flashpointgame.com."
"Facilitating an accelerated expansion of its development talent base, Codemasters today announced it has reached an agreement with Activision Vivendi to take over Swordfish Studios, the Birmingham-based games development house..."
"Summary of games on the list:
Age of Conan (PC/360)
Frontlines: Fuel of War (PC/360)
Sins of A Solar Empire (PC)
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Vegas 2 (PC/360/PS3)
Turning Point: Fall of Liberty (PC/360/PS3)
Fallout 3 (PC/360/PS3)
Ghostbusters (PC/360/PS3)
Tiberium (PC/360/PS3)
Operation Flashpoint 2 (PC/Wii/PS3/360)
Space Force: Captains (PC)"
"Gamers have been waiting a long time for Codemasters to get around to producing a sequel to Operation Flashpoint. The heralded military shooter developed an extensive hardcore following after its release in 2001, and while it's been a whopping six years since then, the company is finally starting to release more details about the ambitious sequel arriving late in 2008, Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising.
Developed on the internally-produced NEON engine, which recently powered DiRT, Operat..."
"Codemasters has announced it has a triple-whammy of new titles in the pipeline for 2008, including a sequel to Operation Flashpoint, an all-new game called Rise of the Argonauts and the latest instalment in the TOCA series. The latter, provisionally titled Race Drive One, will be based on an updated version of the Neon engine that's already causing a stir in Colin McRae DiRT and will take in locations from all across Europe, Japan and the US. In addition to the touring car races made famous i..."
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