Operation Flashpoint is designed as a realistic simulation of the modern army. The game takes place on large islands where you have to battle an enemy force with a group of teammates. You can use a large amount of different weapons, including the AK-47, the M-16, hand grenades, a LAW, RPG and more.

Unusual about this game is the possibility to drive vehicles, such as jeeps, helicopters and tanks. You can take place on the driver's chair, or on the back with one of your teammates driving.

The game also supports internet multiplayer, wherein 2 teams have to battle each other in a large battlefield, again with the use of the vehicles, where you can annoy some real players carpooling in your helicopter by colliding with the earth.

When playing as normal soldier the game acts very realistic. You can't shoot properly when running, and when crawling you can't shoot at all. Also you walk on a very realistic speed which means it takes a lot of time to cross the landscape.

The landscape contains trees, towns, seas, roads and army camps, with everything on a very large scale. In single player you can also experience cut scenes rendered in the 3d engine. The game also contains speech and filmic music.

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Alternate Titles

"闪点行动：冷战危机" -- Chinese Title (Simplified)
"Операция Flashpoint: Холодная война" -- Russian title
"Poseidon: Operation Apocalypse" -- Working Title
"OFP" -- Common Abbreviation
"Flash Point 1985: Status Quo" -- Working Title
"CwC" -- Common name

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Part of the Following Groups

Merchant	Title	Platform	Price
	Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis
	Mastertronic OPERFLASHGOTYED Operation Flashpoint Game Of Theyear Ed. [windows 98/me/xp]	Windows	$19.00
	Operation Flashpoint Expansion: Resistance	Windows	$21.00
	Operation Flashpoint Gold	Windows	$11.95
	Operation Flashpoint: Game of the Year Edition	Windows	$13.99
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User Reviews

Options, options, options....	Viktor Kovacs (14)
War is not nice	Isdaron (694)
It looks like that you are the middle of the battlefield	Timber Wolf (4)	unrated
Another "realistic" First Person Shooter	Evil-Jim (154)
A comprehensive war shooter.	gilgamex (115)

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The Press Says

Svenska PC Gamer	Jun, 2001	95 out of 100	95
Eurogamer	Jun 19, 2001	9 out of 10	90
ComputerGamers.com	Nov 11, 2001	90 out of 100	90
PC Action	Jun 18, 2001	90 out of 100	90
Adrenaline Vault, The (AVault)	Oct 21, 2001		90
Kingdom of Desire	Sep 22, 2007	9 out of 10	90
GameSpot	Sep 04, 2001	8.7 out of 10	87
PC Gameplay (Benelux)	Jun, 2001	83 out of 100	83
Fragland.net	Sep 18, 2002	81 out of 100	81
Thunderbolt Games	Apr 03, 2008	8 out of 10	80

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Trivia

Operation Flashpoint was regarded to be so accurate that its developers produced the Virtual Battlespace Systems 1 (VBS1) - a version of the Operation Flashpoint engine for use by the military for training purposes. The first military customer for VBS1 was the United States Marine Corps. Its users today include the defence forces of Australia, Canada, Israel, New Zealand, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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This entry to the MobyGames database was contributed by Erwin Bergervoet (310) on Mar 29, 2001.