Blimey. These were brought to my attention yesterday when Jim twittered “These two videos are about the most impressive videogame spectacle you’ll see this month”. He’s not entirely stupid that man. Tim Edwards of PCG found them, and they show some of the sheer scale of the bloody thing. The first video’s the biggest aerial dogfight I’ve ever seen in my life. The second is a 1000 AI battle. ArmA2 is really looking like nothing else. Just look at these…
Ker-rikey.
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@Guhndahb -
Yes, for the ten millionth time. It was a player throwing a couple hundred jets into the map with the editor and then hitting “GO.” It was not an actual mission.
@Guhndahb:
*sobs*
As many other people have already stated, the first video is a bunch of Russian and American jets placed in the editor on a collision course and then watched by the player. It has nothing whatsoever to do with actual missions in the game. I would have thought that common sense, but apparently not.
The second video is similar in that it’s hundreds of AI placed in close proximity and again watched by the player (though in this case he’s a member of the US forces so can’t be a spectator so much without dying!). The difference is the land units have more time to react, so it’s more drawn-out and impressive as a battle than the jet vid. It’s still an entirely unrealistic and unrepresentative scenario.
Now please, anyone who has any complaints about lack of realism or anything of that nature in the videos, go search through the huge numbers of ArmA 2 videos on Youtube for examples of more typical gameplay!
My whole issue with Aram 1 and 2, is that they are capable of pretty awesome things, but they don’t do them in game. It has a lot of simulation, and not much gameplay. I’ve not played Arma2 but I have a friend who is making a mod for the series, and is always talking to me about it so I feel like I’ve played it. ;) I bought Arma 1 and was really disappointed, I don’t think I will get Arma 2 as I just feel that it’s too much of a hyper-sim, and the gameplay there isn’t fun (for me).
I’ll just leave these here…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nV5fxH2OdFU&hd=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCqHdzGFG6Y&hd=1
and some shameless spam of my own video, which is of an arma1 mod… :}
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_xetZxoB5M&fmt=18
Digit: I’d like to say you’re approaching it the wrong way. It doesn’t have a lot of “game” out of the box. BUT it has the tools to make just about any kind of game you want. With a good group of people and some time with the editor it’s riotous fun. Arma is to Battlefield 2 as Garry’s Mod is to Half Life 2.
@jackflash & Lh’owon: Sorry I riled you two. I wasn’t complaining, at least not in my head. I guess my remark was more vehement than I intended. I just meant that if it were real game play, I’d be disappointed. I suspected that what others had said was true about it being a test. Nevertheless, I’ve seen developers do dumber things so I meant it.
I love ArmA and ArmA 2 is a must have in my book. I’ve even convinced several of my friends to get it or consider getting it.
Wow is all I Have to say at these videos.
Here’s one I made last night:
or not….
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjTei0BiUP4
Why? Why’d you have to make it at night? Do you not see the tons of complaints above that nobody can see what’s going on in the night videos? All you can see is a bunch of explosions and tracers.
If you want dramatic lighting, dusk would be much better.
okey dokey, encoding now
Who knew? Night time is the new DRM.
the lightning effect was quite cartoony…i kept expecting a soldier to be hit by it and his skeleton to flash
As a spectacle this video is pretty amazing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePrwLMi1fyQ&fmt=22
Various scenes in ArmA 2 captured in very slow motion.
Totally unscripted, just happened to this guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EN1Y-SpcI1s&hd=1
For those wondering, the ArmA2 campaign is actually more reasonable in difficulty than OFP, and way easier than ArmA1.
Is the campaign based around plausible military situations? The thing I hated about ArmA was how the missions were straight out of something like Call of Duty 4, which doesn’t work at all in a simulator.
Slippery Jim, cool video. But i think the video’s author is wong. The AI didn’t suicide, the black smoke trail is a clue that the plane was already damaged.
@Jason – It’s not CoD4, but it might be Ghost Recon. After the first couple of missions, you end up as leader of Razor Team, a largely independent force recon unit. A few of the missions are effectively mini-campaigns, where you’re given an objective like ‘Find this insurgent leader’ and are given several possible intel leads, a civillian contact, and a transport chopper on call and are left to your own devices.
It feels pretty authentic for the most part, but you’re not a faceless fodder grunt like you were in OFP.
apologies for the delay, had to go to a wedding :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7jCGvlkXW4
Ooh curse you RPS now I want this game. I could stop myself before because I thought ‘well you know you’d never run it on your computer’ but now I hear people with similar specs running it decently. I hope there is a demo so I can see if my comp can run it and how low I have to turn my graphics down.
@Dominic: those mini-campaign missions you describe… I’m buying ASAP. Lovely.
Impressive, but all the talk of bugs makes me think I’ll wait until they’ve been ironed out.
Surprised Dslyecxi was the only one here that picked up on “secondary explosions = death” bit. Also, enemies you do not see but can see you are going to shoot you. I am pretty sure it is like this in other games with the exception that shooting you only results in losing some health so you can go hide behind a wall or wooden box to regenerate your health, presumably using some regenerative nanobots that all main characters seem to be getting these days.
Normally you would have other squadmates with you, and they will (or should) be looking in the directions that you aren’t, so as to take out enemies to the flanks and such. If you’re alone either something’s gone terribly wrong, or you’re stupid, and you’re going to get shot, especially if there’s hundreds of enemies closing in on you. What do you expect?
@IdleHands: The demo is scheduled to be released either the 15th or 16th (that’s pretty much today or tomorrow if it’s late)
Hmm, was looking forward to this, but the AI bugs are making me think I should wait for another patch; is there any announcement from the devs that such a patch is in the offing?
P.
@Oceanclub: Bohemia say they are making 1.02 (or it’s being released soon)
Don’t worry about patches, Bohemia continues to support their games. The bug-ridden Arma at release is now a playable game after many patches, one of them being the beta 1.16 patch which was released a while ago (keeping in mind -while- they were working on/finishing ArmA2)
I wouldn’t worry about it. Though, if you’re so worried about bugs I would wait a few months before getting the game.