Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has a release date. According to Eurogamer, it will arrive on the UK shores/airdrop into our cities/invade this country/storm our beaches/infiltrate British stores/come on RPS you’re better than this/go on sale on the 9th of October. To commemorate this momentous announcement, Codies have released a new trailer showing off various weapon types which you can see below.
It appears the game’s assault is beginning in the US on the 6th October, then plans to go into mainland Europe on the 8th, and then finally arrive in Britain on the 9th. It’s the oddest Risk strategy I’ve ever seen. I would suggest releasing in Australia first, getting the easily defended two extra units there each turn, and then perhaps taking North and South America before the risky and vulnerable Europe. It’s up to them, of course, but my dad would wipe the floor with them had he a serious tactical shooter to release.
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Interesting. Reading further into it it appears to be a distribution issue rather than a “we wont carry this game” issue.
Nope, neither Best Buy or GameStop will carry it. I didn’t get that from the forums, I got that through email from a reliable (as in: I know who he is) right here on RPS funny enough.
And I thought this was hilarious.
Forgot to add that I’m not surprised though. Trying to get a game into retail these days is a mess. Most retailers won’t even touch a PC only game. And those that will, want all sorts of concessions that in the end, it makes no sense to even do it.
I should know, we went through the same thing and I recently just gave up looking at shitty deals. Big announcement coming this week though, stay tuned. :)
Oh, if you’re looking to buy it before the .05 patch (you silly boy), GameTracker lists all the sites/retailers carrying it.
The animations looked so awful my eyes hurt
Wow…
104 comment thread discussing the virtues of trolls, fanboys, flamers and morons then SiUnit turns up.
Fuck me…
@ Howard
LMAO!!! Yah, its called progress. I think.
What other people have said about the dumbing down, so fricken true. I’m pretty sure everyone who really loved the realism of Ofp and arma 1 and 2 are going to be disapointed, or maybe not disapointed, I think most of us have seen by now that this game is not made for us, rather the bunnyjumping Battlefield 2 fans out there.
Zomg! I’s like battelfild 2 wiff bigger maps!!!
I think it’s gonna be a middleground, just too tricky for the bf2 tards out there, and too dumb for people who love realism. The only guys who’ll really play this a lot i’m thinking will be the guys who dig the tank maps in Red Orchestra. And that’s almost 25 people! (Btw i’m not bashing red orchestra.)