Comments on: Fog Of Phwoar: OpFlash Tech Clevers

By: Richard Clayton

Richard Clayton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:21:10 +0000

[Edit] whose = who’s

(I tried to ignore it but am way too anal about such things to let it pass… it’s been nagging at me ever since…)

Incidentally I think I will preorder… Play.com have some bonus mission of some sort thrown in. If it is totally inaccessible and tough I shall give it to my Dad who seems to breeze through the games that I give up on… retirement, eh?

By: Davee

Davee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:22:59 +0000

Also, no nice Steam download and price for me? :(

By: Davee

Davee — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 18:21:31 +0000

Looking good, this is probably a buy for me. But I’m a bit concerned (like somebody else commented before) about the movement, it dosnt look entierly right. Even more concerning – he was aiming and strafing at the same time, but the weapons aim didnt move an inch… Could result in firefights where you instead of standing still you try to run around as much as possible to not get hit. Hope this is changed before release.

By: Richard Clayton

Richard Clayton — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 16:44:01 +0000

Hell, I wish I knew if this was going to be any good! Preorder at Amazon just £17.99…

I don’t preorder without seeing a review on principle… but I’m REALLY tempted by this.

Anybody whose seen preview code: from what you’ve seen is it £17.99 good? (even if not £34.99 good)

By: Bogie

Bogie — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 15:39:42 +0000

Sod the smoke I want to see some massive explosions with bodies flying everywhere like in BF2!

By: Nick

Nick — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:36:53 +0000

So is smoke the new water (er, fire in the sky?) in terms of graphical things to boast about?

By: Sobric

Sobric — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 11:11:35 +0000

Wait what? Flexible multiplayer? I played OFP 1 from release on the PC and the multiplayer was terrible until 3-4 years of patching and community mods. The videos of OFPs multiplayer don’t show much yet, but I think it could be one of OFPs strongest selling points.

Secondly, OFP 1 had some pretty big islands, but I think that OFP 2s really is going to be much much bigger. I don’t have information on the original islands to hand, but Skira is meant to take 9 hours to cross on foot (although I imagine that is due to terrain rather than size), and 20 mins in a helicopter. The RL island it is modelled off of (Kiska) is 107.2 squared miles. OFP didn’t model its islands on anything specific, only loosely based on some islands from around the world, such as Tenerife.

Anyhow, this is all kind of pointlessly polemical until there is more of an actual hands-on with the game.

By: AndrewC

AndrewC — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 09:10:11 +0000

But…it’s…a…cube…

it makes me cry.

I’m just going to stick to fluffy-talk about how games make me feel.

By: Anton

Anton — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 06:49:23 +0000

He said that cube-maps are spherical, circular would be completely wrong!

None of it is tech-talk, mind you, it is all ad-talk, please-buy-me-talk. We’re all used to that, aren’t we? :)

By: paddytehpyro

paddytehpyro — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 01:07:38 +0000

The fog… oh man. If that rolls in mid mission and you can see it rolling through valiies and such. Do quite want.

By: Cheez

Cheez — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 00:00:43 +0000

Yeah bring on the sexy PR gals! “Buy this game. It’s gonna raise your dragon,” they’d say. Fat balding guy babbling tech just can’t hold the candle I’m sorry.

By: Dominic White

Dominic White — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:24:53 +0000

What blows my mind is that they’re trying to make features that were in the original OFP sound original and groundbreaking. The Xbox version (which, again, was a fully-intact fantastic port) was released in 2005.

Four years on, and they seem to have made the graphics a bit prettier but seem to have lost some defining features (body awareness, decoupling of arms/facing, editor in the console versions, flexible multiplayer). Remind me why this is called Operation Flashpoint 2 again?