ARMA 2

When i bought this game home from the shop, i pictured it as being another ordinary shooter. This game was not any ordinary shooter, it was something that really took a very large step ahead in war games and first person shooters. I started playing a co-op game with a few friends online, and i was amazed, the stunning graphics, the attention to detail the developers made, the vehicles that were available, and one of the biggest things i noticed of all was the freedom. Those who would say that battlefield games have freedom, compared to this, battlefield is like solitary confinement. I had so many different pathways i could take at approaching this mission, i was just overwhelmed. Time ticks by as we get towards the battle and suddenly we get hit out of nowhere! It sounded like a something exploded that was in the room with me, the realism was undefinable. Until it was later explained to my knowledge that i realized that the AI had planned what we were doing, surrounded the car, attacked us, then took us down as we legged it from the car.

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Well... on the negative, there are a few random bugs and crashes still found, but each patch they release, you see the bugs getting ironed out at the same time, which is a positive, and you can see that the developers are really working hard at the patches as well, considering it has only just been released, and 3 patches have already come out. The modding community are also actively working on the game, with one of the newly released missions "When i bought this game home from the shop, i pictured it as being another ordinary shooter. This game was not any ordinary shooter, it was something that really took a very large step ahead in war games and first person shooters. I started playing a co-op game with a few friends online, and i was amazed, the stunning graphics, the attention to detail the developers made, the vehicles that were available, and one of the biggest things i noticed of all was the freedom. Those who would say that battlefield games have freedom, compared to this, battlefield is like solitary confinement. I had so many different pathways i could take at approaching this mission, i was just overwhelmed. Time ticks by as we get towards the battle and suddenly we get hit out of nowhere! It sounded like a something exploded that was in the room with me, the realism was undefinable. Until it was later explained to my knowledge that i realized that the AI had planned what we were doing, surrounded the car, attacked us, then took us down as we legged it from the car.

More on the game itself now,
Well... on the negative, there are a few random bugs and crashes still found, but each patch they release, you see the bugs getting ironed out at the same time, which is a positive, and you can see that the developers are really working hard at the patches as well, considering it has only just been released, and 3 patches have already come out. The modding community are also actively working on the game, with one of the newly released missions "Cheranus Life" a very good civilian, police simulator.

Overall i am giving this game at the moment a 8.8 , reason being not everyone is the target audience, it is a lot of a strategy game, not so much fast twitch shooter. But to the audience it does target, all i can say is buy this game, it will change the way you look at war games forever!!! But for those not too sure, wait for a few more patches to get released, there is a bit of optimizing yet to be done, and a few bugs to iron out, and a bit of thinking time for you to decide whether it is a good game :D

Thanks very much for reading this review, i hope you have enjoyed it as much as i have :D

this game is huge and i mean huge, none of this takes 2 real time minutes to walk 10 k its in real time so it takes forever to simply walk somewere this game also features the most advansed npc's i have ever encounterd i am truly amazed at this game was worth the money.

In ArmA 2 a staggeringly vast array of military hardware is at your disposal. 73 modern weapons, 167 vehicle variants in the air, on land and at sea. The unique AI think and act independently, changing tactics on the fly. No scripts. No pre defined pathways. ArmA 2's AI share information, communicating with each other to hunt players down. They'll use cover and artillery, adapting to your actions and the changing environment.

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