The Evil Couch
05-27-2002, 01:14 AM
New York, NY - May 22, 2002 -
From Bohemia Interactive Studio, creators of the award-winning Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, comes the official expansion – Operation Flashpoint: Resistance.
Operation Flashpoint is renowned as the ultimate realistic war simulator that enables the player to control and command troops and squads along with land, air and sea vehicles. This official expansion introduces a new island environment with remarkable high-resolution graphics.
“Resistance expands the universe of Flashpoint with higher resolution textures and models to take full advantage of the latest 3D graphics cards, said Marek Spanel, Operation Flashpoint’s Project Leader at Bohemia Interactive Studio. “New gameplay elements extend the realism and feeling of freedom and we’re reworking the multiplayer code to make for an even more intense online combat experience.”
Enhancing the Flashpoint universe, Operation Flashpoint: Resistance creates an additional 100km2 island complete with industrial-style buildings and original landscape scenery. Thanks to the use of high-resolution textures throughout, the visuals will be much more detailed and dramatic than ever before.
The expansion also delivers a new campaign that forms a prequel to the original game’s plot and is set years before Operation Flashpoint’s Cold War hit crisis point.
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance casts the player as Victor Troska, an experienced ex-Special Forces soldier. Having turned his back on his military past, Troska has settled into a respectable civilian life on the island of Nogova, a short distance from the original game’s three islands. However, his situation changes when the Soviet force invades the island group and destroys Troska's idyllic dreams of a peaceful retirement. Reluctant at first to return to a conflict situation, he is forced to participate in, and then lead, the ramshackle Resistance effort, which grows up in response to the Soviet occupation of the island.
As Operation Flashpoint: Resistance begins before the US Army and its resources came to the islands, players have to scavenge equipment from whatever sources they can manage, which provides for different play experience to the heavily-resourced original game. All the events in the Resistance campaign are closely linked. As players progress through the campaign, the amount of equipment, ammunition and fellow soldiers persists from one mission to another. Tactical use of supplies comes into play as there’s no telling what lies ahead.
In addition to the new campaign, the expansion offers enhanced network code, incorporating an in-game server browser system and completely overhauled communication code for better multiplayer performance.
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance requires the original game to play and is set to launch on June 21st for PC CD-ROM.
From Bohemia Interactive Studio, creators of the award-winning Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, comes the official expansion – Operation Flashpoint: Resistance.
Operation Flashpoint is renowned as the ultimate realistic war simulator that enables the player to control and command troops and squads along with land, air and sea vehicles. This official expansion introduces a new island environment with remarkable high-resolution graphics.
“Resistance expands the universe of Flashpoint with higher resolution textures and models to take full advantage of the latest 3D graphics cards, said Marek Spanel, Operation Flashpoint’s Project Leader at Bohemia Interactive Studio. “New gameplay elements extend the realism and feeling of freedom and we’re reworking the multiplayer code to make for an even more intense online combat experience.”
Enhancing the Flashpoint universe, Operation Flashpoint: Resistance creates an additional 100km2 island complete with industrial-style buildings and original landscape scenery. Thanks to the use of high-resolution textures throughout, the visuals will be much more detailed and dramatic than ever before.
The expansion also delivers a new campaign that forms a prequel to the original game’s plot and is set years before Operation Flashpoint’s Cold War hit crisis point.
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance casts the player as Victor Troska, an experienced ex-Special Forces soldier. Having turned his back on his military past, Troska has settled into a respectable civilian life on the island of Nogova, a short distance from the original game’s three islands. However, his situation changes when the Soviet force invades the island group and destroys Troska's idyllic dreams of a peaceful retirement. Reluctant at first to return to a conflict situation, he is forced to participate in, and then lead, the ramshackle Resistance effort, which grows up in response to the Soviet occupation of the island.
As Operation Flashpoint: Resistance begins before the US Army and its resources came to the islands, players have to scavenge equipment from whatever sources they can manage, which provides for different play experience to the heavily-resourced original game. All the events in the Resistance campaign are closely linked. As players progress through the campaign, the amount of equipment, ammunition and fellow soldiers persists from one mission to another. Tactical use of supplies comes into play as there’s no telling what lies ahead.
In addition to the new campaign, the expansion offers enhanced network code, incorporating an in-game server browser system and completely overhauled communication code for better multiplayer performance.
Operation Flashpoint: Resistance requires the original game to play and is set to launch on June 21st for PC CD-ROM.