Operation Flashpoint: Red River PC Review

If you’re looking for a COD-like experience then you better look elsewhere. Operation Flashpoint: Red River is a tactical military shooter that takes you to the boots of Sgt. William Kirby. The fire team leader of fire team Bravo. The plot takes place in Tajikistan. A fictional place where the remaining Al-Qaeda fighters retreated and attempted to make it their new base of operations. In Red River, you get to choose between 4 different classes before you start your mission. These are the Rifleman, Auto-Gunner, Grenadier and the Scout. The Rifleman is the adaptable member of the team. Why? It’s because his equipment has a bit of every class. His basic M16 and M4A1 can be attached with a sniper, or a thermal scope which is just like the scout. His M16 and M4A1 can also be attached with an M203 grenade launcher just like the grenadier. And his suppression skills are almost as remarkable as the auto-gunner. Next is the Auto-Gunner. This guy is the suppression expert. When it comes to missions where you have to hold the line, this is the guy you want. Ordering your auto-gunner to suppress and enemy position should pin the enemy down long enough for the rest of your team to flank, and kill them. And this is where the Grenadier comes in handy. When it comes to close quarters combat, never go without this guy. He is the expert in these situations. He has the best armor in the squad and also carries the highest amount of M203 ammunition. But, going close quarters can be hard without the Scout. The Scout is the dedicated marksman of the team. He can take position from long range to provide support. He can either tell the enemy’s position so chances of getting killed is low, and, he can also kill them with his sniper rifle.

So in Operation Flashpoint: Red River, you will find that each class has a role to play. And to make things better, you level up along the way! Leveling up unlocks more weapons and upgrades so every time you play, it’s worth it. The campaign can take around a long 10-15 hours to complete. Red River is not an easy game. If you get injured, your injuries will be a major problem unless you patch it up. Here, regenerating health never exists. You have to patch your wounds to survive. And patching your wounds can take some time too. If your bleeding (this happens when you get hit very bad) you are required to patch it up or else if you lose too much blood, that will lead to your death. Your teammates also receive wounds. And many people complain that they spend most of their time healing their teammates than shooting. Well, that’s because they need to learn a better strategy. My strategy when playing is that first, clear the area, and make sure it’s all clear of hostiles. Then, order your teammates to patch up the most severely wounded teammate while I heal some of the rest. This makes it 2x much quicker. Some people also complained in its predecessor, Dragon Rising, that sometimes your teammates would just get in your line of sight than accidentally cause friendly fire. In Red River, your teammates now warn you if they’re going to your line of sight so there is much less friendly fire. Another great aspect of the game is that each mission is a drop-in and drop-out which basically means that the level starts with your briefing either on a humvee or a CH-53 sea stallion.

Each mission starts with a quick briefing and ends with a debrief

The game also features “Fireteam Engagements” and “Online Co-op”. If you really hate working with AI’s then just get 3 competitive friends and have some fun in the co-op mode. You pretty much enjoy co-op mode much better rather than the single player since your teammates are much easier to co-op with. Specially if your just talking right beside each other. However, friendly AI’s in the campaign are good shooters. Scoring headshot after headshot. Am I sure? Yes. 100%. I investigated every corpse they killed and the blood is all over they’re head. While in Fireteam Engagements, your fire team, Bravo, will execute several missions. These include CSAR (Combat Search & Rescue), Rolling Thunder (Escorting a convoy), Last Stand (holding the line while facing a lot of PLA troops and having the freedom to evac anytime during the game) and Clean Sweep. (Clear all hostiles in the area).

Overall, Operation Flashpoint: Red River is a good game. But your squad leader, SSgt. Knox, is swearing all the time. And it really isn’t pleasing to the ear. But still, the game has good squad gameplay and gives that good sense of satisfaction after completing a mission. This earns Red River with a rating of 8.5/10. Every penny you paid is worth it.

Sniper: Ghost Warrior Video Game Review for PC

Sniper: Ghost Warrior, the latest City-Interactive game on the market. First of all, this game is absolutely different from all their other games. Why? One thing is that this game uses the Chrome Engine. Compared to games like Code of Honor which uses the JupiterEX engine. The game has new skins unlike their other games that use the same weapons and skins. The graphics of the game has also improved. The characters look good, your teammates move much more realistic, and the game is really fun. With everything on maximum, it looks like as if it’s real! Compare it to their other games like Code of Honor and you’ll see why.

Now let’s move on to the gameplay. The game has many missions which is an average length for average users. What makes the game more fun is the Bullet Cam. Whenever you get a headshot from a long distance, or just a very impressive headshot, there will be a short cut scene following the bullet, until it reaches your foes’ head. They also changed the way you heal yourself. Instead of automatically regenerating your health, you have to inject syrettes. You can only carry the maximum of five, so you have to strategically think when to apply it. Whenever you are using sniper rifles, it isn’t easy as it sounds. When you look into the scope you will see two new bars on the screen. One of it shows your breathing, so don’t expect to get a clear shot if you sprinted all across the area. The other bar indicates the wind direction. So pay attention to the small red dot that indicates where the bullet will go. A new inventory is the throwing knife. With five of these babies, and the ability to pick it up again, it adds more fun especially on stealth missions. There is also a bar indicating your stealth. If the bar goes red, that means your covers blown. However though, there are some missions where there are glitches. Missions where you have teammates somehow glitch. In what way? Like for example, you died, the next time your teammates just hold their position and never advance. I figured that our and tried my best not to die and it turned out very well. Good thing your teammates work with you all throughout the whole mission but not in every mission do you get to have teammates.

Now the story line of the game is alright. Surprises are one of the main reasons that extended the campaign missions. For an overall rate, I’ll give it 8/10. The game has very good graphics, but the glitches are annoying but still, don’t forget to give it a try!

Code of Honor 3 - Desperate Measures Game Review

Code of Honor 3, another City Interactive game released in the year 2009. Compared to other City Interactive games like SAS Secure Tomorrow, this game has a different approach and a much, much more improved graphics making the gameplay more intense and action-packed. Well let’s start with the graphics. The graphics of the game is jaw-dropping. The environment details are very good like in rainy environments your surroundings really do look wet, and the animations have been improved. They somewhat used the same skins on SAS Secure Tomorrow, except with a few new weapons like the FAMAS. Just like their other games, your weapons can be modified anytime during the game. Now the characters have been improved and are well dressed and their faces look good now and their actions are better. Still, they need to improve the way they talk, it’s still not good.

Now this time they have a different approach to the game. Compared to SAS Secure Tomorrow, here, you still work with teammates but not in every mission in the single player campaign. It’s either you get separated or your squad mate get’s killed. Here, you work alone most of the time which somewhat made me bored. To make it a little bit worse, the entire single player campaign only has 9 missions which is short. However, they made the game more challenging by making the enemies much harder to kill, and the fact that you die very easily. Over-all I’d rate this game 6.5/10. So even though the campaign is short I can say that this game is still worth to try.

SAS Secure Tomorrow Review

Many people may not know much about City Interactive and their other games like this, but if you ask me this game is something you got to try. The game was released in the year 2008, and the graphics? Well, the graphics are amazing.

Now let's get a more detailed review, first, let's go to the environment details. Well, the environment details of the game are impressive and realistic. Now to the characters. The characters of the game are dressed well however they need to somewhat improve their faces and how they look whenever they talk. For a game released in the year 2008 you can’t expect the way they talk is like Half-life 10 years ago right?

Now let’s talk about the campaign. The campaign has 11 missions which, is most probably an average length. But for professional gamers the whole campaign can be short. The game is action-packed and less-demanding players should and are most-likely to enjoy this game. You have teammates all throughout the single player campaign, so you don’t get bored playing the campaign alone. Both your teammates and enemies are smart and creative. They will somewhat try to flank you as much as possible or pursue you. Good thing your weapon can be modified and equipped with a silencer and a scope which makes the job much easier. However, making a silent approach isn’t that easy because even when you kill the enemy with a silencer, he normally screams out loud and fire randomly then die which, alarms his buddies. The game has a very good story line and everyone would enjoy it. Overall I’d rate this game 8/10 and I also say it’s worth every penny.