Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is an intense and realistic modern military conflict game that gives players the freedom to handle various military crisis situations on their initiative. The unscripted missions will task players with real objectives such as laying down covering fire, covering a friendly unit's retreat or conducting short-range recon patrol. Players will be armed with cutting-edge military hardware and will need to balance brute force with intelligent use of tactics.

Once players have completed the campaign, they can create their own single player and multiplayer missions using the Mission Editor. The game features unparalleled levels of realism and variety of military forces, equipment, weapons, and tactics. Fully loaded weapons and individual ammunition types are simulated with detailed ballistic physics based on individually crafted mechanics.

Players will command and control a wide variety of multicomponent, multiweapon vehicles, including tanks, infantry fighting vehicles, APCs, attack and utility helicopters. The character damage system authentically depicts the terrible wounds and injury from modern weapons to communicate the reality of combat.

In Platoon-Based Combat, players will fight as infantry soldiers in battle, drive tanks in armored assaults, pilot helicopters in air strikes, and infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives and rifles to machine guns, grenade launchers, and laser designators for air strikes. In whichever role the player chooses, they will experience the fierce and brutal reality of warfare and the shock and awe of contemporary firepower unleashed on the arresting scale of modern combat.

The game redefines the size of battle with immense play areas of more than 135 square miles, giving players a multitude of tactical decisions on how to best accomplish missions. Densely packed with environment detail and objects, valleys, mountains, coastlines, towns, villages, and industrial complexes all combine to deliver a rich and challenging tactical environment. The world is persistent, so that buildings destroyed in one campaign mission will be destroyed in the next.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising also features stylized cinematography, with camera work through cutscenes heavily influenced by television war reports that are often shot under extreme circumstances delivering a unique look with incorrect exposure, severe camera shake, and loss of focus. The game models the environment, objects, and people in realistic detail but embraces documentary techniques for its visual styling.