12DOVE Verdict
Pros
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Realistic and beautifully modeled
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Challenging gameplay
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Modding
Cons
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Crash bugs
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Obviously not finished
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Pretty damn tough
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Combat Operations is a soldier sim. We see a boatload every year, but this one is special. This is the follow-up to Operation Flashpoint, the game that was so realistic it became a professional military simulator. The raw facts about ArmA tell one hell of a story: 400 square kilometers of island to explore, 30 different weapons, 30 controllable vehicles, accurately modeled bullet ballistics, a full weather system, accurate tides and constellations, pesky insects...
It’s the product of developers obsessed with getting things right, which makes their decision to release it in a clearly broken state utterly baffling. It’s playable and enjoyable on many levels, but level-breaking bugs, game-crashing bugs and pathfinding bugs mean you don’t know what level of quality you’re getting from one mission to the next: will it be the astonishing military sim, or a comedic run around?
More info
| Description | Fight over 250 square miles of wide-open territory, in this ultra-realistic war simulator. |
| Platform | "PC" |
| US censor rating | "Rating Pending" |
| UK censor rating | "" |
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