Game:

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (2001)

Duration: 9:50

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Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis, the military game that started it all. Before OFP there were war games that had things like more emphasis on realism and large landscapes (Delta Force) and combined warfare (Wargasm), but none of them did what OFP did in it's time. When this first OFP demo was released, it redefined what war games could be like. Instead of small, linear and confined levels, OFP offered a trully large battlefield with a million different tactical options, fully controllable vehicles and aircraft and a striking level of realism for the time. A shot from a gun would either injure you so you had to crawl along or you simply died. In addition, the AI in the game was non-scripted, meaning it attacked by it's own intuition and it was also the first game to my knowledge to feature iron sights on guns. The collective gamer consciousness seems to kind of forget about this revolutionary game, which is a shame because before there were any Battlefields and Call of Dutys, there was Operation Flashpoint and it was doing things that still aren't common in military shooters today. The later ArmA games kept the fine tradition going but the originator of the "military simulation" genre is OFP.

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