Arma2

[Zappatime]

Yeah, I'm a big Arma2 fan and the mod community is prolific to say the least, there's some truely great addons for it. To my mind it shares many similarities with COD, it can look absolutely fantastic in certain situations, the vehicle models are very sharp, but at other times slow loading textures and dipping frame rates when the going gets hectic can dilute the enjoyment.

I'd say it runs quite similarly to COD in many ways too, in its vanilla form out of the box it probably runs much better than COD, but it does depend what mods you end up adding, some of the nice explosion and effects eyecandy can do serious damage to its overall performance, but there's such a wealth of stuff to go at its a case of try it and see. Very tweakable setup helps.

Its worth remembering that Arma2 is really a third iteration release, being an evolution starting with Operation Flashpoint> Arma> Arma2 and as I recall my experiences with Arma in particular were not good at the time, it didnt run at all well with the hardware I had.

Anybody who loves open ended simulations, great mod community support and powerful mission editing software shouldn't hesitate to try it in my opinion, its very immersive, and given time COD has every chance of being regarded in the same vein.

[whoarmongar]

If you like Battlefield or call of duty etc dont buy Operation arrowhead. You wont like it

Dieing "for no good reason", getting killed or outmanouvered by a skilled ai, not being able to just charge towards the enemy with all guns blazing, not caring if you die coz you can just respawn and carry on. You will just get frustrated that the game hasnt acknowledged you obvious supreme skill and capabilities and wont let you go on an endless manic killing spree.

If however you fancy a bit of simulated warfare where planning and teamwork lead to success, and mistakes mean your dead, play OA.

[Rattlehead]

Originally Posted by whoarmongar

If you like Battlefield or call of duty etc dont buy Operation arrowhead. You wont like it

Dieing "for no good reason", getting killed or outmanouvered by a skilled ai, not being able to just charge towards the enemy with all guns blazing, not caring if you die coz you can just respawn and carry on. You will just get frustrated that the game hasnt acknowledged you obvious supreme skill and capabilities and wont let you go on an endless manic killing spree.

If however you fancy a bit of simulated warfare where planning and teamwork lead to success, and mistakes mean your dead, play OA.

I can attest to that.

Now, while I love flight sims, I've never been able to get into games like Arma 2 or Operation Flashpoint.
I guess I'm too used to arcade shooters like Medal of Honor, Crysis, BFBC2 and games like that.
I appreciate what the sims are all about, but I'm too used to playing the arcade shooters that let me be the one-man army.

I bought Arma 2 because I thought it looked great, but it's just not my cup of tea. I might give it another go in the future, but right now it's not something I can really enjoy.

[el0375]

the only thing i want to do is to be able to merge my retail version of arma 2 + Operation arrohead. I need to run first the arma 2 as administrator, then install arrowhead, run as admin and then update?
Anyways i like it so much, although you need to spend serious tiem at familiarizin, this genre compared to COD is like comparing teh kindergarden with a high level highschool

[mazex]

Originally Posted by el0375

the only thing i want to do is to be able to merge my retail version of arma 2 + Operation arrohead. I need to run first the arma 2 as administrator, then install arrowhead, run as admin and then update?
Anyways i like it so much, although you need to spend serious tiem at familiarizin, this genre compared to COD is like comparing teh kindergarden with a high level highschool

I had the original ARMA2 (first DVD release by 505 games), then bought Arrowhead on Steam. When I started Arrowhead via Steam it immediately gave me the option to launch Combined Operations (and no, I did not buy the combo pack).