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[Review] Operation Flashpoint: Red River
Posted by Baba0Booey in Featured, Operation Flashpoint: Red River, Reviews on September 16th, 2011
Developed by Codemasters, Operation Flashpoint: Red River is a FPS military ‘simulation’. They were kind enough to send us a copy for review, and I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to give this game a once over. I can say, I’m glad that I had the chance to play this! So on to the review.
So lets start start at one of the coolest intro videos I have seen in a long time, it’s gritty, it’s humorous, and its got some facts in there about past issues, conflicts, and political unrest. They put quite a spin on it, the intro really had me hooked and I then became invested in the story. It has a certain style, to which I can’t name, but there are commercials that follow the same style.
F1 2010 Broken
It all seemed to be going so well and then bam like an engine blow out, a puncture or Mark Webber up the inside your race is ruined. After a hugely successful launch for F1 2010 (outselling both Halo Reach and Dead Rising 2 combined) It’s now spun off on the last corner before taking the chequered flag. Many players are experiencing severe game breaking issues, the worst being game saves, which are becoming corrupt…
We believe this only occurs if, after completing an R&D objective, you…
- Retire to the paddock via the Engineer (in the garage).
- Terminally damage your car and select retire to paddock.
- Get disqualified and select retire to paddock.
And provided a work around until it is fixed;
After a practice session where you complete an R&D objective and unlock a new upgrade make sure you then load in to the following qualifying session before exiting the game.
So at least you can load up your save files, shame then that there are many bugs wrecking your racing experience here’s a full list & video of all major bugs and glitches that have been found so far from Codemasters Forum after the jump Read the rest of this entry »
F1 2010 Launch Trailer
5. 4. 3. 2. 1. And they’re off! Here’s the launch trailer for F1 2010. It features collisions, Radio comments and more luscious views of F1 automobiles. Hit the Jump to see the TV trailer too, which focuses on being a the best driver in the world. F1 2010 is out this week.
New DiRT 3 Screens
DiRT 3 is, arguably, going to be one of the best looking racing games out there (CodeMasters has always done a really awesome job of making great looking games anyway). They recently released a collection of 5 shots from the game, which show a lot of the detail in the game, as well as the diversity in the tracks (something DiRT 2, at least, was lacking in).
I love racing games, and DiRT 2, in my opinion, is still one of the best off-road racers (though, RalliSport Challenge 2 might edge it out on track variety, but it appears DiRT 3 could take that away from them). Can’t wait to get this one. With older rally cars being a part of it (it was mentioned in a press release a couple weeks ago), I’d like to get my hands on an old Lancia Stratos, assuming it will make an appearance in there. It’s one of my favorite rally cars. Be sure to check a larger version of this picture, as well as 4 other ones, after the jump.
F1 2010 Developer Diary Video No.5 (Live The Life)
This is the final Developer Diary for Codemasters F1 2010 and features the career mode detailing the many facets of an F1 driver’s life. The car setups sound great with slight tweaks being all that’s needed to fine tune the car. I’m really hoping they have a Fallout 3 style dialogue tree for the paddock/interview areas allowing you to build your own reputation and smack talk other drivers. Secretly I hope you get the chance to chat up the grid girls, but then that might not be realistic assome drivers seem care about their car more… F1 2010 is due out the end of this year.
DiRT 3 in the Works! New Trailer!
If anyone has been watching the X Games on ESPN today, the reveal trailer for DiRT 3 was shown (I missed the trailer on TV, but I did watch most of the RallyCross event). The trailer shows off drive-by shots of some of the supposed tracks in the game (which blend into one another), and one of the new features seems to be snow, and the track variety seems to be kicked up a notch, which I hope is the case as, despite DiRT 2 being a great off-road racer, the track variety was lacking.
At the end, it appears that there might be a stunt arena of sorts, which would be pretty cool (the ramp in the background almost looks like the 70 foot ramp from today’s event, though). Given that, I wonder if they would have cross-over races like that in the game (1-on-1, with one person starting on one half of the track and the other driver on the other half, with both racers eventually crossing over and racing the entire track).
F1 2010 Handling Video and Screenshots
Another Dev Diary from Codemasters detailing their attention to detail in respect to handling in the upcoming F1 2010 due in September. I’m a little sceptical of how they can claim it handles realistically when it runs at 30fps, especially when you consider Studio Liverpool managed to make a decent F1 game back in 2006 run at 60fps… I’ve added the video after the jump along with some new screenshots, unfortunately they are still of 2009 season cars but the video does show some crashes and car damage in action.
First footage of F1 2010
This is a developer interview video but shows some pre-alpha footage of F1 2010, it’s all last season like the screenshots posted already but it gives us an idea of how the dynamic weather will look. Unfortunately there’s no video of crashes or any damage to know how that is. Lets just hope the game ios more exciting than the snooze fest that was the season opener in Bahrain last weekend…
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