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Recommend me some military fps's
Inglorious Coyote
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Well, I beat CoD4 a while ago on my 360, and it was good, and I'm still enjoying the hell outta multiplayer, but I've still got the urge to kill some folks in service of my country (or, well, any country really). So I need some recommendations for good military fps's on the 360, preferably with a decent single player campaign.
I've played the first hour or so of R6:Vegas and liked it, so it's definitely on the list. I've heard both GRAW games are good (but should I get the first one first or skip straight to the second?), but after that I'm kind of at a loss. Looking around I see that their are a lot of military-esqe fps's on the 360, and I was wondering if anyone had any first hand experience with any others and could recommend either picking them up or skipping, stuff like MOH: Airbourne, that new Soldier of Fortune, or that America's Army game, or anything else.
I've played the first hour or so of R6:Vegas and liked it, so it's definitely on the list. I've heard both GRAW games are good (but should I get the first one first or skip straight to the second?), but after that I'm kind of at a loss. Looking around I see that their are a lot of military-esqe fps's on the 360, and I was wondering if anyone had any first hand experience with any others and could recommend either picking them up or skipping, stuff like MOH: Airbourne, that new Soldier of Fortune, or that America's Army game, or anything else.
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I like 2142 as well, don't worry.
Those games range from mediocre to bad. Try to find a copy of Operation Flashpoint. Or hold out for the sequel.
I'm just judging off of the demo so feel free to correct me.
Both of the GRAW games are fantastic. The second one immediately follows the plot of the first, so if you start with number two the plot may feel a little underwhelming.
ArmA on the PC is the successor to the Operation Flashpoint games, and it's pretty neat, if PC gaming is your thing.
Avoid the new Soldier of Fortune. It's a lame game made on the slightly creaky Call of Duty 2 Engine, literally of the "Kill Guys, Find Key, Open Door, Kill Boss" variety. It has bosses that look like normal enemies but just have a massive amount of hit points. That sounds kind of cool in a weird way, but it really isn't at all. I made the mistake of buying it, and although I had fun with it for a couple hours, it just wasn't worth it in the end.
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I'm pretty interested in GRAW, GRAW2, and R6: Vegas. But I never even looked at Flashpoint. I'll be staying tuned to this thread.
Now when I say "realistic", I say that from the perspective of an old, out-of-shape dude who's never even picked up a gun, let alone served in the military.
Playing Operation Flashpoint gave me an idea of what it'd be like if I got plunked down in the middle of a war zone: Long bouts of slow trudging through the woods that mixed fear and boredom, punctuated by panicked, wildly-inaccurate attempts at trying to shoot at something in the distance, followed almost immediately by me having my head blown open.
RB6 = Not quite as good but still a lot of fun. I have it on PS3 and the online quality sucks balls, I'm told it's better on 360 though.
I fucking loved Operation Flashpoint. I will fucking love Operation Flashpoint 2.
I guess it's not for everyone. It's not an action game, it's not what you could call a First Person shooter. It's pretty much as much a soldier sim as you're likely to get. Combat is often brutal and punishingly unfair on one side or another depending on how you do things, and just plain on how things go.
But when you get into it, it's really loads of fun.
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It is by no means an exciting game, though. The missions often throw you into combat, but the combat tends to be led up to by slow and boring patrols or long rides to the combat zone in an APC with nothing to do and no interesting dialogue to listen to like you might find in a modern set piece oriented game. Op:Flash doesn't try to present you with incredible set pieces or exciting battles or non-stop action. It doesn't even expect you to always succeed in a mission.
And then there's a great mod community which I believe is still active so when you've finished with the main campaign, there's a butt load of available scenarios and campaigns for you to download, many of them of extremely high quality.
And if you want, you can get into it yourself. It's surprisingly easy to learn and the utilities the game comes with are very accessible and easy to use and the scripts that drive the scenarios and cutscenes are both simple and very versatile and you can do some really impressive things with very little experience and practice.
If you really want something more modern and better looking and also on the 360, you can't go wrong with the GRAW games either. They aren't perfect (coming back to them, I always, always hate the controls) and they're short, but they are good military themed games. They're a lot more exciting than Op:Flash too. And start with the first one. The two play almost identically and it helps to be familiar with the story from the first.