Armed Assault (PC Games)
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6 customer reviews
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Product Description
Brought to you by the creators of Operation Flashpoint, Armed Assault (ArmA) will reacquaint gamers with the ultimate in realistic, combat gaming.
ArmA features a new engine with a fresh modern setting and focuses on freedom of action and immersive complex environments, blended with a unique touch of total simulation, based on a technology used to train real soldiers around the world, including U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Army and Australian Defense Forces.
"We aim to again deliver the ultimate military simulation for PC, improving the successful gameplay formula of our debut PC game release Operation Flashpoint. It's refreshing for us to focus again on PC game development after years spent working on the Xbox platform and we work hard to make sure not to disappoint the expectations of the great community that built around Operation Flashpoint with this new game." explains Marek Spanel, director and co-founder of Bohemia Interactive.
In ArmA, players will be able to seamlessly explore massive environments (over 200 sq. kilometres) and combat intelligent enemies that try to out think and outmaneuver you. In ArmA it is important to preserve the lives of yourself and your squad members in the heat of a modern armed conflict. Jump into any of a large selection of available vehicles, including armored vehicles and aircraft.
Features:
Engine/Graphics
- DX9 Engine incorporating many of the latest features, including High Dynamic Range rendering
- Reworked lifelike animations.
- Fully streaming game engine allowing extremely large environments loaded with various special effects.
Environments
- Environments are richly detailed and varied.
- New huge sized battlefield (landmass exceeds that of all islands from Flashpoint & Resistance combined)
- New densely populated battlefield (approximately twice the number of objects on all previous islands combined).
- Dynamic weather and daytime simulation (including tides and star constellations)
- Ambient wildlife.
Gameplay
- Large selection of weapons and vehicles.
- Unique and proven combatant's AI.
- New island containing large cities with many different, fully accessible buildings.
- ArmA s campaign features a brand new story-line, with a modern day setting.
- Campaign s setting and events inspired by real world events, military strategies and political doctrines.
- Updated controls and command interface.
Multiplayer
- Large, persistent battles.
- 60+ player multiplayer (plus additional AI), players can join at any time.
- Unique game modes introducing modes of play not seen in any other game.
- Cooperative game modes.
Custom content support
- Open game architecture.
- Building on top of the successful Operation Flashpoint addon and modding support.
- Built-in scenario editor.
- Versatile object/vehicle animation system.
- Many useful scripting functions.
- Mission wizards enable missions to be played with any add-ons.
System Requirements
* CPU: 2.0 GHz Intel Pentium 4 or equivalent processor
* RAM: 512 MB
* Graphics card: Nvidia Geforce FX series or ATI Radeon 9500 series or higher (Pixel Shader 2.0)
* HD space: 1 GB (or more as needed for downloadable addons)
* Operating system: Windows XP or Windows 2000
Customer Reviews
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A game for more serious gamers
 Reviewed by Marc from Hamilton, NZ on August 27th, 2007
Very hard game. Make sure you have patients and some idea of tactics.
OFP with some new stuff
 Reviewed by Michael from Wellington on June 13th, 2007
Much like the Operation Flashpoint, the game hardly features the best graphics and features numerous bugs (thankfully a few less than OFP) It has the same gameplay, controls are a bit more fluid and the vehicles are still as annoying as ever lol.
For players who have yet to play Operation Flashpoint, then perhaps you should try that as if you could save yourself some $$$. For those that enjoyed OFP even with the bugs and such, then this game will probably be what you are looking for.
IMO this game lacks creativity, with basically the same armor units from the first and even the infantry looking the same. The campaign was boring with afew extremely nasty mission which seem impossible until you get lucky and a tank doesn't spawn where it should. Multiplayer can be fun, once most people pick up some good skills, as when i was online earlier, it was full of n00bs who got bored and started shooting stuff because they couldn't see any enemy. Alas the enemy patrol was about 100m away.
Mmmm enough rambling, this game is for FANS of military sims, not the battlefield series
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Totally awesome
Reviewed by Nick from Auckland on May 8th, 2007
Well i don't know why people with dual have problems as my Arma is patched up to v1.05 and work perfect on full tho me only have athlon 3200 and 7600GT.
Any way, the life is this game is MP which totally rocks! tho there are no NZ server :( hint hint :) there is no more of this stupid rambos, try it in this game and your will be a very dead rambo. This game is about team work and this is where it rocks and is a blast and keeps me going all weekend.
About the graphics, who really cares? they get the job done and in my opinion the vehicle and models look really good. and trying to compare it to Oblivion is dumb.
I do love Oblivion tho are very bored of it now, the world is what, a 10th the size of Arma map? so obviously they couldn't have super graphics on it otherwise the requirements would be huge.
Lastly there is so much in Arma that is huge, the tactics and depth that is available is unbelievable. Check this page out if you don't believe me: http://dslyecxi.com/armattp.html
Graphics = 4/5
Sound = 4/5 (no Hollywood gilts in this game, all realistic sound and timing. fire a rocket into the distance and explodes and there is delay in the sound like real life.)
Gameplay = 5/5
Multiplay = 5/5
Overall = Kick ass!
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Not good.
 Reviewed by Ewan from Auckland. on April 16th, 2007
I love military shooters and looked forward to giving this series a good run. Unfortunately this is a far from finished product that has been released too early and uses a dated engine with lots of bugs and a slow running section of huge maps. The same insane audio is still there with a voice blaring co-ordinates that make little sense. Oh did I mention the AI? They are happy to stand around gleefully whilst getting taken out!
On a system that plays oblivion and MTW2 at high specs, this game barely even loaded the first mission. My system has a dual core processor 2G of RAM and a 512M 7800GS card. This game has far too many bugs and is using an old engine. The graphics are last gen for sure, this isn't everything of course, however the gameplay does not make up for it.
Poor AI.
Poor audio for commands.
Dated graphics.
Hug maps and engine will drag your system out sloooowwly.
Save yourself the pain and cash and go get GRAW/2, or wait for the patches as this stinks...................!
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a blast
Reviewed by Nick from Auckland on March 21st, 2007
Ive played the import vesion and it damn awesome. pre order and can\'t wait for the nz vesion as it ment to updated and better then the euro vesions ^_^
The game is a blast (sry bout the horrible pun) and for ne die hard war fighter this game is recommended for them ^_^
Need work
Reviewed by Anonymous from Canterbury on March 18th, 2007
Have played an imported copy of this game and although I enjoyed it the bugs ruined the experience. Hopefully the patches help as I am a huge Operation Flashpoint fan.
Make sure you have a grunty pc to get the most out of this!
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Release date: 8th March, 2007.
List price: AU$89.95.
Catalogue number: 1515498.
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