The AI has been nothing but superb in my experience thus far, I haven't had any issues with them following orders correctly. I'm sure some issues will prop up for me, but wasn't ArmA 2 plagued with AI problems as well?

It is in fact the devs fault. That's why I said "it better be good." All the hoopla over how great this will be. Well in fact, it is just another shooter with pretty graphics. What dos it really offer that another doesn't?

actually the graphics aren't that good.. close up, lol... Just submitted my review for editing and posting... gameplay, especially co-op gameplay is where this game shines.

JMO

and JayTac... welcome to SimHQ, so how far you gotten in the camapign... tell me what you think of the AI after the first 4 or 5 missions... you need time with the game to really see the good and bad in it. (not saying you haven't played it, maybe you played it all... and if so, we got to different games. lol.)

Thanks for the welcome. I just tried to start a campaign a little while ago and it doesn't work at all, lol, how ironic is that... sighs.. Anyway prior to that I was mainly speaking from ~3-4 hours of gameplay commanding the AI in the single mission, some quick custom missions I made, and online. But yeah in my campaign it won't go past the first cinematic screen after the intro, it just sits there and I can't move my player. I tried restarting it twice and still have the same problem.

There's always going to be lively debate when you pass a console game off to PC gamers. I think my problem is, I was really expecting something close to the original OP.

Thanks

May I suggest giving the assault/defend mode a try if you haven't already? I was starting to become a little disappointed myself until I began playing more assault and less of the annihilation (which just turns out to be a BS frag fest usually). Assault/Defend is a lot of fun especially with the right group of guys. Those maps are a bit more open, objective based, and requires some teamwork and good tactics.

So it sounds like this is good game. Not a great one, but a good one. I can deal with that. I was so frustrated by the first Operation: Flashpoint. God, if I saw 'You Are Dead' one more time, I swore I was going to use the CD for a clay pigeon.

I realize it wasn't 'Quake' and I understood that perfectly, but I'd spend at least an hour creeping through a forest, trying to sneak up on an enemy and get blown away by something the size of a pixel. Or a guy on patrol who has no idea where I am until he suddenly and without warning turns around and fires 1,846 rounds through heavy brush and I get hit by every last damned one of them.

I know that's sorta how it happens in real life, which is a sobering thought, but I want to play a game, not learn a life lesson.

I'm not saying I want COD4, but I do like 'playing' a game. Any chance we can strike a balance?

pfunk

They hyped the heck out of this game and back making it sound like it was going to just blow the original OFP and ARMA out of the water. So imagine my disapointment when i open a OFP game box and upon playing it find out instead i have a console shooter. It's really all in the marketing i mean they got me to buy the game based on the name and the BS. They got me once. Not falling for it again. I'm sure alot of console gamers think the game is great, but it doesn't even remotely stand up to it's namesake on any grounds at all. The graphics are subpar compared to ARMA and the gameplay is a shooter on rails. Sure you CAN go anywhere, but why would you when you have a checkpoint you're supposed to go through every 200m.

Don't even get me started on all the realism issues. it's sad really that this is what the OFP name was reduced to. Like i said i'm sure alot of people like the game, but i think it's subpar and doesn't deserve the name it carries.

I have it for the 360 only right now and I am enjoying it. I have ARMA2 on the PC so I did not feel like buying OFDR for it until some of you played it. I enjoy it on the 360 because..... no bunnyhoppers!!!!
I am enjoying the campaign and usually will not follow the waypoints because it seems I die more often when I do.


Quickcord

I got this on PS3 and finding it a frustrating gaming experience. Sometimes you get stuck in 'checkpoints' that are insta-death requiring complete mission restart. Long load times and no player choice of checkpoint makes on feel that they really don't want me to play this game. No editor either on this format.

For the console @ 40 quid this game feels like a bum deal. It's a pretty game, sometimes less is more. But I can live without the dumb AI and staring at statistics and a load spinner for most of the evening. "You fired 0 SAMS, you suck, you will wait to die again. Your small arms hit count is laughable."

Something is wrong when you have a new game and you're always thinking about making more coffee while waiting to play it again.

It's ok but it's not great on PS3. I should have gone the PC route. Hit me.