Here's a link to the first review I could find for OFDR. The review tells what I was hoping to here, meaning that OFDR stays true to its roots as a realistic shooter. This is not your typical FPS ala CODMW. Thank goodness, the PC and console community have needed a game like this for a while now. Expect one shot distance kills. This will be a hard game to play.
Operation Flashpoint 2 Review
By Neon Kelly - 06/10/2009 - 10:16am GMT
Something tells me that a lot of people are going to be surprised by Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. Codemasters has loudly proclaimed that their new game will take players "as close to war as they'll ever want to get," but secretly part of me doubts whether most gamers will know what they're getting into. Call me a cynic, but I suspect that more than a few people will pick up this up in the mistaken belief that it's an alternative to Modern Warfare 2. Anyone who does this is in for a rude awakening, that's for sure.
The reality of the situation will be all too clear to anyone who has played the original Operation Flashpoint - or indeed Bohemia Interactive's spiritual successor, the ArmA series. Like its forebears, Dragon Rising is a brutally tough endeavour - the kind of game that forces its users headfirst into a meat-grinder until they've learned the ropes. This is no run-and-gun FPS: welcome to the realm of the realistic military sim - a world in which your game can end abruptly with a single bullet to the head, fired by a near-invisible enemy from a bush in the far distance. For much of the time you'll be flat on your belly, slowly wriggling your way into a decent vantage point that will let you open fire on that tiny grey smudge on the horizon - the enemy soldier who's trying his hardest to kill you. Operation Flashpoint can be a frightening and disheartening experience, but if you can endure the many hardships you may find a special kind of thrill - one unlike anything on offer in other shooters.
It's a great review, check it out here: http://www.videogamer.com/xbox360/operation_flashpoint_2/review.html
Here's a release trailer: http://www.gametrailers.com/video/exclusive-launch-operation-flashpoint/57295
GTA IV, Street Fighter IV, Left 4 Dead become Platinum Hits
Another review of Uncharted 2:
Perfect ten after perfect ten followed, with Uncharted 2 currently possessing a 97 in Metacritic's aggregation of review scores. Easily, it's considered the very best PS3 has to offer, and one of the best games of this generation.
The funny part about doing a review of a game this big is it makes you hypersensitive to anything that could be wrong with the game. After all the praise, it's difficult not to get your hopes up.
Starting the game, you find protagonist and Indiana Jones clone Nathan Drake in the middle of a rock and a hard place, as he is in a train car teetering over the edge of a snowy cliff. As the wind blows, the metal starts creaking and you need to escape... quick.
Read the rest here: http://www.gamedaily.com/games/uncharted-2-among-thieves/playstation-3/game-reviews/review/7840/2348/
Here's a few tidbits put together by Cheapogame.com: Gaming News
UPDATE: Found another review of Operation Flashpoint here: http://ps3.ign.com/articles/103/1031869p1.html
Here's another: http://www.electronictheatre.co.uk/index.php/pc/pc-in-depth-reviews/3217-electronic-theatre-in-depth-review-operation-flashpoint-dragon-rising
I'm amazed that News for Gamers aka N4G.com is getting beat out by little ol me when it comes to some of this news that's coming out. That aggregator needs a serious tune up.
It looks like back to back to back winners on the big name releases. ODST, OFDR, and Uncharted 2 have gotten really good reviews so far. As for me, I'm just buying all the cheap pc games I can find during the Direct2Drive 5th year anniversary sale. I still have no console since I've yet to get to my financial goal, sigh.
