Operation Flashpoint 2 gets a theatre of operation! by
Jolex Del Pilar
Thursday, May 8, 2003
The new Flashpoint game will be based in Vietnam.
Codemasters, announced today Operation Flashpoint 2 will feature three different theatres of combat across Southeast Asia, Central Europe and Africa. The game’s mission-based campaigns will take PC gamers through fictional conflicts based on authentic events during the years around 1970.
Operation Flashpoint 2 is now in development at Bohemia Interactive Studio, the Prague-based creators of the original game, and will be published by Codemasters in late 2004 for the PC.
“We want to create a game set in realistic theatres, but not tied to any single historical event,” said Marek Spanel, the Project Leader for Operation Flashpoint 2 at Bohemia Interactive Studio. “The theaters selected for Operation Flashpoint 2 will provide a great variety of combat environments that draw players into a thoroughly believable experience where every element of tactical combat is important.”
An important part of the main campaign in the game will focus on events from the Vietnam war in the late 60s, when U.S. forces in South Vietnam numbered over half a million. Missions will have players engaging in solo action, commanding a squad, driving military vehicles, or taking to the air in authentic helicopters and planes. Weapons and military and civilian mobile units are being accurately modelled from period military data.
