Operation Flashpoint

Red Hammer is part of Codemasters' upgrade to last year's award winning Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. Basically, Red Hammer is the same campaign as in the original, but this time around you play as Soviet solder Dmitri Lukin. Lukin has a story of sorts that unfolds as the campaign progresses, and I won't spoil it for you here. It's not War and Peace, but it's at least as good as what is seen in the original.

What happens when you combine elements of strategy, RPG. and wargame, then tie the whole thing up in a combination 1st person/3rd person perspective interface? A surefire recipe for a mess right? Wrong. Bohemia Interactive has defied the odds and done what so many other design studios have failed to do; successfully blend elements from multiple PC game genres into a stable, workable and fun game. Now let's get one thing straight up front; Operation Flashpoint isn't going to displace Combat Mission as a historical war simulation, nor is it able to compete with Falcon 4.0 as a flight simulator.