Operation Flashpoint 2 Online

I think we are getting that little closer to release, I know the community is aware that operation flashpoint 2 will be released during July of this year, but it doesn’t mean the ofp2 community wont get access to some really nice screenshots. There have been many screenshots flying across the internet but its seems that code masters are ready to release more information in terms of media and so-forth.

It doesn’t take long before you realise these images are in-game quality, not your usual game art but actual in ofp2 in-game images! You can see the High dynamic lighting effects of modern day graphics along with high model details, I guess you could say its that little bit closer to actual playing! Not quite!

Enjoy!

Codemaster has recently become more specific over the release date of ofp2. Codemaster has released information to different review websites stating the release will be this summer.
“Flashpoint is currently slated officially as summer 2009.” said a representative from CodeMasters. They also said that Codemasters could not be “any more precise than that right now”.

The release of ofp2 was initially for winter 2008, but then a more realistic release date of the 1st quarter of 2009 was announced. Now, the release date has been pushed back to after the 2nd quarter of 2009, July.

Codemasters itself are developing the game after dropping Bohemia Interactive the creators of the first operation flashpoint. Some of you may be aware that Bohemia Interactive have decided to create Arma2 which is Bohemias way of introducing some competition to the Operation Flashpoint 2 Simulator. It would be interesting to see how the competition match and which game comes out on-top.

Welcome to the video section ofp2 online.  some of you may have already seen the first quarter of the video footage already, where a team of US troops rush a derelict building. This extended version shows off   more of what codemasters can really produce. The video footage boasts very impressive model animation and physics. Even the explosions are a form of eye candy!

Some of the later scenes show various in game warfare across different parts of the island. Showing a number of different gaming scenarios from foot soldier to mini gun helicopter firing.

More Operation flashpoint 2 images have been released. In January ofp2:online published two sets of render models showing various objects from ofp2 weapons to ofp2 vehicles. The latest ofp2 image gallery shows a third personal perspective of in-game graphics. The images show a terrain of mostly grassland but one picture from the selection shows a sandy terrain with graphical debris.There is even a closeup of one of the us military fighter helicopters just to show the community of the game variation.

As you can see the game offers massive environments with HDR enabled, offering that realistic approach to natural environments with amazing high color depth textures. Even the smoke grenades show amazing effects. After seeing these images I can only imagine that operation flashpoint 2 will offer amazing in-game detail at all levels, from environments to the actual models themselves.

It has come to my attention the Operation Flashpoint 2 will be released onto the steam client. Gamers who already own a steam ID will be able to take full advantage of ofp2 through the application, online store. However, Games such as GTA IV on initial release had teething problems when a portion of the community tried to download the content to find the game was buggy and wouldn’t validate when checking downloaded binaries.

If you are wondering what Steam is, Steam uses a graphical user interface allowing anyone with a steam id to buy and download games and other media content. Earlier Counter Strike gamers would have adopted this client many years ago when it was first introduced,  after the 1.6 version of the modification. Steam has then since increased in popularity, promoting third party games and non valve derived games onto the client. This allowed the gaming community to have access to a wide range of games from all kinds of developers.

This is great news for the community because steam is already a well known gaming tool for the community so promoting ofp2 will increase multiplayer awareness and create an even bigger online community than expected.