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- Operation Flashpoint: Red River is a decent first-person shooter with solid shooting mechanics and great emphasis on a tactical approach to the battlefield. However, the single-player campaign is hampered by poor AI that turns challenging missions into frustrating ones, and lackluster graphics sometimes erode the game's realism.
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Apr 21, 2011 · Any chance to mitigate the use of the game's AI is a blessed oasis of competence in a sea of fuckuppery. Real humans are the best tonic. To its credit, Red River is thick with co-op potential ...
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By Alec Meer
Updated: May 8, 2012 6:09 am
Posted: Apr 21, 2011 8:00 am
It's a military shooter set in Tajikistan, but you know where it's really set. Red River's another one of those acutely modern combat games most of the games industry seems obsessed with right now, but importantly it's not one you can beat by running forward and spraying bullets everywhere. This is a game about caution and teamwork as much as it is personal accuracy, and in such melodramatic, ludicrous times for shooters its stern, unforgiving tactical violence is a breath of fresh air.
Unfortunately that breath threatens to lose its refreshing tang, as Red River quickly suffers from a shortage of the gloss that characterises its stupider peers. It's entirely unfair to expect every shooter to enjoy the sky-high budgets of Call of Duty, Medal of Honor, Homefront et al, or indeed to spend the resources it does have on spectacle and set pieces, but that doesn't really excuse spending a good portion of your in-game time sat motionless on a long jeep ride while your commanding officer apparently reads aloud every last entry in Mr Naughty's Big Book Of Naughty Swears for his own amusement.
This guy, Knox, is by far the most talkative character in the game - primarily because most everyone else is either just barking or acknowledging orders. He's voiced by the bloke who played Apone in Aliens, and here he's playing pretty much the same hard-ass soldier, only a whole lot more foul-mouthed. What's initially entertaining, thanks to inventively weird swear-combos and Knox's oft-preached 'rules' (which introduce key combat advice within a more convincing pseudo-military context than a tutorial or loading screen message), swiftly becomes grating. One of the game's greatest follies is bookending so many of its missions with long jeep or chopper rides, in which you and your three squad-mates, either controlled by other players or puppet-mastered by AI, sit in silence while Knox rants away endlessly to himself.
All told, Red River just about achieves its objective - an engaging halfway house between soldier simulation and improbable heroics, and a slick, smart co-op modern warfare experience. If only it had trimmed down the flabby downtime and the reams of prattling fratboy dialogue which dominate its campaign, and instead pursued more tactical variety, w...
- Alec Meer
Jun 7, 2011 · Operation Flashpoint: Red River isn't the most accessible military FPS game out there, but it certainly is one of the most realistic you'll find on the console if you're up for the challenge.
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Jun 15, 2011 · Operation Flashpoint: Red River tries to set the tone for team-based combat and realistic warfare, but does it reach its goal? Read our review to find out.
Jun 24, 2011 · The original Operation Flashpoint was a realistic military sim that happened to be presented as a first-person shooter. Red River is a pretty arcadey first-person shooter that decks itself out...
May 4, 2011 · Operation Flashpoint: Red River is a decent first-person shooter with solid shooting mechanics and great emphasis on a tactical approach to the battlefield.
Jun 5, 2021 · Is Operation Flashpoint: Red River realistic? No, because no matter how many times you get shot in the chest you can, provided you’re still clinging to life, recover by waving a closed medikit...
