Operation Flashpoint: Red River for Xbox 360 Reviews by Gamers

id rent this game just for SGT. Knox's commentary, had me laughing the whole time i was playing, great game if you have patience for strategy, cant win with run and gunning (very hard)

OF:RR is a mixed bag of improvements and set backs to what makes the franchise great. There have been some tweeks in controls and UI, and the edition of player progressioin and loadout selects are nice. Where the game takes a pitfall is in trying to bring in a larger audience with low brow humor and boringly predictable firefights. In the past you were givin your objectives and you would then proceed to scout, issue orders, and take the objective any way you saw fit. In RR however, your annoying cliche of a commanding officer barks at you constantly what to do and most paths your lead on are straight foward and linear. OF:RR tries too hard to emulate what other shooters do well mixed with its brand of sim style gameplay. Codemasters is a long way off from achieving the breath of what makes current 5,000 lb gorrilla great. Enemy Ai seems to have gotten a little bit better, but will stand still out in the open to be shot at still. Your teamate AI, on the other hand, is still dumber than ever. Countless times my teamates won't follow orders, can't seem to take cover nor engage enemies 10m away, and is prone to be run over by the humvee convoy in some missions. Your better off finding 3 other humans to play with over XBL or PSN. Which brings me to multiplayer, Sadly no adversial game modes available, but what you do get is a revamped FTE(Fire Team Engagement) Mode. No longer is FTE just a quick battle from the campaign. There is Rolling Thunder which has you escorting a Convoy, Clear and engage which has you clearing a map of enimies and destroying HVT's, CVac has you entering a red zone and rescuing pilots, and the final mode is reminiscent of the Horde mode from gears of war which you face off against wave after wave of increasingly difficult enemies. All in all if your a fan of the OF series, try this one out you might still like it, but for you fast paced twitch shooter fans out there you may want to pass, this isnt the modern shooter your looking for