Taking a small step into the future, Red River depicts a fictional conflict with contemporary geopolitical themes, which will unfold over three distinct acts in both single player and drop-in-drop-out co-operative play for up to four players online. Faced with new counter-insurgency combat and the returning threat of the Chinese PLA, players will feel the tension, brutality and carnage of modern conflict from the perspective of a marine fireteam on deployment in a hostile country, thousands of miles from home.
GenreTactical Shooters
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Codemasters | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Operation Flashpoint: Red River Reviews xbox360
gamers.a review
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gamepro.com review
Obviously, you’re best served keeping your guys alive. When they’re competent, they’re valuable resources for both suppressing enemy fire and stitching you back up when you’ve been tagged. You can return the favor to them, but strangely, they will not heal each other. Because of that, I found myself often doing an about-face to make certain my men were with me. They don’t exactly leap to your rescue, which is out of sync with the expert marksmanship of the enemy.
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mondoxbox.com review
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guardian.co.uk review
Red River’s core nuts and bolts are impressive: the graphics and scenery design are superb, the key tactical wheel for issuing orders to your fire-team works beautifully and the weaponry responds as you would expect it to. It’s the first Operation Flashpoint game with a credible single-player story (although, in the interests of authenticity, it lacks the Hollywood-style set-pieces of games such as Black Ops). But it really comes into its own online, with some innovative modes, including one in which you defend a convoy beset by insurgents, and another in which you clear villages of insurgents and blow up weaponry stockpiles against the clock.
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strategyinformer.com review
Overall, we’ve played worse games. I know, cop-out right? But in all honesty Red River tries to fill in a niche somewhere between the fast-paced action of COD/BF, and the hyper-realism of ArmA. We think it’s better than Dragon Rising, and the fact they’ve taken the "less is more" approach and focused on a couple of key features has been to their credit. It’s got some good moments in it, but playing with friends is key and we question the longevity of this title, so the post-release DLC better be good and regular. Worth checking out, but maybe try and get it cheap if you’re counting the pennies.
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darkzero.co.uk review
The original Operation Flashpoint was a genuine first – A true to life military simulator. It didn’t feature exciting run and gun battles through gloriously rendered battlefields (unless you were doing something very wrong). Instead boasted a huge open landmass with objectives scattered throughout, realistic physics causing bullets to be affected by gravity, and a hell of a lot of hiking about. The main thing, however, was the realistic damage, which added a real tension to the proceedings. Wandering across a huge, empty field towards an enemy position was made significantly less boring knowing a sniper could pick you off with one well placed shot, and consequentially ending your game. Operation Flashpoint was an intense experience that no other game could provide. Thrills were replaced with fear. Excitement was replaced with tension, and us bearded man-children got a small glimpse into what it could be like to be in the middle of a warzone.
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meristation.com review
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gameblog.fr review
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eurogamer.it review
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3djuegos.com review
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nzgamer.com review
Enough of the tutorial stuff; let’s go and listen to the standard long winded briefing, where you are told you are here to save rock and roll, the Osmonds and Apple pie! “Whompff!†You must be kidding… no briefing, because the base is being mortared and we are straight into the first mission, no mucking about. I like it!
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vandal.net review
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multiplayer.it review
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ign.com review
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, we’d perhaps be looking at something exceptional. As it is it’s merely capable, with occasional flashpoints of brilliance.
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metro.co.uk review
The artificial intelligence of your fellow Marines has improved from the last game, but it’s still unremarkable, when the nature of the game requires something much more reliable. They follow your orders well enough but they have not an ounce of initiative or common sense.
gamekult.com review
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gamerevolution.com review
The idea of an open-ended, multi-squad, strategic, cooperative shooter is incredible, and during those short bursts when Red River comes together—especially when playing with friends—there are few games like it. But there are so many issues, both large and small, that you’ll have to overlook a lot of flaws in order to enjoy it. If only I could stick the disc back in the oven for a little while longer, because Operation Flashpoint: Red River is clearly not finished cooking.
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