Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising - Boxed - PS3

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is an action-oriented military simulation. The player moves through the mission areas in typical first-person-shooter fashion and must accomplish certain objectives, such as blowing up a generator or taking out anti-aircraft guns so the invasion can continue. But since realism plays an important role in this game, the player can't simply walk up to the enemy base and shoot everyone. Instead, he and his three comrades must use various stances such as crouching and lying down to move from cover to cover in different formations and think before firing a single shot – in short, the player must act tactically to avoid ending up dead in the tall grass. To help with this, he has access to a radial, context-sensitive menu that lets him give targeted orders to his teammates. The player can also adjust the weaponry of each team member (and himself) at the start of every mission to suit the situation at hand. The weapons arsenal features only real-world weapons such as the MK16 MOD 0 assault rifle. If all the stealth doesn't help and combat breaks out, the player must keep an eye on both his blood level and his injury status. Depending on where and how badly he's wounded, e.g. in the arm, his ability to hold the weapon steady decreases. The player also loses blood with every wound, and if he loses too much blood, he naturally passes out and the mission is over.

The game offers several multiplayer modes. Players can either tackle the entire campaign together or just a single mission, or they can face off against each other in "Destruction", which resembles Team Deathmatch, or "Infiltration", in which the smaller team must accomplish an objective while the other team must prevent the objective from being destroyed. Unlike the single-player campaign, where the player has only limited access to vehicles such as jeeps or helicopters, the selection in multiplayer is much larger, ranging from a HUMVEE to an AH-1 Cobra helicopter. The PC version also includes a powerful map editor.