This is one of the coolest things I’ve played in ages. Frozen Synapse is a minimalist sort-of turn based indie combat simulator. Both sides give their soldiers orders, once all the orders have been collected the next slice of action unfolds in real time. You do battle across a variety of modes that see you protecting hostages, collecting boxes or just killing each other to death. It’s great.
By Tom Senior
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Posted in Initial thoughts
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Also tagged Arenas, Chunks, Combat Factor, Combat Simulator, Cones, Encounter, First Impressions, Hostages, Line Of Sight, Neon, Ruthless Tactics, S Line, Time Combat, Tiny Box, Tweaking, Tweaks, Unfairness, Waypoints, Weapon Load, Workouts
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December 11, 2009 – 9:53 pm
Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is the offical/unoffical sequel (depending on who you talk to) to the first Operation Flashpoint; a game about soldiering it up and leading a small squad with a huge freedom to approach targets and then getting killed by unseen snipers. Repeatedly. Then crying over your keyboard like the blubbery manchild you are. Whilst the original developement team Bohemia Interactive went on to make their own sequel in terms of ArmA, publishers Codemasters decided to try and have a shot at it seeming as they still had the rights to slap Flashpoint on a game. Many were…
By Ed Fenning
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Posted in PC Gaming Nonsense
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Also tagged Alot, Approach Targets, Arma, artillery, Attempts, Badass, Blink Of An Eye, Blown Away, Brand Name, Bullets, Cannabis User, Challenges, Clo, Codemasters, Curve, Dragon, Eerie Glow, Enemies, Escalation, Expansion Pack, Fallacy, Fear Perseus Mandate, Fictional Island, Five Minutes, Flashpoint Operation, Fuzzy Logic, game, Gameplay, gamer, games, Gap, Great Lengths, grenade, Gunbattle, Guns, Heroin, Hunting Shotgun, Immersion, Ish, Kilometers, Light Glistens, Mandate, Manned Outpost, Memories, Missions, Moon, Moonlight, Museli, Operation Flashpoint, Player Campaign, Pleasing Manner, Pretty Island, Realism, Rebels, Resistance, Satisfactory Conclusion, Scale Battles, Sequel, Shells, shooter, Single Player, Skira, Sni, sniper, Sniper One, Sniper Rifle, Sniper Scope, Snipers, Soldiering, Squadies, Squadron, Stairs, Stunning Girl, Success And Failure, Tall Grass, Targets, Teamates, Unseen Bullet, Uphill Battle, Visuals, Vulnerability, War Sim, Wargame, Weaponry, Windows Version
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