Military Tuesday : Operation Flashpoint 2 - Dragon Rising ‘Sheer Scale’ Trailer

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008, 12:00 amRoys

CG rendered game videos are getting more photorealistic by the day, and Codemasters’ Operation Flashpoint 2 : Dragon Rising is no exception. Besides, the fictional scenario presented in the trailer reminds me of Jeff Head’s freely downloadable novel Dragon’s Fury on a hypothetical World War III instigated by militaristic regimes in China and the Middle East.

This ‘Sheer Scale’ trailer for Codemasters’ sequel to 2001’s Operation Flashpoint : Cold War Crisis showcases significantly larger battles than the original game. Below is a sypnosis and analysis of the 2 min trailer.

An American special forces team (identified by their helmet and the silenced MP5s) takes out an enemy outpost. The sentry seems like a PLA soldier since the carbine he’s holding looks like the current PLA service weapon, the QBZ-95.

But I’m curious about the camouflage worn by the American soldiers, since it doesn’t look like the current US woodland pattern and is probably one of the new digital camouflage patterns like the Army Combat Uniform Pattern (ARPAT).

The identity of the outpost occupants are revealed when they exclaim in Chinese the moment the American troops burst it and secure the building.

After completing their objective, the squad is surprised and taken out by enemy (artillery?) bombardment while exiting the building. The camera then cuts to show a group of Strykers rumbling into the area.

Encountering enemy PLA Type 92 armoured personnel carriers and infantry ahead, the Strkyers engage the vehicles while soldiers quickly dismount from the back to provide additional firepower.

Enemy reinforcements from the flank almost overwhelm the Americans until a flight of AH-64 Apaches arrives to save the day. Finally found the the enemy armour that took out the Stryker at 1:09 after replaying the video several times (see closeup in second pic below - top right corner).

Later, a flight of UH-60s land troops into the fight with door-mounted chaingunners pouring suppressive fire into the town ruins.

The camera then zooms out to show a couple of Nanchang Q-5 ‘Fantan’ flying past and finally the island where the skirmish has taken place.

The Wikipedia article for Operation Flashpoint 2 : Dragon Rising states that the island in question might be Okinawa but I doubt that the architectural style of the buildings in the trailer look more European than Okinawan.

Download the ‘Sheer Scale’ trailer at Gametrailers or visit the official Operation Flashpoint 2 : Dragon Rising website.

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2 comments:

DEITRIX, Tuesday, August 5th, 2008, 10:43 pm

The sceens on the website look pretty amazing… Will have to keep my eye on this one for 2009.
Roys, Wednesday, August 6th, 2008, 10:34 am

Apparently some of the models in this trailer are in-game 3D models, haven’t really verified that though - with technology progressing so fast, gamers of the future would probably be able to play through a simulation of the entire WWII.