Do you want to be in a real war? If yes, then for you there is a genre of FPS-Tactical Shooter, or "war simulator". This genre differs from all other FPS shooter games in that there is a huge scale of the map and you can deploy global military actions that are quite comparable to real conflicts. In these games, you can control a helicopter, an airplane and other types of equipment. You can be killed with one bullet. The most important thing in these games is the team interactions of the squads.
Operation Flashpoint game
The founder of the FPS-Tactical shooter genre and the creator of this game is the Czech studio Bohemia Interective.
Operation Flashpoint has a special version for training US Army soldiers. This version of the game was released in August 2001. And the US Department of Defense writes positive reviews about the game.
The game takes place during the Cold War. There are two factions in the game: the US Army and the Soviet Union Army.
Opearation Flashpoint war simulator features single player, co-op scenarios and multiplayer. The maps in the game are large-scale: small cities, villages, huge forest spaces and steppes. A lot of different equipment: from UAZ and Humvees to helicopters, but the main time of the game you will be the infantry.
The whole point of this game is the built-in editor, using which you can create scenarios, maps for multiplayer and much more. Thanks to this, the game is still "alive" and attracts people with it, and the game has a long life - more than 10 years.
Military simulator Armed Assault
Armed Assault is a direct heir to Operation Flashpoint from the same developers Bohemia Interective.
Armed Assault was released in 2007. In this simulator there are real prototypes of equipment, such as cars, T-72 tanks and M1A1 Abrams. There is aerial technique that needs to be mastered and studied separately.
Gameplay in this game has not changed. Actions are already taking place in the modern world, where the main enemy is terrorists. Military operations are conducted in a fictional country called Chernorussia.
The map has been made much larger in area, the number of unique locations has increased in it, for example, an airfield. The graphics have changed for the better, but the graphics engine in this game is unstable, as there are "bugs". The game itself is not optimized. Armed Assault is mainly designed for multiplayer and co-op, single player is present, but it looks dull and uninteresting compared to other modes.
Armed Assault and Operation Flashpoint are unique projects in their own way, which embody the ideas of realism of military operations. Until now, no game has repeated such success and recognition in this genre. These two games went their own way, but not towards cinematic and simplistic, but towards realism and hardcore.
Fans expect developers to write a new graphics engine, since the old one - ten years ago - no longer fits modern graphics standards.
