Do you remember the promise of the "Virtual Battlefield"? It may seen a quaint preoccupation in these days when military hardware and tactical realism are commonplace in shooters, but less than a decade ago the idea of a videogame war with infantry, tanks and aircraft battling across the same vast map was something that was still stuck on the drawing board. Games such as Codename Eagle (predecessor to the Battlefield series) successfully took the initiative ahead of the main force, but it offered little more than a localised skirmish compared to the total war that was Bohemia Interactive's Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.
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Preview: IGN
Nov 20, 2008, 02:21 PM
