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Stealth tactics or all-out assaultProduct InformationOperation Flashpoint Cold War Crisis is as close to war as you ever want toget.  You are dropped in the path of the Red Army.  Your objective isclear: take your men your weapons and your training; commandeer any vehicle youfind survive if you can but above all force them back!  Includes richenthralling campaign single missions and multiplay.  Create your ownstrategic challenges.Product Features Take command of a squad or just cover your own back.  Stay alive and be victorious. Deliver liberation in Campaign Single Mission or Multiplay modes. Over 30 vehicles to drive or fly. From AH 1 Cobra Helicopter to M1A1 Abrams tank each visually accurate to its original spec. Create your own strategic challenges for solo and multiplay with the easy-to-use Mission Editor - limited only by your imagination. Conquer the battle zone in multiplayer missions across TCP/IP LAN or Internet.Windows Requirements Windows 95 98 Me XP (Home Edition) Vista Pentium 600 MHz processor 128 MB of RAM 450 MB Hard Drive space 3D Graphics Card with 16 MB RAM minimum DirectX 8 compatible 16-bit Sound Card Mouse Keyboard Optional: TCP/IP 56K modem and Microsoft DirectPlay supported 

Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis is a first- and third-person tactical combat game set in 1985 detailing a fictional conflict between NATO and the Soviet Union. As a soldier fighting against the Soviets, you're on the frontline of the conflict and charged with a number of missions, including sabotage, recon, combat, assassination, and fending off enemy attacks. The game is very successful in its approach, but stumbles when it forces you to play vehicle-only missions where you control a tank, an attack helicopter, or an A-10 tank killer. Over the course of the game's 50 single-player missions and campaigns, you'll assume several combat roles, running the gamut from a grunt armed with an M-16 to a tank commander commanding an M1A1 Abrams tank into battle. The bulk of the game consists of you tromping around on foot in first- or third-person mode, and those missions are a great deal of fun. Firefights are intense, chaotic, and often confusing, and they capture what it must feel like to be an infantry soldier caught in a battle. In addition, the included multiplayer mode is a lot of fun, although it can lag at times. Getting used to the controls can take awhile, and will definitely be a hurdle for folks used to the simple keystrokes of most action games. Everything is handled in a realistic manner: standing from the prone position takes a few seconds, the sight on your weapon bounces around as you move, and you can hear your soldier's labored breathing when you sprint across open ground. In fact, you can only sprint for a short distance before tiring (and slowing), which encourages players to make short advances from cover to cover--just like a real soldier. Even the gunfights are realistic: instead of the extreme close-quarters combat and bright crosshairs found in most action games, Operation Flashpoint challenges you to line up a faraway, crouching soldier in the fixed iron sights of a real-world rifle. Successful missions earn a promotion in rank for you and the men under your command; controlling your squad is simple and straightforward and involves just a few keystrokes. On the downside, the difficulty with the complex controls is compounded a million times when you play as a tank commander, where you must issue move and fire orders to the rest of the tank crew. These missions are very frustrating, especially because you can only save once per mission. Because of that, you'll find yourself replaying the tank missions again and again and again. Operation Flashpoint sports a decent graphics engine that is capable of rendering massive and realistic outdoor areas. These large areas really make you feel like you're part of a huge battlefield, complete with forests, scrub, and dozens of vehicles and soldiers. The price you pay is in the form of blocky player models and pixilated plants. In addition, graphical glitches, such as soldiers' heads being on backward, rear up from time to time. Fans of quick-twitch games such as Quake III will probably be turned off by Operation Flashpoint's realistic gameplay and slower pace. Everyone else will find an exciting, engaging, intense cold war combat game. --Kilmic Robbins Pros: Intense action Decent AI Multiplayer is a blast Realistic combat Accurate representations of 1980s military technology Cons: Vehicle-centric missions stink Control takes some getting used to Only 1 save per mission

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It's a rare combat flight sim that can be all things to all people, but Battle of Britain comes close. The designers set out to model the entire pivotal WWII conflict and succeeded admirably, creating some of the best flight models and visuals this genre has ever seen. With all the realism options turned off, it's basically reduced to the level of an arcade game, but with those same options enabled, even the most jaded virtual pilots will have their hands full. This is the kind of simulation that lets players manually tweak the pitch of their propellers, and makes players deal with issues like carbureted vs. fuel-injected engines, engine torque, and blackouts from pulling too many g's. The designers certainly didn't focus on minute details at the expense of Battle of Britain's strategic possibilities. The game engine is capable of throwing hundreds of planes in the air at once, and it simulates raids whether they are part your particular mission or not. It's possible to take off with the intention of intercepting a small flight of Stuka dive-bombers only to end up responding to a massive raid of heavy bombers attacking a town miles away. Few games give the player such a sense of playing a bit part on the stage of battle. That's not to say the gamers' actions and input are inconsequential. Battle of Britain also comes with a campaign mode that lets players make strategic decisions as either the British or the Germans. As the British players, receive reports on incoming raids and apportion your meager resources to effectively meet each threat. German commanders get to deal with the problem of assigning fighter escorts to the bombers, knowing that the fighters can't spend more than 20 minutes over enemy soil because of fuel limitations. Those are just a few of the situations players face. It's also possible to jump into any plane in the campaign mode to play out a mission in the simulation mode. --T. Byrl Baker Pros: Masterful combination of cerebral strategic campaign mode and adrenaline-charged simulation mode Excellent flight models Beautiful terrain and buildings Cons: High-quality visuals require a lot of computing horsepower Sound effects could be better Steep system requirments Some users report frequent system-crashing bugs

From the creators of MiG Alley comes Rowan's Battle of Britain. The game offers an environment of 800 square miles to recreate the famous air war over WWII Britain. Choose to go on raids with 1,000 other Luftwaffe aircraft, or respond with fellow 200 Royal Air Force fighters. Fly the Spitfire RAF fighter, Hurricane RAF fighter, Me 109 Luftwaffe fighter, Me 110 Luftwaffe twin-engine fighter, or the Ju87 Stuka dive-bomber, then act as a gunner in Junkers 88, Heinkel 111, or the Dornier 17. The virtual cockpits feature interactivity, which allows for realistic engine management. Play a campaign from the perspective of either a pilot or commander, where the Artificial Intelligence can be set up to react historically or with the benefit of 60 years of hindsight. Alternately, play quick missions to jump right into the action. Hide in and behind cloud banks, listening to radio chatter as you prepare to strike, escort, or intercept. The landscape model features elevated sections in simulated city areas and a coastline that blends the sea and land.