Magnum50

A newfound re-interest in the Original OFP has given me the desire to investigate the Armed Assault game (which appears to be an enhanced OFP game), and then OFP2 (which as of now it can't be called OFP2 due to license agreements.)... so sharing what news I have found out with you guys... some or all may be already known...


Armed Assault:

Armed Assault (working title, aka ArmA) will be our next title for PC with an expected release date prior to the end of 2005. It will bring you a new engine with numerous improvements, including a completely new Direct X 9 graphics engine with support for detailed vegetation and dynamic water, reworked physical simulation and collision detection. Not forgetting of course, support for join in progress multiplayer. It will also contain a brand new environment and campaign set in the recent past. We also keep in mind all of the great community content created so far and we’ll try to make it as easy as possible to convert and use any OFP content in ArmA. Good news for addon makers is that porting their work into ArmA will help prepare them for future releases of our engine, which in the coming years will expand over many areas the ability of our technology.

http://www.armedassault.com/



OFP2
Press release – The ultimate new PC game from BIS

Prague, Czech Republic – 20th May 2005

Format: PC DVD-ROM
Genre: First person military combat, role-playing & strategy
Estimated Release date: Q4 2006
Publisher: To be determined

Bohemia Interactive Studio is very proud to announce details of their next PC game featuring new generation technology.

The year is 2010 and the world has changed. Heightened tensions around the globe have created a need for military operations to ensure ongoing stability. As part of an international coalition contingent, your team is deployed to locations in Europe and Asia.

Brought to you by the creators of Operation Flashpoint*: offering large-scale game worlds, authentic and extremely detailed modern units, weapons, vehicles and environments, challenging objectives and the most realistic single and multi player computer combat experience to date. The complete simulation package will come with a comprehensive set of tools for the creation of custom content.

The most accurate military simulation to date in an action game
The ultimate combination of action, role playing and strategy elements
Authentic and insanely detailed representation of all gear and vehicles
Take part in realistic large scale military operations, in a near future setting
Extremely large and detailed maps
Proprietary next generation engine
Full multiplayer support for online combat
Customizable game with built-in mission editor

http://www.bistudio.com/presspages/pcpressrelease.html
(screenshots and press release download)

About Bohemia Interactive Studio:
Bohemia Interactive Studio, headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic, is an independent game development studio that focuses on developing state of the art computer entertainment software and the research of advanced real time 3D graphics, artificial intelligence and physical simulation technologies for real-time interactive environments. Previous titles include the 1.5 million selling, multiple award winning PC game Operation Flashpoint*. Proprietary technology created by Bohemia Interactive Studio is also powering military simulation programs run by USMC, US National Guard, ADF and other military organizations worldwide.



NOTE: I will be contacting the PR guy (public relations rep) for additional information, questions, and further investigations on both products... depending on how friendly and giving the PR guy is, hopefully I'll be able to do a detailed pre-view in the near future of both products.

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Magnum50

8 screenshots of OFP2... near bottom:

http://www.magnumland.com/ofp.htm

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jex

OFP 1.5 or 2 will hopefully turn out to be good, and looking forward to seeing it implemented here at TG. If it's a winner, we may see a resurgence of the "GR days" here at TG. OFP is still my favoured FPS and we should get a CTI event going sometime.

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