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Today we’re adding another classic FPS to our ever-growing catalog, ArmA: Gold Edition, for the paltry price point of $9.99. This version of the game includes the original ArmA: Armed Assault and its expansion Queen’s Gambit.

[url=http://www.gog.com/en/gamecard/arma_gold_edition][/url]Bohemia Interactive worked hard on delivering a sequel to their award winning franchise, taking years to release ArmA: Gold Edition. This military simulator takes place on a fictional Atlantic island of Sahrani, divided into two countries: the communist dictatorship in the north and the democratic kingdom in the south. When US forces stationed there leave the southern country for training, the northern neighbour attacks. You are one of the US soldiers that hasn’t left the island yet, so you join the local militias and fight the aggressive regime!

The terrain featured in the campaign measures up to 400 square kilometers, and is beautifully rendered by the Real Virtuality 2 engine. All of the weapons and vehicle models are made in great detail, but apart from looking real they behave like the real ones too. Sighting, weapon ballistics, damage, recoil, and reloading are some of the things that were designed to be as real as they can get. The main campaign offers over 20 missions with non-linear scenarios and on top of that the Queen’s Gambit adds two more campaigns, one connected with the main campaign, the other one features a group of mercenaries that are all about stealth and efficiency. If you manage to accomplish all three campaigns, and you still haven’t got enough of ArmA, you can create your own missions with the built-in editor. If you aren’t the mission building type yourself, you can still use the editor to load up and play one of the hundreds mods that are already made by the fans!

ArmA: Gold Edition is DRM-Free as always and can be yours for only $9.99.
Very nice. Beeing eyeing this on Steam for a while. DRM free is so much better
Besides the graphical prettiness, is this a decent upgrade from Operation Fla... errr... ArmA: Cold War Crisis?
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TheEnigmaticT: Marketing departments are small at any company that's not, well, a marketing firm. You've seen the entire department post in this thread; there are a lot more than three testers. ;)
No offense at you pr guys - everyone has his special burden. Nah, I'm just a little bit joking and wondering why you officially searching another pr guy again and never some programers. I'm not a programer, so that's not a call. But to get a little bit ontopic again, any plans to raise releases per week in the long run, especially when the next big publisher is coming?
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DukeNukemForever: Nah, I'm just a little bit joking and wondering why you officially searching another pr guy again and never some programers.
Perhaps programming positions are advertised in the code of the releases to filter the unworthy?
Bring the old, bring the new. It's all good.

Adding another release day would be interesting, but if it never happens, so be it. :)
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DukeNukemForever: Nah, I'm just a little bit joking and wondering why you officially searching another pr guy again and never some programers.
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grviper: Perhaps programming positions are advertised in the code of the releases to filter the unworthy?
Crazy enough there are some guys who check the code. I vaguely remember some threads about it.
Not really interested in this, but as long as it pleases other people...
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HereForTheBeer: Besides the graphical prettiness, is this a decent upgrade from Operation Fla... errr... ArmA: Cold War Crisis?
It definitely is. The campaign of Cold War Crisis is longer and better, but ArmA brings some worthy improvements besides the better graphics. It's not a big step forward, but also no step backwards. More like an update. If you loved Cold War Crisis, I deeply recommend it, due to a lack of choice at this genre.
Post edited October 25, 2011 by Bavarian
Meh, not my thing.
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HereForTheBeer: Besides the graphical prettiness, is this a decent upgrade from Operation Fla... errr... ArmA: Cold War Crisis?
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Bavarian: It definitely is. The campaign of Cold War Crisis is longer and better, but ArmA brings some worthy improvements besides the better graphics. It's not a big step forward, but also no step backwards. More like an update. If you loved Cold War Crisis, I deeply recommend it, due to a lack of choice at this genre.
I may have to jump on board, then, if only to see what the mod community has done with it.
How much fun is this in multiplayer? And by "multiplayer", I actually mean one or two other people and the rest are bots. Does this play with dedicated servers, a la UT2k4 where people join in or out and you have little control over it except for voting maps or can you set it up a la Starcraft or other RTS games, where you meet in a lobby and start a private game with selected people?

edit: Looked around and found my answer on an old review.
Post edited October 25, 2011 by El_Caz
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Fuzzyfireball: Bring the old, bring the new. It's all good.

Adding another release day would be interesting, but if it never happens, so be it. :)
I'd prefer the new was pushed back for mostly old. :) 2007 isn't too "bad," though. (At least it was made before Windows 7 was released; that says something.)
Wow, now I can stage a battle, post it up on YouTube, and have it broadcast as authentic footage of Irish terrorists, just like on TV!
I agree with the comments that it's a bit too new to be on GOG. I have the game and it's a good game but I don't consider it old and it's easy to get hold of in most stores online & off... I'd much rather GOG focused on releasing older games that were harder to acquire, after all there's a huge back catalogue from the publisher's GOG has that aren't up yet.
awesome GoG, cheers.

bought instantly, despite having the disk copy on my shelf.

*fingers crossed for Arma2*