ARMA: Cold War Assault

The campaign is awesome, the editor is the perfect sandbox and the absolute best mode is MFCTI (a mod/custom multiplayer mission) you have to download and play with your friends over LAN. It allows you to turn the game into a real-time match over a whole island with one commander per side, who builds a base and plays the game like a strategy game, while his teammates and AI are the squad leaders who capture towns and hopefully destroy the enemy base in the end. Been playing this since over 15 years and can't stop, won't stop. Have fun with this absolute gem of a game and enjoy the atmosphere it still creates after over 20 years. Dismissed.

I probably spent more hours playing & replaying this game (with the expansions) than any other PC game, with the exception of the Combat Mission series. It's one of the few PC game CD's I still actually own. The graphics still look decent, even by today's standards. It's well worth the GOG price.

it works on linux and on windows 10. Game is still fun, same as more than 20 years ago.

I'm not someone too interested in combat simulation titles, i own ArmA 2 on Steam and do like the game, but it's not my go to genre. But, yesterday, while searching for cheap titles to buy for my tiny budget, i saw this game and went for it, it was 1,74 BRL, which in a direct conversion is like, 50 cents tops. Been loving the game so far, gameplay is in depth and enjoyable and you can sink a lot of time into it if you're so inclined.

Back in 2001 when ArmA: Cold War Assault or Operation Flashpoint as it was known, was released, it was considered one of the most realistic depictions of being a foot soldier in a war. With its main storyline being set during the Cold War, when tensions were high between the USA and the Soviet Union, following a group of soldiers that find themselves stuck in the middle of an invasion on the island of Nogovo by the Soviet Union. You play as one of the soldiers and your main objective is to push the Soviet Union army off of the island while keeping the civilians safe. And there is also an expansion pack that follows a civilian who becomes part of a resistance group that struggle against the well trained and armed Soviet Union. If you're thinking you can go and play this game like Call of Duty or any other game, then you're mistaken. You can't just rush into enemy fire and expect your health to regenerate, your only way of recovering health is by calling for the medic that is with you, provided he haven't been killed during combat. Also if you get hit in the arms or legs, you suffer penalties like reduced movement speed and having a hard time aiming any of the weapons.