Tagged:  Operation Flashpoint 2: Dragon Rising

Operation Hat-point – Codemasters attempt to out-silly rivals

By Andrew Bryant, August 8, 2009 0 PC, PS3, XBOX 360

Shiny helmet!

Well, at least Activision’s effort allows you to spy the girl next door…… Read More…

Bohemia get shirty over Codemaster’s Flashpoint Marketing

By Andrew Bryant, March 2, 2009 0 PC, PS3, XBOX 360

Flashpoint 2

You just gotta love trademark disputes…

The whole kerfuffle surrounding F.E.A.R. 2 springs too mind, what with its WBIE vs. Vivendi jiggery pokery and community naming competition.

Now Bohemia Interactive (Operation Flashpoint, Armed Assault, VBS1) are shouting from the rooftops that Codemaster’s proclamations of Flashpoint 2 being ‘the official sequel’ to their original product despite them not being involved are ‘wrong’.

Quoting the Rock Paper Shotgun article that does a swell job of covering the whole shebang is probably the best way to go…

Is the upcoming Codemasters game really ‘the much anticipated return of the genre-defining military conflict simulator’

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