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

Andrew Bryant — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:58:46 +0000

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

Codemasters seem to be attempting to piggy-back on Modern Warfare 2′s insano-marketing by offering the cash-flush an equally pointless and overtly extravagant special edition.

£30 or the equivalent in Euro-dollars can buy you a copy of Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, the officially unofficial official sequel to the 2001 Bohemia Interactive-developed military sim.

But, get this, for MORE money (we’re currently not sure just how much it’ll harm your wallet), you get the above officially unofficial official sequel to Operation Flashpoint along with a full-size adult military … Read More...

Bohemia get shirty over Codemaster’s Flashpoint Marketing

Andrew Bryant — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:45:43 +0000

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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