Taking gamers as close to war as they’ll ever want to get Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising is the much anticipated return of the genre-defining military conflict simulator Set to deliver the total combat experience Operation Flashpoint 2 will challenge players to survive the chaos & rapidly evolving situations of modern warfare in a new contemporary theatre Players will experience the intensity diversity & claustrophobia of a modern conflict from the unique perspectives of an infantry marine a helicopter pilot a Special Forces officer or a tank commander each engaged against the full force of the Chinese PLA on a scale never previously experienced in a military action title Gameplay simulates an immense conflict between advanced forces & provides unparalleled scope with different military disciplines vehicles & equipment for players to utilize Freedom of Play – Operation Flashpoint 2 will give players the freedom to handle military crisis situations on their initiative Unscripted missions will task players with real objectives such as laying down covering fire covering a friendly unit’s retreat or conducting short-range recon patrol Armed with cutting edge military hardware players will need to balance brute force with intelligent use of tactics Once players have completed the campaign a Mission Editor enables gamers to create their own single player & multiplayer missions The most realistic modern military conflict game – Operation Flashpoint 2 features unparalleled levels of realism & variety of military forces equipment weapons & tactics Fully loaded weapons & individual ammunition types will be simulated with detailed ballistic physics based upon individually-crafted mechanics Players will command & control a wide variety of multi-component multi-weapon vehicles including tanks infantry fighting vehicles APCs attack & utility helicopters The character damage system authentically depicts the terrible wounds & injury from modern weapons to communicate the reality of combat Platoon-Based Combat
- As an epic campaign weaves the narrative players will fight as infantry soldiers in battle drive tanks in armored assaults pilot helicopters in air strikes & infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives & rifles to machine guns grenade launchers & laser designators for air strikes In whichever role the player chooses they will experience the fierce & brutal reality of warfare & the shock & awe of contemporary firepower unleashed on the arresting scale of modern combat Redefines the Size of Battle
- Immense play areas of more than 135 square miles give players a multitude of tactical decisions on how to best accomplish missions Densely packed with environment detail & objects valleys mountains coastlines towns villages & industrial complexes all combine to deliver a rich & challenging tactical environment The world is persistent so that buildings destroyed in one campaign mission will be destroyed in the next Stylized Cinematography
- Operation Flashpoint 2 will model the environment objects & people in realistic detail but its visual styling will embrace documentary techniques The camera work through cut-scenes will be heavily influenced by television war reports that are often shot under extreme circumstances delivering a unique look with incorrect exposure severe camera shake & loss of focus


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Taking gamers as close to war as they'll ever want to get Operation Flashpoint Dragon Rising is the much anticipated return of the genre-defining military conflict simulator Set to deliver the total combat experience Operation Flashpoint 2 will challenge players to survive the chaos & rapidly evolving situations of modern warfare in a new contemporary theatre Players will experience the intensity diversity & claustrophobia of a modern conflict from the unique perspectives of an infantry marine a helicopter pilot a Special Forces officer or a tank commander each engaged against the full force of the Chinese PLA on a scale never previously experienced in a military action title Gameplay simulates an immense conflict between advanced forces & provides unparalleled scope with different military disciplines vehicles & equipment for players to utilize Freedom of Play
- Operation Flashpoint 2 will give players the freedom to handle military crisis situations on their initiative Unscripted missions will task players with real objectives such as laying down covering fire covering a friendly unit's retreat or conducting short-range recon patrol Armed with cutting edge military hardware players will need to balance brute force with intelligent use of tactics Once players have completed the campaign a Mission Editor enables gamers to create their own single player & multiplayer missions The most realistic modern military conflict game
- Operation Flashpoint 2 features unparalleled levels of realism & variety of military forces equipment weapons & tactics Fully loaded weapons & individual ammunition types will be simulated with detailed ballistic physics based upon individually-crafted mechanics Players will command & control a wide variety of multi-component multi-weapon vehicles including tanks infantry fighting vehicles APCs attack & utility helicopters The character damage system authentically depicts the terrible wounds & injury from modern weapons to communicate the reality of combat Platoon-Based Combat
- As an epic campaign weaves the narrative players will fight as infantry soldiers in battle drive tanks in armored assaults pilot helicopters in air strikes & infiltrate the enemy in covert special operations utilizing a wide variety of realistic military weapons from knives & rifles to machine guns grenade launchers & laser designators for air strikes In whichever role the player chooses they will experience the fierce & brutal reality of warfare & the shock & awe of contemporary firepower unleashed on the arresting scale of modern combat Redefines the Size of Battle
- Immense play areas of more than 135 square miles give players a multitude of tactical decisions on how to best accomplish missions Densely packed with environment detail & objects valleys mountains coastlines towns villages & industrial complexes all combine to deliver a rich & challenging tactical environment The world is persistent so that buildings destroyed in one campaign mission will be destroyed in the next Stylized Cinematography
- Operation Flashpoint 2 will model the environment objects & people in realistic detail but its visual styling will embrace documentary techniques The camera work through cut-scenes will be heavily influenced by television war reports that are often shot under extreme circumstances delivering a unique look with incorrect exposure severe camera shake & loss of focus




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Between Afghanistan & China the world&s next flashpoint is about to erupt The valleys towns & mountains of Tajikistan will become bloody frontlines for the might of the People&s Liberation Army insurgent guerrilla fighters & the United States Marine Corps You & your fireteam can make a difference How much is up to you It&s not the soldier with the most expensive gun or the biggest heart who wins on the battlefield It&s the smartest Semper Fi Marine Go closer to the experience of the US Marines on campaign with the ultimate tactical infantry shooter Stand together with 4 player drop-in drop-out online co-op multiplayer in campaign mode & standalone Fire Team Engagements Become immersed in an engrossing narrative which unfolds over three acts in campaign mode Play as Grenadier Scout Rifleman & Automatic Rifleman classes each with unique strengths & weaknesses for increased replayability Earn & spend XP on weapons attachments & abilities for each of the fireteam&s specialists Call in Combat Support such as Mortars Howitzers & JDAMs whilst AH-1Z Helicopters & A-10 Ground Attack Aircraft provide Close Air Support ...

Between Afghanistan & China the world&s next flashpoint is about to erupt The valleys towns & mountains of Tajikistan will become bloody frontlines for the might of the People&s Liberation Army insurgent guerrilla fighters & the United States Marine Corps You & your fireteam can make a difference How much is up to you It&s not the soldier with the most expensive gun or the biggest heart who wins on the battlefield It&s the smartest Semper Fi Marine Go closer to the experience of the US Marines on campaign with the ultimate tactical infantry shooter Stand together with 4 player drop-in drop-out online co-op multiplayer in campaign mode & standalone Fire Team Engagements Become immersed in an engrossing narrative which unfolds over three acts in campaign mode Play as Grenadier Scout Rifleman & Automatic Rifleman classes each with unique strengths & weaknesses for increased replayability Earn & spend XP on weapons attachments & abilities for each of the fireteam&s specialists Call in Combat Support such as Mortars Howitzers & JDAMs whilst AH-1Z Helicopters & A-10 Ground Attack Aircraft provide Close Air Support Recommended OS Microsoft Windows XP Vista or Windows 7 Processor Quad Core 30 Ghz Memory 2GBHard Disk Space 8GBVideo Card ATI Radeon 3800 512mb NVIDIA 8800 512mb Direct X Direct X 9c Sound Direct X compatible soundcard ...

Beans calls her dad ' Gadgetman' because of the weird & wonderful gadgets he comes up with
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1955 When Mirabelle Bevan is rescued from a fire at her home on the Brighton seafront she's lucky to escape unharmed
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Johnny Vince has retired from the Special Forces
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The Linebacker II campaign of 1972 saw America's fearsome but irreplaceable B-52s finally sent into action above the Vietnamese capital Hanoi in an attempt to bomb the Vietnamese to the negotiating table 96 pages Michel III Marshall ...

Field Marshal Montgomery's plan to get Second British Army behind the fortifications of the German Siegfried Line in 1944 led to the hugely ambitions Operation Market-Garden Part of this plan called for a rapid advance from Belgium through Holland up to & across the lower Rhine by the British XXX Corps along a single road already dominated by airborne troops Their objective along this road was the bridge at Arnhem the target of British & Polish airborne troops Once XXX Corps had reached this bridge it would then make for the German industrial area of the Ruhr The operation was bold in outlook but risky in concept Using specially commissioned artwork & detailed analysis Ken Ford completes his trilogy on Operation Market-Garden by examining this attack which if successful could have shortened the war in the west considerably Yet it turned out to be a bridge too far ...

A RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB SELECTIONOne April morning in 1943 a sardine fisherman spotted the corpse of a British soldier floating in the sea off the coast of Spain & set in train a course of events that would change the course of the Second World War Operation Mincemeat was the most successful wartime deception ever attempted & certainly the strangest It hoodwinked the Nazi espionage chiefs sent German troops hurtling in the wrong direction & saved thousands of lives by deploying a secret agent who was different in one crucial respect from any spy before or since he was dead His mission to convince the Germans that instead of attacking Sicily the Allied armies planned to invade Greece The brainchild of an eccentric RAF officer & a brilliant Jewish barrister the great hoax involved an extraordinary cast of characters including a famous forensic pathologist a gold-prospector an inventor a beautiful secret service secretary a submarine captain three novelists a transvestite English spymaster an irascible admiral who loved fly-fishing & a dead Welsh tramp Using fraud imagination & seduction Churchill's team of spies spun a web of deceit so elaborate & so convincing that they began to believe it themselves The deception started in a windowless basement beneath Whitehall It travelled from London to Scotland to Spain to Germany & it ended up on Hitler's desk Ben Macintyre bestselling author of Agent Zigzag weaves together private documents photographs memories letters & diaries as well as newly released material from the intelligence files of MI5 & Naval Intelligence to tell for the first time the full story of Operation Mincemeat ...