Red River’s story starts off with an easy task as you are simply sent to do kind of a clean up mission, taking out insurgents that have fled from the war on Afghanistan. With the game being completely supported with up to 4 player co-op, whether it is the campaign or the Fireteam Engagement Missions, which are short missions that range from different types of scenarios you’ll have to carry out.
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The story of the game doesn’t have a lot to it but it is the essential battle and realistic gameplay that the series has always relied on to give fans an enjoyable experience. You are no longer dropped into battle with iron sights expected to pick off enemies many meters away on top of that the game just has a general feel of being smoother, even though it might not be technically there.
This is a lot to say considering that Codemasters did away with online versus all together. There is no comparison, as Red River far exceeds Dragon Rising in too many ways to say, while keeping that Operation Flashpoint style of realism intact. Still, considering the slew of pure run-and-gun shooters out there now, it’s refreshing to see a console title that gives you a little bit of squad-leader-esque tactical control.The last Operation Flashpoint game that was released was Dragon Rising and I have to say with the release of Operation Flashpoint: Red River, Codemasters has come a long way. If that target happens to be shooting at you, good luck not ending up with a head wound. Since the game doesn’t have an overhead map on which you can issue orders like, say, in Valkyria Chronicles, you’ve also got to be looking right at the target you want your guys to attack, or the building you want them to secure. While this is a noble idea, and works well when things are pretty peaceful (such as when you’re setting up a perimeter), it’s not very effective to be futzing around with a complex, recursive set of commands when you’re trying not to get your head blown off. Pressing a trigger opens up a radial menu that you’ll navigate through (it’s got a couple of levels of specificity) to choose what team members should go where. Red River tries hard to make it easy to assign complex tasks to your team via its “orders wheel” interface. Enemies, too – although they were preternaturally accurate with their weapons – would often stand stock still on a hillside or in an equally visible location, just waiting to get mowed down by M4 fire. Many was the time we’d need to end a mission by killing our AI comrades because their pathfinding algorithm got them stuck on some geometry and they couldn’t cross the trigger area to move on to the next mission.
This sort of cooperative gameplay is great, not just because it’s more fun than playing alone, but also because Red River’s AI sucks so bad. As Red River is fully cooperative, up to three of your friends (or random dudes from the internet) can jump in and jump out of any campaign mission at any time. Things go from hairy to hirsute pretty quickly, and you end up fighting local insurgents, organized terrorist groups and, eventually, the People’s Liberation Army.
In the main campaign you play as one of four US marines newly sent from Afghanistan to Tajikistan in a fictional conflict along that country’s border with China.
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