Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead

where did all the time go :(

I wish I could go back in time and experience this game for the first time again. The community and game play was phenomenal. I remember the PC I was using could only run this game at like 12FPS. I would do it all again. so many memories...

Game is good but I think it borrows some assets from Arma 2 so some things can be glitchy without Arma 2 as well

great game better than normal Arma 2

Please descrive what you liked about this product:
EVERYTHING. I LOVE IT

been playing it for years

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i played this game for about 20 minutes so yeah it's really good.

the modding scene was fun back in the day, but these days not worth it

Classic.

Everything...with mods.

way easier to command the ai then arma 3 and better graphics then the base arma 2 game

Realism at its finest

A technical achievement trapped in digital amber, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead exists now as a historical curiosity and a vessel for modders. The military simulation that tried so hard to replicate reality now serves as an escape from it. Buy it if you're a digital archaeologist or need it to run a mod—otherwise, acknowledge that even virtual wars eventually end.

Yes

arma 2 operation arrowhead played few times it was cool but most people bought it for dayz mod.

awesome game still holds ups a decade later

Oh how many thousands of hours I've spent in these games editors and campaigns over the last 20+ years...

From OFP (2001), ArmA (2007), ArmA2 (2009), ArmA2:OA (2010), to ArmA3 (2013). Can't wait for ArmA 4, and going back to our cold war roots :)

Симулятор СВО на максималках. Если прошел все сингл миссии и компанию, то можно смело отправляться воевать за светлую сторону по контракту фармить деньги на ипотеку и машину. Однозначно стоит сыграть. Наиграл 1000 часов на пиратке в свое время, до сих пор умираю от любого чиха и ориентируюсь на местности как слепой котёнок

Все направление дерево 500 метров / из 10 возможных

this game is good if you want sandbox military sim and the community is very good

I still dont know what they mean by 'front'

Best in the series. I really hope someone revives a wasteland server.

Best game I've ever played. Thanks for the memories and lifetime friends I've made through you!

"Oh fuck that hurts!"

This is a niche DLC for a niche game in a niche genre. This game is 15 years old, yet I encountered no less than THREE (3) game breaking bugs in the FIRST mission. Twice the game froze and I had to ALT+F4, and the third time nothing was happening in the game. The NPCs are numb AF YET they seem to be playing a better game than us, seeing the objectives and ennemy clearly as we are left to guess where to go and just shoot at the red circle without seeing the ennemies.
While I was nice in my review of Arma2 itself because of its status of "classic", I will NOT be nice with this absolute waste of time and money that is Operation Arrowhead.
Conclusion: gift it to your worst ennemy.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☐ Good
☐ Decent
☑ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☑ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☑ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☐ Teens
☐ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☑ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☐ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☑ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☑ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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dayz its awesome had so much fun

buna ziua

Old game that still stuck on my heart

Best Game ever

I bought Arma X: Anniversary Edition, but this review also includes the original Arma 2. I play without any mods. I'll update this review if I spend more time in this game.

If Bohemia Interactive doesn't support their old games anymore, then it should make them completely free-to-play (and it should include all the downloadable content for free).

Arma 2 is an improvement over Arma: Gold Edition, but it has many problems, errors, and limitations to be a "hardcore and realistic war simulator".

Some examples (let me know if there are earlier 3D games with these features):

Delta Force from 1998 allows you to fire weapons that have backblast while being prone (it's possible in real life as long as nothing is behind the weapon; neither DF1, nor Arma 2 have damage from backblast), and has dual rendering for telescopic sights (and Comanche: Maximum Overkill from 1992 has dual rendering as the Target Acquisition System camera display/target display).

Delta Force 2 from 1999 has wind (which is only decorative in Arma 2) that affects trajectory of bullets, and has telescopic sights that can be adjusted for range (magnification doesn't reset). Delta Force: Black Hawk Down from 2003 also allows to adjust the mechanical sight of the M203 grenade launcher for range (very enjoyable to shoot). But not all sights that can be adjusted for range in real life can be adjusted in Arma 2. The rear sight of the RPK-74 can't be adjusted for windage in Arma 2.

GoldenEye 007 from 1997 allows you to "cook" grenades (in real life, it's done by removing the pin and releasing the lever while still holding the grenade in your hand for a second or less).

Hard Drivin' from 1989 has a working clutch pedal.

In Mafia: The City of Lost Heaven from 2002, you can enter or exit a vehicle by opening or closing its door, take almost any seat near a window, turn out, and shoot almost all guns.

The Need for Speed from 1994 has working mirrors.

Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Rogue Spear from 1999 has usable gun safeties.

WinBack from 1999 has an additional cartridge in the chamber (only the Benelli M1014 has this feature in Arma 2).

Yet this "simulator" doesn't have any (except the cartridge in the chamber) of these features above.

Reloading animations are very outdated. Slides of empty pistols now lock to the rear, however James Bond 007: Agent Under Fire from 2001 was one of the earliest games with non-empty (tactical) reloading animations.

You can't kill two enemies with one bullet from the Barrett M107 rifle in this game.

You can't punch or kick.

No anti-personnel mines, booby traps, stun grenades, melee weapons, incendiary/thermobaric weapons/ammunition.

The M1014 shotgun reloads unrealistically fast (8 cartridges in around 3 seconds). Weapons should have performance and sounds like in real life.

No loaders for M1A1 Abrams tanks, yet M1A2 Abrams tanks have them (however, they only use machine guns). Loader players could have pressed buttons or played a reloading mini-game (similar to that in World of Shooting from 2024) to operate guns.

Female civilians can't pick up and use weapons, go prone, walk while crouching, and drive many vehicles regardless of their in-game skill level, even though various armed groups around the world have always had female fighters in real life (I know that men are better fighters because of biology).

The slowest 2004 Škoda Octavia 1.4 has a top speed of 170 km/h in real life, but it has a top speed of 101 km/h in this game (it can't go any faster). Gameplay balance doesn't belong in hardcore and realistic simulators at all.

Crashing the Kawasaki/HDT M1030M1 JP8 motorcycle into the M1A2 Abrams tank at 85 km/h will only result in a damaged wheel, other minor damages, and minor injuries (the extended armor is disabled).

Unlike planes and helicopters, land vehicles in this game are very easy to control like in a casual driving game.

More problems:
No official in-depth guide that explains everything about the game.

BattlEye is controversial. The best anticheat is a competent administrator of a user-created dedicated (or LAN) server.

Quantity over quality.

Very few people still play the multiplayer mode. Bohemia Interactive can make the multiplayer mode much more populated by creating official servers and gifting various content (games, downloadable content, etc.) to players who play on these servers.

DLC packs have installation problems (now everything is installed on my PC) and inconsistency. For some reason, the Arma X collection, British Armed Forces and Private Military Company DLC packs are listed as separate games in my Steam library, but the Army of the Czech Republic DLC pack isn't.

Performance issues. Frame rates drop even on very low settings. Many players also report other technical problems.

No content from previous games.

Not vegan friendly.

The developers should have used system requirements of premium PCs of 2009 instead of common PCs during the development of this game.
https://www.crn.com/slide-shows/components-peripherals/222003039/the-top-10-pc-components-of-2010
https://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-geforce-roundup,2297.html
Arma 2's page. Scroll down to system requirements.

It's better for people to make their own free games, software, websites, and guides. Terry A. Davis made his own operating system (TempleOS) alone. Donations work as proven by the success of women content creators.

Classic

The Goat of all Dayz the most fun Ive had and was a real joy playing the game during the peak during my 20s

good game

good

gg

Great game

My friend who I play CS 2 with said if I post a review on this game and it gets 202 likes and 69 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 3060 and 2 Kilos of canned ham. So I'm just gonna leave this here. Help a brotha!

The best and jankiest expansion for a military game, ever made.

Dude i swear to fucking god they keep constantly changing the Game backgrounds in the library, i swear they are!! I'M NOT CRAZY!! (anyway good game, very fun when theres people actually playing and pretty worth it for the DayZ mod too.)

I like to crank hogs out for this game. what a world. Ill never forget the 2012 Rasman checkpoint insurgent kamikaze paradrop attack. RIP to all NATO and Civs that died on that fateful day.

lt doesn't work . l don't know what the problem is

hell yeah

No longer loads. Maybe too old for windows 11. Battle eye won't load. Oh well.

Unironically has the best modded and competent AI compared to A3 it's not even funny. COSLX with Wolfpack Realistic AI highly recommended when re-visiting this classic.

better than arma 3

you already know, this game add-on is the home of the OG dayz mod! R.I.P the good old days

One of the best games made

was really fun

I'm sure there are many who enjoy it, but it wasn't for me. More mil-sim than video game much of the time.