Battle at Le Port (Operation Flashpoint:Elite, Xbox)

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Video: 'Battle at Le Port' Trailer
Author: Max Qubit
System: XBOX
Game: Operation Flashpoint:Elite
Audience: OFP:E gamers
Mission: http://www.maxqubit.com/ofpe/100vs100.jpg

Started as a tech demo of beating the 'construction points limit' of the XBOX version of Operation Flashpoint (by using OFP on PC to create the mission and then transfer it to the Xbox)

Strangely enough the cap has a certain melodramatic feel, 80+6 versus 80 means a lot of dead bodies. When in process of mixing i hit upon Adagio of Barber (music score of Platoon). Great stuff.

Turned out to be more than just showing the beyond-the-construction-points-limit stuff. Immersion, madness of war ... well, have a look yourself ... 'Battle at Le Port'

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Added comment on 13 march 2007:

Although the basic mission design was very simple, the video keeps being very impressive to me. The combination of convincing AI, grand scale map, animations like binoculars, salute and sit plus the masterpiece music creates an anti-war atmosphere which is very powerful. Amazing to realize i edited this video out of a single run of the mission in which i myself didn't fire one single shot.

To feel sorry for the waste of virtual lifes of (AI) soldiers who desperately try to capture or defend the town of 'Le Port' is an emotion i never expected to be possible but nevertheless is invoked by this Elite mission.

One could argue that there are more game video's which create this atmosphere but the big difference is that most of those video's are directed/scripted. 'Battle at Le Port' is a virtual battle of AI versus AI with no further scripting or directing, but just observing how virtual AI soldiers try to 'stay alive' ruled by a collection of programmed rules.

-- Max Qubit

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Operation
• Flashpoint
• Elite
• Armed
• Assault
• Madness
• War
• Xbox
• 360
• Anti-War

[know7edge1]

I still play this everyday on xbox !!! Classic

[maxqubit]

@know7edge1 ... is that true? I'm impressed:)

[know7edge1]

@maxqubit .......I'm serious...I just made 5 really good missions today !!!!

[maxqubit]

@know7edge1 Good to hear man. Mission making is fun. Sweet memories:)

[josh5dude]

lol this song is from platoon XD

[maxqubit]

@josh5dude. It is a classical piece by Barber which was used as music for the Platoon movie. (but true, i first heard it in the movie Platoon too;)

[tdavies456]

i think the graphics look pretty decent for a game of its age

[armytaskforce11x]

i love war simulators

[WhiteShadow230]

@know7edge1 Its good to know you still play it and I hope others still do too, I play the PC version of it mostly (still got the gold edition from back in 2001 heh) and every now and then on the old XBOX.

[oliverxboxable]

@ItsGabeTime maybe because, IT'S 8 YEARS OLD DUHHH.

[ItsGabeTime]

can someone please tell me why this game is not for xbox 360?

[TheDJSTALKER]

@RamboJohn0123

You are retarded and should be shot. First of all you are idiots playing a military sims with a controller instead of mouse, and 2nd of all ...well you are just retarded.

[RamboJohn0123]

PC version sucks



[Pattonash]

Look at the machineguinner at 6:20. He runs into the shot and the director is telling him to GTFO