Armed Assault, First Look:::

Tried ArmA for the first time tonight, only the demo but its brilliant. Flashpoint on steroids.

Ive played the coop and multiplayer maps and both are brilliant fun, especially the Conquer The Island mode. Blasting across the countryside in a tank is great fun, well untill you come across 2 enemy tanks or a lone sniper that you cant see, Oh! lession 1 - never get out the tank to have a look around when said sniper takes a pot shot.

The targeting is similar to OP-Flashpoint in that it takes a load of practise to hit anything at more than 100 yards and considering a lot of the encounters start at around the 400 to 500 yard mark its fairly tense, but its balanced by the fact that 1 hit to the torso will drop your target.

The AI on both sides is impressive, the bad guys will try to flank you while one of them keeps you entertained with his heavy machine gun talents and armoured vehicles are panic encounters, if your on foot and in the open, your finished unless he targets your pals and if you have a lot of them, you might be able to make like Ben Johnson while the rest of them take one for the team.

Cant wait for this to be released, the Coop missions will suit this clan perfect and will be a welcome replacment for the Joint Ops mayhem of the past. Oh except i dont think you can respawn in ArmA CooP, so that will make it a lot less gung ho!.

Cheers