"Arma: Cold War Assault," or for purists, "Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis," is one of the more celebrated cult classic games from the early years of PC gaming. And you can get it for free now as part of its 20th-anniversary celebration.
RockPaperShotgun reports that the game is free right now on Steam and GOG, where users can grab the classic title from Bohemia Interactive. The game was celebrating 20 years since the release of the original "Operation Flashpoint" title back in 2001. While considered a relatively confusing and buggy game, it was also hailed as an astonishing title for its time.
Visit the Steam page for "Arma: Cold War Assault" right now, and you'll be able to grab either by itself or as part of an "Arma" 20th-anniversary bundle that includes all mainline "Arma" games. "Cold War Assault" is also a part of the "Arma X: Anniversary Edition" bundle, whose limited time offer ends approximately 24 hours at the time of this writing. So grab it now!
As for GOG, it's the only place where you can grab the game without any DRM weighing it down. Visit its GOG page to learn more, where you can also grab a few extras along the way to checkout.
As part of the 20th-anniversary festivities, a select number of developers from the old studio that made the original "Flashpoint" game also did a live stream on YouTube, where the team reminisced on the good old days, and played a few rounds of "Arma: Cold War Assault." If you're a big fan of the "Arma" series and have been since its early 2000s heyday, you can go check it out.
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'Arma: Cold War Assault' And Realistic Portrayals of Warfare in Video Games
To say that the "Arma" franchise is the only video game series in the industry that portrays modern warfare in the most realistic way possible is a massive understatement.
Bohemia Interactive, whose latest release is the free-to-play loot shooter "Vigor," is one of the best developers when it comes to making games like "Arma: Cold War Assault"--games that people would unofficially call "combat simulators." And they were praised for giving gamers a relatively accurate depiction of being a lone soldier in a war.
Unlike the mainline titles that populate the market these days like Call of Duty, Battlefield, and other similar ones, the "Arma" games are more than "shoot the bad guys." In this game series, you take command of squads of fully armed troops, employ varied strategies across large-scale battlefields (some of which are actually bigger than what most modern games have), and even drive a fair amount of historically accurate war machines.
One game was actually considered realistic-looking enough that back in 2018, a certain Russian news agency mistook gameplay footage of "Arma 3" as real footage of the combat in Syria.
If you're looking for something a lot more different than just "shooting bad guys," then Bohemia Interactive has the right game for you. So grab it while you can!
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Written by RJ Pierce
