Operation Flashpoint Red River Trailer

Codemasters today revealed the teaser trailer for Operation Flashpoint: Red River, the all-new chapter in the tactical shooter series coming Q2 2011. Now showing at www.facebook.com/flashpointredriver, the live action video features Johnny Cash’s classic ‘The Man Comes Around’ and sets the tone for the game. The Facebook page will also deliver briefings straight from the Studio along with news on the forthcoming gameplay reveal video, due next week.

Today’s teaser trailer reveals the creative direction for Operation Flashpoint: Red River. Taking viewers to the new setting of Tajikistan, two CH 53E Super Stallion helicopters carrying US Marines swoop along the Vakhsh River, showing the beautiful and epic landscapes which will become bloody battlegrounds in a deadly flashpoint. As one Marine films the unfolding action on his digital video camera, hostiles attack the helicopters, forcing evasive action and return fire from the rear gunners.

Inside the transports, the full fireteam – Grenadier, Scout, Rifleman and Automatic Rifleman – prepare for combat. Wearing battle-worn kit with field modifications, the Marines go through their own personal routine – checking weapons are locked and loaded, praying with Rosary beads or listening to music on their MP3 player. Every Marine gets ready for war their own way. The video concludes as the fireteam are inserted into the combat zone. For the Marines, this flashpoint is about to turn hot.

“Our goal is to take gamers as close to the experience of being a US Marine as possible, in both single-player and co-op,” said Sion Lenton, Creative Director, Operation Flashpoint: Red River. “From the tactics Marines use to the weapons they deploy and even the way that they interact with each other, this objective is core to everything that goes in the game. It’s this laser focus that ensures Red River will stand apart from tired corridor shooters and immerse players in a rewarding, tactical theatre of war.”

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