Our reviewers found ArmA 3 to be a satisfying experience overall, but some people - myself included - actually look more forward to the singleplayer experience. ArmA 2's singleplayer campaign was quite buggy, mostly due to the weak and accident-prone AI, but it was still a fun and certainly ambitious component that was sadly overlooked by far too many people. More importantly, it was open to co-op play!
While ArmA 3 launched without a campaign component, it was the plan all along to release a campaign in three free "episodes" after the game's launch. According to a new press release from developer Bohemia Interactive today, the first of these DLCs is titled 'Survive', and will be releasing on October 31. Creative director Jay Crowe describes a scenario that is very similar to the one we experienced half-way through ArmA 2's campaign.
"Our first campaign episode, 'Survive', introduces players to Ben Kerry, a regular soldier who's part of a NATO peacekeeping mission in the Mediterranean. Following a couple of years of uneasy cease-fire, this US-led deployment is now in the process of a staged drawdown. The vacuum left by withdrawing forces is being rapidly filled by the opposing CSAT faction, creating the conditions for, one might say, a flashpoint"
Crowe makes it clear that, while the singleplayer campaign on its own gives players more to fluff around with, it should also help modders and content-makers on their way to creating new missions, mods and other things to keep the game interesting for countless more hours. The campaign will ship with new weapons, scripted modules, animations and other things that modders can take full advantage of. Neat!
Just to make it clear one last time, all three campaign episodes will be free to you if you own ArmA 3. While you wait for October 31 to arrive, you can check out the new promotional screenshots in the gallery below.
Posted 11-10-2013, 19:13
Toast: SOME of the campaign missions? ALL of them. The AI ruined the campaign. Too bad, really. It was damn good, apart from the bad AI and the suspect performance during the biggest battles.
Posted 11-10-2013, 19:00
You guys are just serious cheapskates, you "Review" titles just for free games, you rarely ever mention the serious quirks and issues and Arma 3 is EXTREMELY flawed.
Especially in regards to multiplayer, and its shitty fucking engine that still is singlethreaded. But nope, its fine and dandy.
Do a full review of Arma 3 please, that is -including- multiplayer, and list the specs, on atleast 2 machines and let it not be some hardcore arma fanboy or Jenssen, cause that guy dont mind 30fps.
Have fun trying out Wasteland on Altis, and enjoy your 20-30fps gameplay.
Even on lowest settings, even with all the tweaks possible and commandlines, you'll still get poopy framerates.
But noooope its a 4/5 game!
A WHOPPING FOUR OUT OF FIVE! ITS DAMN NEAR PERFECT!
Same as ROME 2, the most broken TW game to date. Even surpasses Empire in terms of bugginess. And yeah, I like Arma and Total War, I own all Tw games but Rome 2, wouldnt touch that even if Nick Thomadis, creator of Darthmod fixed it, shame though, he retired you know, so there wont be any darthmod to fix all issues caused by CA, shame one cant fix the performance issues and making it multicore :/
And Arma 3 is just less of what Arma 2 was, we got alot more content in Arma 2 (release) than we got from Arma 3.
Posted 11-10-2013, 08:43
@XiDiO: ikr>! It's almost like opinion is subjective or somet6hing
Posted 11-10-2013, 01:55
Hopefully they actually script things properly this time, ARMA 2 with some of its campaign missions were pretty buggy at times.
Posted 11-10-2013, 01:18
Maybe, we'll have to wait and see (though we aren't reviewing it)
Posted 11-10-2013, 00:44
Jenssen, I paid 19 bucks.
You waited until they reised the price. Lmfao.
Stunt and Jenssen will give the campaign a rating of 4.5/5.
Posted 10-10-2013, 23:10
The sooner the better. I want to play the SP.
Posted 10-10-2013, 22:43
In the future, may I suggest you don't pre-order games that you are unsure about, Xidio.
Posted 10-10-2013, 21:23
Jenssen x XiDiO
Still a better lovestory than Twilight
Posted 10-10-2013, 19:37
Still runs like ass.
But what can you expect from a 4/5 game with an engine as old as jenssen.