ARMA 3 EXTENDED EDITION WORTH IT SIMULATOR

This is normally the part where I'd lead in with a description and some light teasing about the single player campaign, but sadly the single player appears to have gotten a bit tipsy and fallen into a ditch because it isn't actually there at all. It's easy to just dismiss this as one for the hobbyists and call it a day, but I feel it's probably better to investigate what the average consumer might gain from the game.

ARMA 3 EXTENDED EDITION WORTH IT SIMULATOR

So in much the same way that Euro Truck Simulator never had missions in which you ram a competitor's truck off the road or race a light aircraft across Europe, Arma 3 doesn't include ridiculous quick-time-event fight sequences with eyepatch-wearing Russian masterminds. Unlike such titles, however, you aren't bringing in the harvest or delivering paraffin to Lancaster in the driving rain, but instead wallowing in the more familiar gaming territory of exacting military-approved murder upon your fellow man via miscellaneous ordinance. And shot by somebody they never saw.ДЇor the uninitiated, Arma 3 is the tactical first-person shooter equivalent of games like Euro Truck Simulator or Train Simulator: a quiet endeavour towards realism and authenticity over the troublesome business of gameplay design. Arma 3 earns a gold star, then, for having actual gameplay that showcases why sending people off to join the army is a bad idea вЂ“ specifically because they'll be overwhelmed by tedium for hours on end. Gameplay is much more conducive and solid in that respect: a horror game with an unnerving story is good, but a horror game that forces you to do something unnerving is much more deserving of being pigeonholed thus.

That was all just storytelling, though, and stories are unreliable things that are open to interpretation. Spec Ops gets the honorary mention for its story arc and that particular scene, of course, but even the latest Call of Duty had a modicum of self-awareness nestled amongst all the rampant nationalism. I'm prepared to forgive their butchery of the first-person shooter, see, because it seems they've finally grown up enough to try and convince people that war is shit. You know, I'm starting to feel like modern military shooters might be finally doing some good in the world.

Arma 3 extended edition worth it