Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered
Moderate overall intensityWhat's in it
The player fights human soldiers with realistic firearms, tanks and vehicles; hits produce blood and bodies remain on the ground, but there is no dismemberment or gore.
The Cold War campaign depicts battlefield death, including named squadmates and characters killed as the story unfolds.
Occasional mild profanity appears in soldiers' radio and mission dialogue.
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What it is
Arma: Cold War Assault Remastered is a modernized 64-bit rebuild of the 2001 military simulation originally released as Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The player fights as an infantryman, tank crewman and pilot across two open islands during a fictional Cold War conflict, using realistic weapons and vehicles in large, non-linear missions. Combat is against human enemy soldiers and produces small blood effects, with bodies that remain after death but no gore or dismemberment. The campaign carries a somber war tone in which named characters are killed. A built-in mission editor and long-standing mod support let players create and share their own scenarios, and the game supports online multiplayer with open voice and text chat on community-run servers.
How it's framed
The game frames combat as realistic Cold War soldiering rather than spectacle: firefights are lethal and often lopsided, comrades die, and the campaign presents war as costly and grinding rather than heroic. Killing is the central mechanic and is treated matter-of-factly, without reward for harming non-combatants.
Details
- Developer
- Bohemia Interactive
- Publisher
- Bohemia Interactive
- Released
- Aug 8, 2011
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