Tired of high octane, Hollywood shooters like Modern Warfare? Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is the antidote.

Like almost any war shooter you'd care to mention, Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising features a single player campaign (there's one mission in this demo), and a multiplayer option. Both offer the same high degree of realism and tactics, require patience and quite a lot of skill.

Realism is the key factor in Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. This means complicated controls, but consequently you really do have a lot of control in the game. As well as running around and shooting, you can give orders to your team (who are invaluable), and direct how you approach a mission. Close up combat is not the norm here, and you can't take bullets like an action movie hero.

The graphics are impressive, and the arena of play is huge. You'll need a good PC to run Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising smoothly, as if your machine only just meets the requirements, to be honest the experience is pretty horrible and jerky. Sound is as realistic as you will find in a shooter, and indeed it's invaluable during gameplay.

Multiplayer support is excellent, online or via an LAN network. Of course, you need other players who are cooperative, as this is a team game and you can't 'go rogue' and expect to succeed.

Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising is an excellent tactical shooter, which requires a great deal of time and effort to learn!

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Flash gives both presentations and websites a touch of class. The problem is, it's usually a pain to work with. FlashPoint attempts to make things a little bit easier.

If you have ever wanted the ability to create rich multimedia presentations for your website that are fast loading and work properly across browsers then FlashPoint is a solid option. The stand out feature is the fact that it's incredibly easy to use. Normally working in Flash can be pretty complicated but this program reduces even the most complex tasks into drag and drop operations. You don't actually work in Flash though - you work with your raw text, graphics and audio until you've got all the pieces in place and then simply convert to Flash.

The program also does a good job of compacting the final files into something that won't slow down visitors on the site, which is one of my biggest gripes with most flash websites. FlashPoint presentations are all saved in Flash format which are supported by all browsers.

It's hardly the most advanced or even well presented Flash presentation application out there but it's ease of use and small file outputs mean it's definitely worth a go, especially if you're unfamiliar with Flash.

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