There is a new and much cov­eted title amongst the piles of games at UCHG HQ. A game so great that not only has it got Brad end­ing every phone call with “Solid copy on all. We are Oscar Mike!”; it has become his Game of the Year! Brad is away, but has man­aged to trans­mit a pic­ture back from the front line -

Ladies and gen­tle­men, may we present Brad’s Game of the Year 2009

Operation Flashpoint 2 Dragon Rising

Now con­sid­er­ing that Hitman Blood Money has been Brad’s game of the year for the past 3 years, Dragon Rising has got to be some­thing pretty spe­cial to have swayed his nar­row and vio­lent mind!

Codemasters have gone all out with this game, tak­ing all that was great about the orig­i­nal Flashpoint and insert­ing it neatly into every­thing that Far Cry 2 should have been. The end result is a gritty real­is­tic tac­ti­cal shooter that allows you to wage all kinds of war over a truly breath­tak­ing open-world environment.

It really is a game of bib­li­cal pro­por­tions, and proudly pro­claims to take the gamer as close to war as they’ll ever want to get! It will have you on the edge of your seat as you sneak past an enemy that greatly out­num­bers you; it will place you on the verge of an adren­a­line induced heart attack as you fight through vil­lages as part of a large armoured force; and it will also make you shout at peo­ple from every­day life in the style of US Marine fire team leader!

One of the games major boner-inducing tools is the option to, when avail­able, call in Fire Support! That’s right, you’re able to call in the big guns or order up an air strike, all at the click of a mouse, and it is noth­ing short of out­stand­ing in every way. The only draw back is your enemy also has access to the heavy weapons and being mortared is an expe­ri­ence likely to make you wet yourself.

Operation Flashpoint 2 Dragon Rising has even retained the co-op mode that made its older brother so great. So when your done beat­ing the hell out of the Chinese in the sin­gle player mode, and the blood has returned to your head, you can do it all again with your mates!