One of the most detailed and unforgiving FPS military sims I have ever played. This is no ordinary shooter, in fact it is a highly complex simulator that requires patience, not only to learn all the very many commands, but also to complete missions. You cannot expect to go into the front line with all guns blazing; rather, use tactics and stealth to complete your objectives, and look after your squad! One of the most neatest things about this is that if you take a hit, usually its over unless one of your squad can give first aid to help you back up - there are no power or health packs lying around, its up to your squad to administer first aid. Such a neat touch.

Graphics are very good, although you do need a half-decent PC to run it at its best, so be aware about this. Some bugs, but not too annoying and its been patched now so most of the game breaking problems have been eradicated. Good game.

If you want to play a real war-simulation this is the closest you can get in my opinion.

The vanilla-version is awesome but with some mods like A.C.E etc. this game becomes 500% more epic.

I've played many many hours of this games and all the "DLCs" of it and it never gets boring. So much stuff to do and think about, just not run'N'gun, jump down a cliff and do headshots with a sniper at the same time.

I love it.

Buy it, be patient, and you will soon start to love it. If your looking for realism this is the game to get!

Great developers that support the game and patch it regularly even though they are also working on the upcoming ArmA 3.

Great community.

Great player made mods.

Great realism, immersion, and fun.

If your looking for a Afghanistan themed FPS, buy ArmA 2 Operation Arrowhead or buy both.

By now, this game is very ironed out and well worth its money. Its feeling is totally different from any other shooter on the market. While I enjoy the occasional COD match, this feels like real combat, people shooting each other at big ranges, firefights lasting minutes without hitting much etc. I love it.

That's not to say it's perfect, but this genre deserves support!

ArmA2 is a great milsim game that is unfortunatly a bit of a let down due to overcomplicated controls and interface. The graphics looks good and the sound is at times amazing. The thing that keeps ArmA2 from getting a better score is the fact that with these contols it isnt much fun to play.

ArmA2 is a military sim, basically it could be described as an extremely detailed FPS, that is however also extremely slow paced. The game is pretty good in terms of immersion and gameplay, however bugs and the sometimes too slow pace make me unable to enjoy it too its fullest when I have to climb the same hill for the 3rd time taking me another 20 minutes, because a script wouldn't fire.

Um jogo bastante original e sem igual, pena não estar suficientemente optimizado para correr de forma mais leve e sem bugs. Mesmo assim vale bem a pena experimentar, não há outro simulador de combate semelhante a este...

ArmA 2 is a very intersting mix of an FPS Shooter and a Military Simulation, the Engine is very impressive and relatively solid.

If you dont expect a CoD-style Shooter and if you can live with a relatively "bare-bones" Singleplayer Campaign mode there is lots of fun to be had in Multiplayer with friends or just on random Servers.

While the Campaign is very basic and you shouldnt expect a ground breaking story it still teaches you all there is in the Game in a better way than a simple Tutorial would do.

Please Note that the Game is insanely complex and more suited for Hardcore Players than the average casusal Player ;-)

There are some bugs here and there, the AI isnt the brightest Light but sometimes does very smart things, most of the Problems are caused by the complexity of the game.

Still, there is lots of Fun to be had and if you enjoy a bit of tactics and realsim more than the average fragfest you should definetly grab this!

Solid 4 stars rating, not 5 because of slight technical difficulties and the abysmal UI.

Just a word of warning: This is a simulation, not an arcade shooter. It's difficult, slow, and unforgiving. If you want another CoD or BF, this is not the right game for you.

But if you are willing to learn a complex simulation and forgive some minor KI issues, you might be rewarded with an excellent military simulator.

The campaign is involving and interesting, the story is, compared to the warmongering, pro-US stuff from the CoDs, amazing. There is a lot of variety during the campaign, ranging from sneaky special ops stuff, to massive tank battles. Graphics are nice, sounds are great.

If you are interested in military sims, ARMA II is the way to go.

Arma II is a great game for those who likes simulators, because thats what it is. In this simulator you can´t play by yourself, you need your squad, and cover is a good allie, often it´s enough with one hit and you are so injured that you need medical attention or game over. The one man army is no option here you need your team.

There is a really powerfull mission editor where you can build simple missions with almost no experince, or real complex ones if you can understand the Arma II scripting.

The time in the editor far exceeds the time in the game if you get a hang of it, it´s really fun.

You can expand the game with free mods, missions, units, islands and more, all made by other users so the gameexperience last for a long time.

I can highly recommend this game for those who want a diffrent wargame where it´s a little closer to real war.

not for the COD fanatics, this game requires real patience and a basic understanding of military tactics.

This is a superb sequel to Arma, and i was glad to see the series return to eastern Europe. possibly the most open ended game i have ever played, no linear game play; complete missions how YOU want to.

This game is definitely worth purchasing, and with the almost unlimited potential for modifications; the playability is never-ending.

Great game, that is what I can say. I started playing this back in the days of Operation Flashpoint.

+Mod(s)(ability)

+Large scale: You can have a thousand units set up fighting each other in the mission editor if you want.

+Graphics are ok.

+BI Studio supports there games very well with patches

+Content: There is a lot to try out in this game.

-AI; yeah the foe & your friends can behave quite stupid.

-Feeling: the controls & movement are different from the average arcade shooter. You have to get used to it.

-Multiplayer: the multiplayer scene is unfortunately not that big and most of the times people play COOP missions while I am a big fan of player versus player missions. The warping of players ingame is annoying as well.

An excellent sequel to OFP (Operation Flashpoint) and ARMA. It is a simulation, not a fps ! (have this in mind when you play it).

Recent patches have made the game almost entirely bug free, so it is really enjoyable now.

Map is huge, some campaign mission will let you to explore it a lot.

Multiplayer is very exiting also, when you can find server with dozen of people to play with.

There are already a lot of mods for this game, including many missions and some campaigns (with ports from Arma and OFP).

A good simulator game any good gamer should have

Refrained to buy this one early due to some mediocre reviews on the initial release. Playing with patch 1.04 now and I enjoy it thoroughly. Especially if you liked the original operation flashpoint from Bohemia Interactive you will digg this one. The believable environment is second to none. Very tense gaming, glad I bought this finally. I had to patch it first with 1.03 and than with the 1.04 patch. While the downloaded version 1.02 worked fine on my box, patching only with the 1.04 patch stopped my install from working. (So probalbly better keep the installer files until you have patched your version.)

Arma 2 is a great game and the modding community helps it staying that way. The modding community are bringing new content to especially the multiplayer part of the game every day! The game (both multiplayer and singleplayer) is still a bit buggy though 2 patches has fixed most major problems. Other bugs will hopefully be fixed in the (near) future.

The gameplay is also much slower and much more realistic than most FPS games - witch is to my liking.

This could have been a 5 or even 6 star in my opinion.

But the game was released before it was even finnished, i doubt they even tested it.

The great thing is the random missions of downed pilots needing rescue, escort missions etc that may show up during game play, if it actually worked.

You get the missions but cant complete half of them due to bugs.

Same with the missions and the support like artillery barrage and helicopter you are granted from the HQ.

There are more support eventually but the bugs prevent me from getting any further.

I do like the fact that you control a small Reconnaissance Team, because you get all these missions but you decide in which order you want to complete them, and some times you need to search for your targets, and that might take some time.

But it do not get boring while searching as the enemy are never at the same place, the AI got their own objectives each time and you might run in to them any where, if your not careful they ambush you, and one grenade later your Humvee is in flames and HQ need to look for your teams body parts all over the village.

The landscape is really well done and its huge, graphics are very good, some of the animations looks a little stiff.

The voices in combat you can hear its patched together and each sentence is in a different tone, but that's because its not scripted so the AI need to find the word that fits with what he sees there and then.

If they fix it, its a great game, now its a pain and i feel a little cheated for buying a broken game.