[OFP] A Touch of Frost by ACF

Review by Hawkins

Overview

Basic overview with a picture, doesn’t give much information about the mission itself. Continues onto the second page, which also has information about third party addons and how to save the game during the mission.

Intro

The Intro was very nice. It used some interesting camera angles and custom voices. The camera was used very wisely in my opinion and I didn’t get bored to it although I had to watch it quite a few times. This Intro also shows what kind of an effect custom voices can make. Watch and learn people.

Briefing

To some, the briefing might be a bit hard to understand, due to the shorter terms used, for example groups is grps. The first page tells the player to read everything, even the other two teams missions. Execution page has information about each teams mission and links to markers. Other available pages have more in depth information, which I urge you to read. If you don’t you might not be able to finish the mission.

Mission

This mission has a nice replay value, since the mission maker made it so that you are randomly chosen as the leader of the three squads. You actually have three different missions built into one, all from the eyes of different squads, with different missions.

From what I saw though, the only way to successfully complete the mission is to play as Alpha. First when I played with Charlie, I never saw Alpha or Bravo at the RV. When I played as Bravo, well things did go better, but not perfect. The OFP AI is rather unpredictable so I know how hard it is to make them do as told sometimes.

Outro(s)

The outro shows the training method the platoon used to rehearse for the mission. The same outro is seen on both loose and win conditions and it does fit nicely for both.

Special

Custom voices and the author's own custom addon (included in zip).

Overall

(Review version 1.00 - Date: Oct 2004) Custom sounds gave a really nice effect in this mission. Especially they show their true power in the intro. The mission also has custom radio voices and the extraction boats call out your name so you know which boat to board.

The scripting is nice, though not flawless. Sometimes I got two actions for the price of one in my action menu and such things. The random placement as leader of the squads works good, though Charlie usually gets most of the odds.

This is a nice mission with good scripting, though it would need some small polishing. Though, everything works and the mission can be completed. I recommend this one if you want “three missions in one” and a mission based on a real historical event.