[ArmA] The Magnificent Eight by Gambla

The Magnificent Eight by Gambla

Mission details

Type Campaign
Player side West
Island Sahrani
Time of Day Mixed
Weather Mixed
Filesize 273.1KB

Mission requirements

Game ArmA v 1.14
Addons  
8/10

Overview - 9
Briefing - 8
Camera - 5
Scripting - 6

User rating

4.3/5


Added
24 Aug 2009

Views
5058

Downloads
818

Comments
4

Summary

You are a retired veteran from Vietnam. You end up vacationing on the island of Sahrani to find out your fellow soldiers have been captured. Now your on a mission to rescue them and bring them back alive.

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Review by NightJay0044

Overviews

The overview has very nice imagery. This makes it very atmospheric before playing. The short descriptions give you plenty of information regarding what each mission is about. The author has put the white borders around the images to make them more professional.

Cinematics

The beginning of the campaign offers a fair and good grip on what the campaign is about.  The rotation of the camera is good it captures the scene decently. The author was conscious about their movements when it came to that. One of the downsides to the intro at the beginning of the campaign was no music. It would have added great effect to the scene.


There are very short intros at the beginning of each mission just to give emphasis on the sniper being that he is the one that saves the day. Some of the missions the zoom in effect didn't create that great of a feature due to the fact the author didn't take into account the trees and having to look through the them almost every time. The author uses plain text effect in the missions. The cinematic could have used a little more touch, maybe a little more attention on the enemy throughout the campaign. Possibly to know a little bit about their movement only to what was necessary to reveal at the given situation.


It would have been a nice touch if at the beginning of the intro the author used his overview image after the beginning intro was over at the point where it says "Magnificent Eight" title. It would have been nice to see the image appear on the screen to give it a bit more effect. That would have increased the score. He could have also used a different style text to create a more artistic effect.


The cinematic serve as a good purpose for this campaign. Possibly the author could use a bit more rotation and angling effect. This would have been made possible if the author created more intros and outros. Basically more intros and outros would give this campaign a more artistic look.

Briefings

The briefings in this campaign serve very well. They are very consistent throughout the whole campaign. They all say the same thing but a different mission. The author uses the text and link to provide fair and up to date information. This score was nearly perfect and if the author used possibly some images in the briefing it would have been better.


Throughout the whole campaign the author defines, who, what, where, when, why and how the mission is to proceed. It gives really fair decent amount of data. The notes sections are used to the player's advantage. There is no weapons selection to this mission because it doesn't serve the correct purpose for it. For last but not least the objectives all ring tune upon completion.

Missions

The campaign offers a variety of great things. It has a weapons pool so you may continuously save your weapons, which in a way makes up for the briefing.  The author does bring out his creativity in this mission. In the mission SITREP it has a really good layout of the enemy position. As stated previously the beginning of the campaign could have used music to get the player more enticed into the whole ordeal. All the missions keep the same pace beginning and to the end.


In the campaign it offers plenty of difficulty. It requires the player to be stealthy and smart about the decisions he makes. If you keep in mind all the mission objectives and know how to handle the terrain it shouldn't be too difficult for the average Armed Assault player.  Your team status is saved throughout the whole campaign. So keep your men alive. This campaign is based off the books of The Magnificent Eight". It's what the story resides from. Enemies are placed very well. Use your surroundings to your advantage.


It offers good endings. The author has put creativity into it. The weather is usually good all around in all the missions. So keep in mind the objectives are not as easy as you may think. Keep your stealth up.

Special

Campaigns are rarely seen based off books, so this one has meaning and a good plot in it. So keep your toes and boots together and prepare yourself for this different style campaign.

Overall

In the long run this campaign serves as a very good source of game play and has consistent features that enable the player to feel like it's a professional campaign. This is a sniper special operations campaign for the players whom want to practice their stealth and covert op techniques.


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