[OFP] Hamburger Beach by Ex-RoNiN

Review by kuro & SpecOp9

Overview

The Overview did not explain to me what the mission was about. But Ex-RoNiN gave us a small background on what the character's plans are after a fun time at home with his girlfriend. The picture was small and blurry, and I did not really care to see what it was a picture of.

Intro

This Intro basically shows your character driving down a long, long road to the song "Born to be Wild", after saying goodbye to his girlfriend. But the intro has very few scripted cameras, and it was not that much of a joy to watch. After two minutes of watching the drive back to the military base, your commander yells for you to get in the briefing room immediately.

Briefing

Clustered and hard to read. It would be nice if he organized it some more and gave it some break-lines. Overall, it helped me understand what exactly I was doing. The Notes reveal an interesting part of the small story line Ex-RoNiN implemented into the mission. He hopes to marry his girlfriend after the mission, if he returns.

Mission

The mission began in the Higgens boat, getting ready to assault the beach. Ex-RoNiN tried to give this something of a Normandy beach battle beginning, but he failed. The battle ambience Ex-RoNiN used was horrible: it sounded like he recorded a battle scene from an old Western film, with the sound up full blast, inside a bedroom. The sound was not only bad, but annoying because it NEVER ended and it was very hard to focus while playing the mission.

As I made my way up the beach, with constant deaths, I had 2 units left in my squad, and man, that was not a good thing! I came across many Armored vehicles that blasted me out of the sky, so I had to scavenge for some LAWs and Strela Launchers to take them out. This was not an easy task, but it was interesting to do because of my shortage of ammo and units.

Everything about the mission seems pretty good. But the Sound will make you throw your speakers on the ground and hope the horror stops.

Outro(s)

Finally, I won the battle. The Chinook evacuates me after reports of a convoy heading in my general direction. This Outro was pretty nice actually. But it was long, like the Bike driving in the Intro. In slow motion, as we fly over sea, a Shilka, comes out of nowhere and shoots the Chinook down. The reason why it was cool, was because the bullets the Shilka fired flew by the Chinook in slow motion, reminding me of The Matrix or Star Wars. The Outro finally ended with a bunch of POWs getting executed.

Overall

(Review Date: June 2003) The mission has some faults, mostly the sound, and a few long boring cutscenes that took a while to end. If you are a true OFP fan and only play missions for the gameplay, this is the mission to get. If only this mission had a few BETA tests and fixes, it would make me happy to keep.