Bohemia Interactive has released its free 5-vs-5 tactical first-person shooter Argo. In order to celebrate this announcement, Bohemia has also released the game’s launch trailer that can be viewed below. Argo deploys players to a re-imagination of Malden – the iconic island terrain from the first Arma game (originally titled Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis), which was released today sixteen years ago on June 22nd 2001.
The new Malden (also referred to as ‘Malden 2035’) spans 62 km2 of landmass, and with many of its unique locations having been designed to support Argo’s infantry focus, the new terrain is specifically suited for close-quarters combat. Malden 2035 features 15 towns and villages, and many other special points of interest such as an airfield, bunkers, a radio station, a goat farm, a fjord and rock formations, orchards and vineyards, a desert area, and more. In comparison to the original Malden, the number and names of the towns and villages, and all locations of hills, crossroads, gas stations, have remained the same. For those who do not remember or did not experience Arma’s first deployment to the island, Bohemia Interactive posted a new video in which someone people might know from the Cold War Crisis campaign, U.S. Special Forces veteran James Gastovski, shares his memories of his deployment to Malden back in 1985.
Argo is described as an Arma-based hardcore tactical multiplayer first-person shooter, in which players fight as mercenaries over the remnants of a crashed space station. The game features three competitive 5-vs-5 game modes (Clash, Link, and Raid), and based on their performance, players earn experience points, which can be used to unlock new weapons, weapon attachments, and gear. The game also features a 10-player cooperative game mode (Combat Patrol), where players need to team up to fight against AI in an open-world setting.
As a bonus, Argo includes a 3D Scenario Editor. Here players can set up their own military operations and alter or create game modes. Argo is available completely for free on Steam and will not require any form of payment to play the game.
Those interested can download Argo from Steam.
Enjoy!
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Free 2 play?
F#ck off.
well i dont see anything wrong with their model, the only thing you can purchase is purely cosmetic and completely optional. whats wrong with that?
Fee2play models are never about cosmetics
they’re always about the money and low effort multiplayer only games
Games are ALWAYS about money… its their job ffs.. they must eat and pay bills too
NO! games were created with passion, talent and creativity
games like mafia city of lost heaven, age of mythology, dishonored and heroes 3 were created by truely passionate people who valued consumer satisfaction
nowadays it’s all about the money, it’s about greedy publishers trying to nickle and dime every single cent with microtransactions, early access bull$hittery, pre-order cutcontent, multiplayer only.. the list goes on
the thing is, games stopped being about art, just like movies stopped being about art (compare lord of the rings trilogy to the hobbit trilogy, they MILKED the hell out of the hobbit book and added a ton of non-cannon $hit to kill screen time)
instead what do we have today? cash-grabs and political propaganda in video games, how far has my hobby fallen? when the creme of the crop developers like Arkane Studios and Dice fall to the SJW’s you know gaming is f**ked
the publishers buy up all the good studios and all we get is repedative unfinished SJW propagated betas , gaming is not about art anymore
it’s about money and political power
but hope remains in a handful of publishers that can bring back the light to this dark, ?transaction-choked industry
kingdom come, mount and blade bannerlord and 4A’s Metro exodus (hopefully deep $hitver won’t nickle and dime us too bad)
Sorry but while Mafia was a passion project, it was still all about making money.
that’s true, but every developer has to make a living right?
it’s that the MONEY shouldn’t be the FOCUS of the project
the project should be about quality, art, passion and such
money is only the reward, not the drive
Haha cause people’s livelihoods should be about the joys of gameplay right? Even if they go homeless not making money. FFS people are stupid
I think he would explode if he didn’t complain about “SJW’s” for a day.