Codemasters' Operation Flashpoint 2 vs BIS' 2006 Sequel - Round 1

The Codemasters’ Community Liaison Officer has unoficially confirmed that they will use the Operation Flashpoint 2 name for an upcoming game published by them!

This upcoming game has nothing to do with BIS upcoming Sequels and is (or will be) developed by an unrevealed development studio.

That’s not very surprising to see that Codemasters wants to make some profits using their “Operation Flashpoint” registered trademark, but we can sincerely wish them to find a very skilled development team, else there’ll be some flamebaiting in the air soon…

You can read the Codemasters’ Community Liaison Officer full post that

he posted on the Codemasters forums in this thread.

Operation Flashpoint fans are hardcore military fans….they are the people that love realism, decent core gameplay and an involving storyline….we know that. Now to make a BF42 clone for the Flashpoint community which has built up over the lat 5 years would be the most inappropriate thing a company could do, plus insulting to top it off. Flashpoint 2 will be a Flashpoint game for Flashpoint fans, period.
We want to bring the game on to the next generation of realism and immersiveness. We have alot of feedback from the community about what they want to see in the game and this has been incorporated in our Design and Development process and we will deliver on the promise.
I personally cannot comment on the BIS game and won’t start a playground argument about it. I have a good relationship with Placebo and wish to maintain that.