Tim Wang's eLearning Blog

The Chinese military recognizes there is a large crowd in the force are game players – young people who grew up with Nintendo, Play Station and Personal Computers. They are currently planning to use some of the well known multi-player video games such as Operation Flashpoint to train the soldiers for real time combat situations. Of course this type of Virtual Battlefield Systems has been widely adopted by military agencies round the world. The US Marine Corps has well adopted the technology based on the Operation Flashpoint-technology long ago.

Operation Flashpoint is a tactical shooter and battlefield simulator game released in 2001. It sets the background in the year 1985 on an fictitious island. The difference between this game and other first person shooter games is that it focus on weapon training, tactic training and strategy training. Operation Flashpoint even allows the players to design their own battlefield settings which can expand from deserts to city tunnels. The game is equipped with large database of various roles in a battle team. Properly design your team and apply realistic war tactics is the key to win the simulation.