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Codemasters' long-in-development Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising title was announced about two years ago. We thought we might get to play the military shooter follow-up sometime this summer but a new chat on IGN has revealed we will have to wait a few more months before the game is released.

The interview with the game's executive producer Sion Lenton has him state, " . . .we're now investing additional development time on the project. We'll be working right through the summer to deliver all formats this autumn." In addition to the revised release time table Codemasters has released new screenshots for the game that we've added to our gallery.

Bohemia Interactive's semi-feud with Codemasters could be coming to a head soon. Bohemia, who created the original Operational Flashpoint game for Codemasters before going on their own with their own military shooter series ArmA, has announced that the sequel, ArmA II, will now be released on June 26 in Europe (no US release date has been revealed).

Bohemia also sent over new screenshots from the game showing off more of the pretty realistic looking action from the full version. As we have reported before, Bohemia has objected to Codemasters using the Operation Flashpoint title for their own realistic military shooter Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, even though there's actually very little Bohemia can do to stop it. Codemasters's game is due out sometime this summer.

Codemasters' upcoming military shooter Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising has been getting a lot of attention this year. Today the publisher issued six new screenshots from the summer 2009 title. showing off more of the
extremely realistic near-future war on an island between United States and Chinese forces.

Until very Codemasters had been using the title Operation Flashpoint 2 to identify the game with Dragon Rising as its sub-title. It now appears that Codemasters has dropped the "2" when referring to the game on their official web site and in press releases. Earlier this year the original game's developer Bohemia Interactive, slammed Codemasters in an official press release for calling Operation Flashpoint 2 the "official" sequel (even though Codemasters made their intentions clear when they announced the game two years ago).

This short Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising video was shown at E3 2008 and illustrates the incredible amount of detail that goes into realism. A tank rolls onto the screen and fires off a few shots. The video is slowed down to show the realistic fire and smoke physics as the shell leaves the barrel.

Download the HD Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising Tankfire trailer (14 MB)

Players familiar with the first Operation Flashpoint should know it as an open-ended military shooter. The sequel, Dragon Rising, continues to deliver a grand scope of combat to make players feel like actual soldiers fighting in a real environment. Dragon Rising takes place on the oil rich island of Skira, which sits north of Japan off the coast of Russia. Where there are resources, there's conflict, and both Russia and China vie for control over the land. America maintains a small consulate and a handful of marines on the island to protect its commercial interests, but the spark of conflict threatens to ignite a war when soldiers from the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) start landing on the island to stake a claim.