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* ''Operation Flashpoint : Cold War Crisis (2001)'': The game that started it all.

** ''Red Hammer (2001)'' : Mini-expansion pack by the publisher, Codemasters, that contains a new campaign depicting the conflict from the Soviet side.

** ''[[Arm A]]: Cold War Assault (2011)'': A free [[R EmakeRemake]] (or refurbishing if you will) mega patch (v1.99) for the original ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]'', released in celebration of the game's 10th anniversary by the developers. Because of the whole legal debacle with Codemasters, Bohemia Interactive reclaimed the rights to the assets. Applying this patch to an installed copy of ''OFP'' will therefore rename the game to ''ARMA : Cold War Assault''. The patch also [[Take That|removes the Codemasters-produced]] ''Red Hammer'' expansion and omittsomits it from new installations of ''Cold War Assault''. '''NOTE :''' Please '''[[I Am Not Shazam|don't confuse]]''' the original ''Operation Flashpoint'' with the ARMA series proper - it's only a predecessor and set in the same universe, but otherwise completely separate. The [[Insistent Terminology|new title]] [[Screwed Byby the Lawyers|is there only because BIS can't release the patch under the original name of the game, since it's now owned by Codemasters]].

For its two different [[Spiritual Successor|spiritual successors]], please see ''[[Arm A]]'' and ''[[Operation Flashpoint (Codemasters)]]''.

Not to be confused with the Canadian series ''[[Flashpoint (TV series)|Flashpoint]]''.

=== {{tropelist|The ''Operation Flashpoint'' series provides examples of the following tropes : ===}}

* [[Ace Pilot]] : Sam Nichols is actually a subversion. While he's pretty skilled in piloting various transport and attack choppers, he himself admits (and even [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]]) his inexperience in flying the A-10 Thunderbolt and other fixed-wing aircraft.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: ''Resistance'' has a very [[Tear Jerker|moving]] one.

* [[Broken Bridge]]: If you stray well beyond the initial warning to get back in formation (usually 1km1 km away), most early missions will instantly kill you and justify it by playing weapon fire noises after you die.

* [[But Thou Must!]]: The second mission in the Resistance campaign offers the player a choice to either help the invading troops' army by revealing the location of a member of the titular resistance, or be summarily executed. You can actually choose to help the invaders, and you're even given a unique mission to find the location of the resistance base. When you do, you're again given the choice to join them or carry out the mission. Of course, since the leader of the invading army is not a very [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness|rewarding leader]], he'll [[Rewarded Asas a Traitor Deserves|execute you if you carry out your mission]] anyway, so it's pretty much in your best interests to join the resistance.

* [[Cain and Abel]]: A map created by the in-game editor is stored on the disk in a directory. The directory name extension is a code to identify which map a mission belongs to: ''Eden'' for Everon, ''Abel'' for Malden, and ''Cain'' for Kolgujev. The desert island received ''Intro'', and Nogova received ''[[wikipedia:Noah|Noe]]''.

* The [[Cold War]] : The setting of the series, complete with a very "[[The Eighties|Eighties]] Cold War era" feel to it.

* [[Concealment Equals Cover]] : Averted. While hiding in bushes or tall grass makes you effectively invisible unless somebody directly stumbles upon you, giving away your position will still result in enemy troops targeting your hiding place. Hiding behind tree trunks, rocks, buildings, sandbag barriers or even just vehicles or dead bodies is the way to achieve cover (of course, stuff like vehicles can still be destroyed by anti-tank weapons, so they're not fully reliable protection against enemy fire).

* [[Continuity Nod]] : A lot in ''Resistance'' towards ''Cold War Crisis'', courtesy of ''Resistance'' being a [[Prequel]] to the latter and all... If you pay enough attention, you'll find out why Gastovski retired and where the Everon resistance got their weapons and equipment from. ''OFP'' also gets a lot of these nods from its successor ''[[Arm A]]''

* [[Distant Finale]] : The final (bonus) mission of the ''Cold War Crisis'' campaign is set 6 years after its events (in 1991) and focuses on a friendly reunion of the four main characters.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]] : The Republic of Nogova Island from ''Resistance'' is invaded by the Soviets on [[wikipedia:Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia|the 21st of August]]. The devs are Czechs. [[Creator Provincialism|Do the math.]]

** The whole atmosphere of "warfare on sparsely inhabited subarctic archipelagos" is very reminiscent of [[The Falklands War]] (except for the far larger presence of armouredarmored vehicles in land combat).

* [[Do Not Do This Cool Thing]] : Soundly averted, even though there are various [[Bond One-Liner|Bond One Liners]] uttered from time to time, occassionaloccasional jokes to lighten the mood and some heartwarming [[Fire-Forged Friends]] moments. The message is clear : [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|War is not exciting, it's unnerving.]] You're not a [[Boring Invincible Hero]] and you're [[Fighting for Survival]] as much as you're fighting to win against the enemy. See the [[War Is Hell]] entry as well.

* [[Do Not Run Withwith a Gun]]: It is possible to fire while running, but it's so terribly inaccurate that hitting anything is akin to winning a lottery. Nevertheless, AI soldiers can sometimes be seen doing it. Firing while walking is somewhat more practical, but only at the closest of ranges.

* [[Faction Calculus]] : Of the "three factions" variety.

** Subversive : The guerilla fighters (focus on stealth and clever ambushes; very little heavy weaponry and vehicles, often substituted for by civilian firearms and cars or by [[Enemy Exchange Program|captured weapons and military vehicles]]).

** Powerhouse : The Soviet troops (more variety in tanks; more versatile and hard-hitting [[APCs]] and helicopters, but with little variation).

** Balanced : The US NATO forces (only two types of tanks, but one of them is the strongest in the game; weaker and [[Crippling Overspecialization|overspecialized]] but somewhat nimbler [[APCs]]; better overall airpower, including troop-carrying helicopters of two different crew capacities).

*** However, note that some of the more unique aspects and strenghtsstrengths/weaknesses of the US and Soviet faction have been balanced out in the final, latest versions of the game by official patches with various official addonsadd-ons by the developer (e. g. the NATO forces originally lacked an AA vehicle like the Shilka, so they were given Vulcan M113s to balance it out; the Soviets lacked a good ground-attack helicopter comparable to the American Apache, so they were given an early version of the Kamov Ka-50, the V-80, etc.). With these changes, the more unique imbalance of the factions from the very first release has been heavily diminished. This made the NATO and Soviet armies a bit closer to [[Cosmetically Different Sides]] - but both of them still have enough strenghtsstrengths, weaknesses, differing specialties and unique units to subvert the aforementioned trope.

* [[False-Flag Operation]] : Guba's [[Genghis Gambit]] to hit one of the two superpowers with his stolen [[ICB Ms]]ICBMs, in order to provoke [[World War Three]], if his demands are not fullfilledfulfilled on time.

* [[Genre Busting]] : Especially when it first came out in 2001. There were nearly no serious war-themed simulation games back then. [[FPS]] games were still getting the hang of things like vehicular combat sections or adding more realism to the way weapons were used in-game. ''OFP'' already had things like huge continuous sandbox-style maps with no loading during a mission, both stealthy and confrontational infantry combat, iron-sighting, a slew of different ground-based, water-going or aerial vehicles available to the player, and showed the modern battlefield as an eerielyeerily tense and chaotic place, not a big pre-scripted set piece extravaganza centered around the player.

* [[Good Guns, Bad Guns]] : Pretty much averted, particularly in the campaign of the ''Resistance'' expansion pack, where you act as the leader of a [[La Résistance|resistance group]] [[Fighting For Aa Homeland|fighting to liberate his homeland]] from a recent Soviet invasion. Practically all the standard guns of your partisans are either Warsaw Pact or civilian/hunting models. Most of your arsenal is therefore identical with that of the Soviet soldiers. On the other hand, there is a subversion later on, when the freedom fighters manage to acquire aid from a local NATO garrison : After this, they can also use a small supply of western firearms (e. g. FN FA Ls, Steyr Augs and M21 sniper rifles).

* [[Gun Porn]] : A more tame example, but there's still lots of [[Cool Gun|Cool Guns]]s to admire (especially if you throw in some quality fan-made addonsadd-ons to expand the game's basic arsenal).

** [[Rare Guns]] : The Russian [http://world.guns.ru/smg/rus/pp-19-bizon-e.html Bizon SMG] and some of the grenade and rocket launchers are pretty good examples. The Bizon is unfortunately an example of...

** [[Anachronism Stew]] : Some of the firearms present. The M16 A2 is the standard assault rifle of the American NATO soldiers in ''Cold War Crisis'', whereas in the real 1985, it was a brand new version of the more ubiquotousubiquitous A1 and hadn't been fully distributed en masse to the regular branches of the US Army. Also, in the ''Resistance'' expansion, set in 1982, James Gastowski supplies Viktor Troska's partisan group with a few Steyr Aug rifles - even though they still aren't very widespread in the US armed forces and were fairly new back in the early 80s (the first marketed version was produced in 1977). Another firearm seen too early is the aforementioned Russian Bizon SMG, used by the Spetz Natz soldiers since the ''Resistance'' expansion. It's a pretty awesome gun - except for the fact it started being produced in the early 90s and couldn't possibly be used by Soviet troops ten years earlier. The Bizon was probably included because of balancing issues (to give the Soviets their own silenced SMG)... or just because of [[Rule of Cool]]...

* [[Heroic Mime]] : Averted. The protagonists of the campaigns regularly speak outside the cutscenes during crucial moments.

* [[Holiday Mode]]: In the first game, around Christmas time all of the small pine trees turn into Christmas trees, complete with presents. Also, some community members have made addonsadd-ons with Santa Claus and Jack Frost as playable units.

* [[Hollywood Silencer]] : Averted.

* [[Hyperspace Arsenal]] / Bottomless Magazines : Severely averted. In the original game, you could carry 1 rifle, 1 optional missile launcher, and you had 10 ammo slots (and a pistol holster with 4 ammo slots in the Resistance expansion). That meant that you were carrying a maximum of 300 rounds, and quite often you could be reduced to crawling around the battlefield frantically looking for more ammo.

* [[Improbable Use of a Weapon]] : Completely averted. Unlike in most other action or war games, ''OFP'' actually teaches you how firearms would be used in [[Real Life]].

* [[In -Joke]] / [[Shout-Out]] / [[Creator Provincialism]] : BIS threw tons of [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to both Communist-era Czechoslovakia and the late 20. century Czech Republic into the original ''[[Operation Flashpoint]]'' installments. Traditional Czech rural architecture and East Bloc era concrete buildings are practically everywhere, along with 1960s Czech buses, motorbikes, [http://www.volny.cz/nex/auta/obr-sk/praga-v3s.jpg Praga V3S army trucks], 1980s Škoda passenger cars and Zetor tractors. The local resistance groups use the Sa 58 as their standard assault rifle. The ''Resistance'' expansion in general takes the references [[Up to Eleven]].

** There's also an [[Easter Egg]] referencing [[MASH|M*A*S*H (television)|M*A*S*H]]. {{spoiler|You can find it on the medic tent.}}

** One of the most fondly remembered fan-made [[Game Mod|game mods]] added the Communist-era Czechoslovak army to the whole NATO-USSR conflict of the original games. This faction's campaign story was generally... [[Played for Laughs|less serious than usual]]...

* [[Just a Stupid Accent]] : The English dub of the series gives the locals a fairly stereotypical Slavic / Eastern European / [[What the Hell Is That Accent?|whatever]] accent. Oddly, Viktor Troska [[Not Even Bothering Withwith the Accent|speaks with a British accent]] (maybe [[Justified Trope|justified]] since [[Fridge Brilliance|he spent many years living outside of Nogova]] and working in various special forces, [[Fan Wank|maybe even the British SAS]]). The Czech dub of the game features everybody speaking without accents, while the Soviet characters are mostly dubbed by Russian native speakers in all versions.

* [[Law of Inverse Recoil]] : Averted hard. Everything but rocket launchers has appropriate amounts of recoil (depending on the weapon).

* [[Like Reality Unless Noted]] : The [http://community.bistudio.com/wiki/Category:Operation_Flashpoint:_Islands various fictional archipelagos] and the respective [[Ruritania|countries]] and [[No Communities Were Harmed|settlements]] that occupy their area. The islands have become an integral element of the series, since practically every game takes place there - not once do you leave them to fight in a [[Real Life]] location. The very existence of the islands makes the game's setting akin to an [[Alternate Universe]], and even helps kick-start the whole "[[Cold War]] gone hot" [[Alternate History]] plot.

* [[Meaningful Name]] / [[Bilingual Bonus]] : Viktor Troska from the ''Resistance'' expansion. "Troska" is Czech for [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|"(piece of) debris" or "(human) wreck"]].

** Every geographic name on Nogova is this to an extent (considering the locals and their culture are sort of a [[Fantasy Counterpart Culture]] to [[Commie Land]] era Czechoslovakia). It appears quite a lot of these names were made up for sheer [[Rule of Funny]]. The most obvious examples would be the villages of "Vidlákov" (which in English means something like "Hickton / Hicktown"), "Mokropsy" (lit. "Wetdogs"), "Dolina" ([[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin|"The Valley"]]) or "Kvilda" (probably from the verb "kvílit"-"to wail"; which seems pretty fitting, since it's a seaside hamlet with wailing winds). Some of the settlements have much more typical Czech names though (e.g. Modrava, Petrovice, Lipany).

* [[Military Alphabet]] : Used regularly by your squadmates, as well as the voiceover of your character when you're commanding a squad.

* [[Mook Chivalry]] : Averted 99 % of the time thanks to [[Artificial Brilliance]]. The remaining 1 % plays it straight because of occasonaloccasional [[Artificial Stupidity]] on part of the friendly or enemy infantrymen.

* [[More Dakka]] : From light machine guns to large stationary ones to the ones mounted on tanks and [[Gatling Good|aircraft]]. You name it...

* [[Necessary Drawback]] : The way the game achieves its high level of realism. Going prone while running doesn't make you stop instantly, but allows you to feel the inertia of forward movement. Movements like gun reloading or putting aside your main weapon and pulling out an anti-tank weapon (or even just a pair of binoculars) all take a believable amount of time to execute, much like the ones you'd experience in real life. The rest of the realistic drawback aspects are covered in various entries on this page. Simply put, you don't behave like a run-and-gun superhero, but like a real human being who just happens to be a soldier.

* [[New Meat]] / [[Ensign Newbie]] : Private David Armstrong and tank commander Robert Hammer, the starting protagonists of the first installment's campaign.

* [[Night Vision Goggles]] : Along with binoculars, a staple of optional special equipment. Handled believably, since the games try to be realistic military simulations. The characters can use real military night vision devices, a.k.a. "noctovizors", which render one's vision in grainy green hue and via a somewhat claustrophobic lens-like shape. The goggles are of course useful for missions set at night time, but even this [[Subverted Trope|gets subverted]] in an interesting fashion : If the visual field gets flooded with light or the night background is illuminated by stars, the goggles become ''actually less effective'' than the viewer's own eyes.

* [[No Campaign for Thethe Wicked]] : Averted after the addition of the ''Red Hammer'' campaign in the first expansion.

* [[Nothing Is Scarier]] : ''In a military shooter game'', [[Genre Busting|of all places]]. But [[It Makes Sense in Context]]. Don't believe it's possible in a non-horror game ? Just wait until you're trapped alone behind enemy lines, your magazines are almost empty and you have to hide in the bushes [[Paranoia Fuel|because you hear an IFV scouting around the area, very close to your hiding place]].

** Also, the [[Wham! Episode]] mission from the campaign of ''Cold War Crisis'', where private Armstrong {{spoiler|manages to hide in a forest after his entire squad has been ambushed and gunned down. His two-way radio is malfunctioning, so he can't contact the nearest NATO camp and hears about NATO forces evacuating the island. [[It Got Worse|Worse yet]], some of the Soviet soldiers readying the area for re-occupation are out to hunt him down. Good luck crawling it out of the forest and then trying to sneak through a highly visible meadow and through several groves and forests to the nearest evac site. It lies several miles from your starting position and is surrounded by enemy-infested terrain...}}

* [[One-Man Army]] : [[Zig -Zagging Trope|Sort of played straight]] in [[Stealth -Based Mission|sneaking and sabotage missions]] - if you're skillful enough. Otherwise completely averted. In the more demanding missions, you can't get much done without some proper teamwork and combined arms tactics.

* [[POV Sequel]] : The ''Red Hammer'' campaign from the eponymous mini-expansion pits you on the side of Guba's army, where you play the role of recently demoted soldier [[The Everyman|Dmitri Lukin]].

* [[Prequel]] : The ''Resistance'' expansion, taking place in 1982, three years prior to the events of ''Cold War Crisis''.

* [[Real Time Strategy]]: The game engine can technically handle the player commanding forces as large as battalion-sized, although this is never actually put to use in the vanilla game, which never has the player commanding anything larger than individual squads or tank platoons. There are multiple [[Game Mod]] campaigns which take more of a strategy approach, though.

* [[Redheaded Hero]] : Viktor from the ''Resistance'' expansion.

* [[Red Scare]] : And how. ''Cold War Crisis'' and ''Resistance'' has you fighting a lunatic Soviet general and his army of [[My Master, Right or Wrong|faithful fanatics]].

* [[Reds Withwith Rockets]] : The Soviet troops based on Kolgujev and commanded by Guba that spark the invasions to Nogova and to the Malden islands.

* [[Refusal of the Call]] : Viktor Troska at first. But [[Dare to Be Badass|he soon has a change of heart]], [[Darkest Hour|once he realizes his fellow citizens need him]].

* [[Retcon]]: In mission ''Montignac Must Fall'', you might take cover in the forest with other squadmates, but ''After Montignac'' states you are the only squad member left.

* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified]] : Both ''Resistance'' and ''Cold War Crisis'' play it straight, but it's [[Justified Trope|justified]]. The Malden islands and Nogova never provoked the Soviets into attacking and the Soviet Union invaded only to secure its grip in the would-be independantindependent countries. Once the Soviets invade (with official sanction in ''Resistance'' and unofficial in ''CWC''), the locals logically adapt an [[Occupiers Out of Our Country!]] stance, but have no political goals beyond getting their independence back. Despite this idealistic setup, the BIS devs didn't shy away from showing what effects a prolonged and nerve-wracking war would have on said [[La Résistance]]. So, while [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]] [[Averted Trope|never comes into play]], there is a definite atmosphere of [[We ARE Struggling Together!]] in the latter parts of the Resistance campaign. Especially the events of this cutscene, where an argument leads to pointless tragedy (spoilers ahead) : {{spoiler|1=[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXuv_KaGgW0&feature=related\].}} On the upside, [[What the Hell, Hero?|these events]] become the [[Determinator]] and [[Growing the Beard]] moment for the Nogovan resistance groups.

* [[Revolvers Are Just Better]] : The vanilla versions of the games only contain one revolver - a .357 Magnum Smith & Wesson, used as a sidearm by some NATO pilots - but it's the most powerful handgun in the series. It also has the biggest recoil ([[Hand Cannon|really noticeable when firing it]]).

* [[RPG Elements]] : Going with the whole "build up a guerilla army" theme, the ''Resistance'' expansion added new features like the ability of soldiers to gain experience ([[Field Promotion|and get promoted]]) after each successful mission, the possibility to carry over captured weapons and equipment from one mission to the next, and more dynamic management of your equipment stockpile and loadout than in ''Cold War Crisis'' or ''Red Hammer''.

* [[Ruritania]] : The Malden islands in ''Cold War Crisis'' and Nogova island from the ''Resistance'' expansion are a non-monarchic, more modern, [[Cold War]] era version of this trope. They generally resemble the more rural regions or countries of the former East Bloc. In a [[Played for Laughs]] [[Commie Land|stereotypical way, no less]].

* [[Sadistic Choice]] / [[Player Punch]] : {{spoiler|The protagonist of the ''Resistance'' expansion, [[Action Survivor|Viktor Troska]], has to betray a few of his [[La Résistance]] pals and sacrifice them to general Guba's soldiers, in order to stay alive. Trying to outsmart the soldiers and solving the mission by [[Take a Third Option|taking a third option]] [[You Can't Fight Fate|is virtually impossible]].}} [[Fission Mailed|But this matters little in the long run]], since Viktor eventually manages to reach the remaining guerilla fighters [[Dare to Be Badass|and leads them]] on their [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge]] to victory, pulling a [[Plan]] or two on the invaders ''[[Xanatos Speed Chess|and adapting as he goes]]''.

* [[Sean Connery Is About to Shoot You]] : The cover on this trope page says it all... The cover of the ''Resistance'' expansion pack followed the theme, replacing the NATO soldier with [http://community.bistudio.com/wikidata/images/e/ed/OFP_RES_Cover.jpg a member of the Nogovan resistance].

* [[Shell-Shocked Veteran]] / [[Retired Badass]] / [[Hired Guns|Hired Gun]] : Viktor Troska from ''Resistance'' is implied to be this.

* [[Shown Their Work]] : [[Up to Eleven|To an absolutely jaw-dropping degree]].

* [[Sighted Guns Are Low Tech]] : One of the first games to thoroughly and effectively avert this.

* [[Simulation Game]] : The games are both tactical shooters and ground and air combat sims.

* [[Sniper Pistol]] : More or less averted, but the more powerful sidearms can act like this if you are really good at taking accurate headshots. Otherwise they're purely [[Emergency Weapon|emergency weapons]] used in combat at close distances (and are therefore particularly useful for snipers, who can't rely on their rifles for self-defencedefense).

* [[Sniper Rifle]] : The Americans have the M21, while the Soviets use their well-known classic, the SVD Dragunov. The ''Resistance'' expansion added one for the resistance fighters as well. Since they're understandably lacking a lot of purpose-built military equipment, [[Improvised Weapon|they use a scoped Remington hunting rifle]] to fill in the role.

* [[The Squad]] : You and your fellow fighters.

* [[Stealth Based Game]] : Stealth is a viable (and vital) infantry tactic and there are lots of [[Stealth -Based Mission|Stealth Based Missions]]s - for regular soldiers and commando units alike. One of the four playable characters in the first game is a special forces saboteur that specializes in sneaking around behind enemy lines, but other characters get to be stealthy as well, depending on the situation. Regular infantry assaults are usualyusually preceded by stealthy crawling and maneuvering towards the target. One of the [[Attack Pattern Alpha]] commands for your squad is literally "use stealth". Since the game is a realistic soldier sim, the stealth is purely line-of-sight ([[Averted Trope|no chance]] the enemy soldiers [[The Guards Must Be Crazy|will forget about you once you alert them of your presence]]).

* [[Sticks to Thethe Back]]: Primary weapons and launchers do this when not being held.

* [[Subsystem Damage]] : Both infantry and various armouredarmored fighting vehicles have this.

* [[Take That]] : To Codemasters with the 10th anniversary patch, which removes the ''Red Hammer'' campaign made and released by them between ''Cold War Crisis'' and ''Resistance''. A justified [[Take That]], since that campaign was made by Codemasters on their own and BIS can't take credit for it or release it with its own installments.

** Even the [[Lethal Joke Item|comparably small and seemingly obsolete Russian T-55]] [[Lightning Bruiser|can be surprisingly competent]] in the hands of a good tank commander or gunner. Fun fact : Unlike the other tanks featured in the games, the T-55 doesn't even have automatic reloading of the barrel, but [[Tropers/Zemplin Templar|this troper]] once took out ''[[Mighty Glacier|a fully armed T-80]]'' [[Rock Beats Laser|with it]].

* [[Title In]]: The date is shown before the mission, as is the location/title.

* [[Trapped Behind Enemy Lines]] : On many occasions, in many, many missions. But special mention goes to {{spoiler|one of the early missions in the first game, where your character (private Armstrong) [[Wham! Episode|becomes the only surviving member of his squad]] [[Bolivian Army Ending|after it gets suddenly attacked]] by several Soviet platoons ''[[Up to Eleven|and]] an Mi-24 Hind chopper''. [[It Got Worse|Your radio has malfunctioned, so you can't call for help.]] [[Harder Than Hard|You have only a few minutes left to cross a few kilometreskilometers of enemy-ridden terrain and reach the evac site on the coast.]] And while you're groveling through a very exposed meadow teeming with hostile soldiers, you overhear from your radio, ''[[Serial Escalation|that the evac site has changed, since the coast has come under attack]]''. You then head to the new site... ''[[Failure Is the Only Option|but you get captured by Soviet infantrymen]] !'' They take you prisoner. ''[[Overly Long Gag|And then]]'', a ''[[Twist Ending|third twist]]'' occurs, when you are rescued by members of the local [[La Résistance]]. You then aid them in two or three missions and they help you get off the island and return to the army.}}

* [[Universal Ammunition]] : Averted. Unless the type of ammunition is used in a closely related family/series of firearms, you'll have to find appropriate ammo for each gun. You won't have much luck firing an AK-74 with a magazine of M16 bullets.

* [[Universal Driver's License]] : Played straight as a rare case of [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality]].

** A glitch in one of the mid-campaign missions causes your helicopter to teleport and/or fly upside down, usually resulting in it crashing against the ground.

* [[Unusable Enemy Equipment]] : Completely averted.

* [[Villain Based Franchise]] : Arguably so, since Guba is the only character to appear in all three installments and there wouldn't be much exciting action going on if he wasn't up to his old antics again...

* [[Voice of the Resistance]] : A young and cheery radio amateur [[Known Only By Their Nickname|known under the moniker]] "[[Shout-Out|The Tasmanian Devil]]", becomes invaluable to the Nogovan freedom fighters in the campaign of the ''Resistance'' expansion pack.

* [[War Is Hell]] : The games pit you in the role of a [[The Everyman|completely ordinary]], [[Redshirt Army|completely vulnerable]] and [[We Have Reserves|completely replacablereplaceable]] [[New Meat|young soldier]]... who's fighting in small scale conflicts [[It Got Worse|that could easily spark]] [[World War Three]]... [[Averted Trope|No]] [[Anvilicious|heavy-handed]] condemnations of war or [[Contemplate Our Navels|sombre thoughts of your squadmates]] are ever heard, but the depiction of modern warfare in the game (subtle, yet straightforward) [[Show, Don't Tell|says more than a million words]] : It's nerve-wrecking, [[Everything Trying to Kill You|unpredictable]], [[Finagle's Law|often completely absurd]]. Virtually [[Anyone Can Die]]... And they do - ''[[Dying Like Animals|all the damned time]]''... Despite being war sims, the games never glorify or trivialize war and the way it changes the world, society and individuals.

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UWCfM5oCUSk Made all the more poignant] in ''Resistance'', where Viktor [[Technical Pacifist|tries to convince his friends against going to war with the Soviets]]. He's a recently retired professional soldier who [[Shell-Shocked Veteran|has seen too much death and suffering to count]], so he warns them that their desperate fight to liberate their homeland [[Defied Trope|isn't going to be]] [[War Is Glorious|glorious]] [[Hollywood Tactics|or easy]] [[Averted Trope|at all]]. But even though he's against the idea of fighting at first, [[The Call Knows Where You Live|he gets tangled up in the worsening situation]] and eventually decides to lead the Nogovan resistance cells (because if he didn't, things would probably end up even worse). [[Some Anvils Need to Be Dropped|And to hammer the point of the trope home]], the end of ''Resistance''' storyline [[Bittersweet Ending|is anything but cheerful. The resistance fighters only manage to win at a terrible price and with heavy loses]].

* [[World War Three]] : Subverted. In ''Cold War Crisis'' You're trying to ''stop'' Guba from sparking it at all, since the consequences of him succeeding in his provocation would be [[Atomic Hate|downright]] [[The End of the World Asas We Know It|catastrophic]].

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