ARMA: Queen's Gambit

ARMA: Queen's Gambit

Developer(s) Bohemia Interactive
Black Element Software
Publisher(s) 505 Games
Series ARMA
Engine Real Virtuality
Platform(s) Microsoft Windows
Release date(s)
  • WW September 28, 2007[1]
Genre(s) Tactical shooter
Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer
Distribution CD-ROM

ARMA: Queen's Gambit (stylized as ARMA: Queen's Gambit) is an expansion pack to ARMA: Armed Assault. It was made by Bohemia Interactive, the developer of the original game and Black Element Software. It contains new units, weapons, islands and campaigns.[2]

Plot

The first campaign "Rahmadi Conflict" is a follow-up to the original storyline. Player takes role of Leon Ortega who leads a specialized unit of the U.S. military. He is sent to nearby island of Rahmadi where the remaining of Sahrani Liberation Army is located and led by a mysterious leader, called "the President".[3] The campaign consists of three missions and takes place on Rahmadi and a new island Porto.[4]

The other campaign, "Royal Flush", takes place on Sahrani a few years after the original storyline. The island is united, but the people from the northern part of the island are dissatisfied with the monarchy. A group of mercenaries from Black Element private military company is hired by Sahrani queen Isabella who has taken the throne after a sudden death of her father, King Jose and her brother, Prince Orlando in a helicopter crash, causing a full scale-insurgency on the north. They are supposed to fight anti-government insurgents on North and to seize a stockpile of chemical weapons believed to be in possession of the rebels. Player takes role of Kurt Lambowski who is a member of the group.[5][6] During the campaign the team discovers that the Queen is a ruthless leader who runs a police state and puts the opponents to the concentration camps. Which is more - Prince Orlando is alive and leads the rebels. With these facts at hand, the team decides to help the rebels.

Depending on the player's decisions the Queen is either overthrown (killed or escapes) or she manages to get Prince Orlando killed, forcing the contractors to hastily leave the island and they are later branded as the rogue contractors. The allegations about the involvement of Black Element company in a coup d'etat is one of the reasons for a later rebranding of the company name to ION Services,[7] so the latter campaign ending may be canonical one.

Characters

Reception

The critical reception was mixed. It currently holds 67% on Metacritic.[1]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "ArmA: Queen's Gambit for PC Reviews". Metacritic. 2007-09-28. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  2. ↑ "ARMA: Queen's Gambit | ARMAseries.cz - Arma 2, Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead, Arma 3". ARMAseries.cz. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  3. ↑ "ArmA: Queen´s Gambit – Databáze-her.cz". Databaze-her.cz. 2012-07-25. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  4. ↑ "Armed Assault: Queens Gambit - GAMES.cz". Games.tiscali.cz. 2007-11-14. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  5. ↑ Clare, Oliver (2007-11-10). "Armed Assault: Queen's Gambit Review • Reviews • PC •". Eurogamer.net. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  6. ↑ "Speciál: Bohemia Interactive: Studio, které zlepšilo herní průmysl - Kapitola čtvrtá - Arma, válčení pro novou generaci". Zing.cz. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  7. ↑ http://www.aan-online.com/en/europe/29-black-element-rebrand-corporate-image.html
  8. ↑ "USA (ArmA) - Bohemia Interactive Community". Community.bistudio.com. 2011-09-28. Retrieved 2013-08-12.
  9. ↑ "Royal Army Corps of Sahrani - Bohemia Interactive Community". Community.bistudio.com. 2011-01-01. Retrieved 2013-08-12.

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