
This still being Arma, there will be "infantry combat encounters," but "non-shooting gameplay" makes up a large portion of the campaign, developer Bohemia Interactive said. But the situation is complicated by the pre-existing tensions in Eastern Europe, and the fact that there are a lot of high-strung humans with guns running around. You, a drone operator for NATO, are sent on a recon mission to figure out who they are and what they want. Of course, this is Arma, and so it's not a full-on Mars Attacks scenario: Instead, Arma 3 Contact is a confused first contact situation where no one knows what's going on, and you're one of the front-line flunkies who gets to stick his finger in the water to see if it's hot.Īrma 3 Contact begins with the discovery of an unknown object beneath the surface of the fictional Eastern European nation of Livonia, which precipitates the arrival of a massive alien ship above it. There's something about a modern military FPS that's famously devoted to realism being overrun by an alien invasion that just tickles me. I really like the idea of extraterrestrials in Arma 3.

In these moments, you realize that the majority of Arma's realism doesn't exist for the sake of realism." "Sometimes, like some sort of weird mom commander, I inspect their backpacks to see that they're storing enough C4 and medkits. "Even its modular inventory system has produced little rituals for me in co-op, where I have everyone vocally recite the gear they're carrying to make sure we've got enough versatility," he wrote. While the game has grown a lot since its 2013 release, Evan expressed admiration in his review. There's a little scene setting trailer embedded below.

If you end up a convert, the game is currently very cheap as well: the base game is 70 percent off, while DLC packs are up to 66 percent off.
#ARMA 3 PUSH TO TALK FREE#
If you're yet to try it, it's currently free on Steam for the next four days until January 19. There are definitely no jetpacks or double jumping here: just tactical, team-based, boots on the ground military combat. Arma 3 is one of the best FPS games on PC, especially if you find most other shooters a bit fanciful.
