Bohemia Interactive is an independent game development studio that focuses on developing state of the art computer entertainment software and the research of advanced real time 3D graphics, artificial intelligence and physical simulation technologies for real-time interactive environments.
In 2001, Bohemia Interactive finished the development of Operation Flashpoint. The debut game of Bohemia Interactive, published by Codemasters, immediately became the No. 1 selling game in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Australia, Czech Republic and other countries. The development team continued to support the game with regularly released upgrades and patches over the internet and prepared a special US version of the game. It launched in September 2001 and it also became one of the best selling games in the US. Operation Flashpoint has won many accolades including Game of The Year and Best Action Game. Over 1.2 million copies of Operation Flashpoint have been sold since its release.
Most recently, the company finished Operation Flashpoint: Resistance, the official expansion pack to Operation Flashpoint.
In December 2001, Bohemia Interactive opened a studio in Australia and started the development of special military training simulation program VBS1 in cooperation with U.S. based Coalescent Technologies. VBS1 is already being used as a training tool by the U. S. Marine Corps. and various other military organizations are looking into possible implementation of VBS1 into their training programs.
Bohemia Interactive's research and development team has more than 25 experienced game developers. BIS are based in Prague, Czech Republic with development studios in the Czech Republic as well as Australia. Bohemia Interactive Studio won Best PC Game Developer of the year 2001 award at LondonĄ¯s exhibit ECTS and Rookie Studio of the Year award at GDC 2002.
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A dedicated edition of the million-selling military simulator Operation Flashpoint: Elite is coming to the Xbox video game system from Microsoft'.
Operation Flashpoint:'Elite brings the player the most complex war game experience ever on any console, offering unprecedented freedom of action, integrating command of large squads and use of all available vehicles with total immersion. Operation Flashpoint:'Elite simulates the best cold war military equipment - infantry, mobile, armored and aircraft.
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Gold Edition combines the original game Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis with all updates (including updates present in Operation Flashpoint: Gold Edition) and Operation Flashpoint: Resistance.
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Resistance is the official expansion to Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. Resistance is set years before Operation Flashpoint's Cold War reached crisis point, and delivers a campaign which forms a prequel to the original game's plot.
The game casts the player as Victor Troska, an experienced ex-Special Forces soldier. Having turned his back on his military past, Troska has settled into respectable civilian life on an island just a short distance from the original game's three islands.
However, his situation changes when Soviet forces invade the island group, destroying Troska's idyllic dreams. Reluctant at first to return to a conflict situation, he is forced to participate in, and then lead, the ramshackle Resistance effort, which grows up in response to the Soviet occupation.
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Operation Flashpoint brings the player the most complex war game experience ever. It offers unprecedented freedom of action integrating command of larger squads and use of any available vehicles with total immersion. Operation Flashpoint simulates the best cold war military equipment - infantry, mobile, armored and aircraft.
Operation Flashpoint has won universal acclaim for its realism of simulating military conflict situations on PC, even to the extent where the game's technology has been adapted for real soldiers to use as a special combat training application VBS1
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