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Subject: Question About the sandbox

Iranian Air Defense Site: 'Unknown aircraft you are in Iranian airspace. Identify yourself.'
Aircraft: 'This is a United States aircraft. I am in Iraqi airspace.'
Air Defense Site: 'You are in Iranian airspace. If you do not depart our airspace we will launch interceptor aircraft!'
Aircraft: 'This is a United States Marine Corps FA-18 fighter. Send 'em up, I'll wait!'
Air Defense Site: ( .... total silence)

I was wondering if in co-op with 3 freinds you can split from your team mates and each person can do a diffrent flashback. If you could that'd be cool, yet less fun.

  • 06.09.2009 11:20 AM PDT
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Well we don't know yet but I'm guessing you will all have to stay together and do the flashbacks together.

  • 06.09.2009 11:24 AM PDT

I think you will be able to split up and go anywhere in the city, but when someone triggers a flashback you will all play the same flashback. But i think in the long run it would be wise to stick together for the most part.

  • 06.09.2009 11:25 AM PDT

Having multiple people engage in multiple flashbacks simultaneously would be worse than dividing by 0, you don't want that!

  • 06.09.2009 11:35 AM PDT
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good question. i too was wondering the same. if you rewatch the campaign vid, at the point where the AI updates your PDA (allowing you to see a map of NM), you'll notice, off to the left, an icon of a red block which indicates the location of 'locked doors' on your map.

which leaves me to assume that your party of friends (co-oped in the same game) will be constrained to stay within wider and wider realms as the game progresses. Each 'realm', i'm assuming, will enable a new part of the story. in this way the game is both open world and linear. also, in this way, everyone would see/play a part in the same flashback.

[Edited on 06.09.2009 11:43 AM PDT]

  • 06.09.2009 11:41 AM PDT