Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead
Tactical military simulation across large battlefields with infantry and vehicles
Bohemia Interactive · Released Jun 29, 2010
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 92% of 22K
- Recent reviews
- Mostly Positive
- 71% of 14 in 30 days
- Playing now
- 98
- right now
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 4 years ago
- Dec 21, 2021
Free demo available, 0 playing it now: get the demo.
Metacritic: 73/100 (critic reviews)
What is Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead?
A tactical first-person military simulation set across three large Central Asian-style maps in the Green Sea region. You fight as infantry, special operations personnel, pilots, or tank crew in a campaign, standalone scenarios, and multiplayer battles as a US-led coalition deploys to Takistan.
For you if...
- +you want methodical, realistic combat across large open maps
- +you enjoy cooperative battles and infantry-vehicle combined-arms combat
- +you like creating custom missions with the editor
Not for you if...
- −you want fast arcade combat rather than tactical simulation
- −you prefer compact, tightly directed shooter levels
What players say
92% of 22,248 reviews are positive · 71% of 14 in the last 30 days
Players praise the mission editor, large maps, realistic shooting, squad control, and cooperative Warfare battles. The most common recent complaint is failure to launch on Windows 11; players also report save-loading crashes, frame-rate drops, and awkward or glitchy controls.
Screenshots and trailer
Arma 2: Operation Arrowhead system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core 2.4 GHz or AMD Dual-Core Athlon 2.5 GHz
- Graphics
- Nvidia Geforce 8600GT or ATI Radeon 3650 or faster with Shader Model 3 and 512 MB VRAM
- Memory
- 1GB
- Storage
- 10 GB free space
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10
- Processor
- Intel Core i5 or AMD Athlon Phenom X4 or faster
- Graphics
- Nvidia Geforce GTX 260 or ATI Radeon HD 5770 or faster with Shader Model 3 and 896 MB VRAM
- Memory
- 2GB
- Storage
- 20 GB free space
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Age rating
- 17+
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Device compatibility warnings shown
- Gamepad not enabled by default
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Full audio: English. Text only: Czech, French, Italian, Spanish - Spain, German, Polish, Russian.
Tags
- Simulation
- Military
- Action
- Multiplayer
- Tactical
- Realistic
- Strategy
- Shooter
- FPS
- Open World
- War
- Moddable
- Co-op
- Sandbox
- Team-Based
- Singleplayer
Recent updates
- Dec 21, 2021 · Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead Windows 11 Hotfix #2
- Dec 16, 2021 · Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead Windows 11 Hotfix
- Nov 7, 2019 · Arma 2 Operation Arrowhead 1.64 Update
- Dec 21, 2015 · Corepatch hotfix
- Dec 21, 2015 · Corepatch hotfix
3 DLC available.
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