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The battle is not yet joined. While Arma 3 is now available to buy, what you can download from Steam right now only represents an advance guard, a selection of showcase missions and equipment demonstrations. The main body is to follow, with the game's campaigns coming next month as a free add-on. There's the opportunity to join in multiplayer or download extra missions via Steam Workshop, but otherwise it's a slim offering and at the moment Arma 3 isn't a complete game. In lieu of a review, here are some first impressions.If you're an Arma veteran, then welcome back to the war. Sure, the equipment's a little different and the terrain unfamiliar, but you know this conflict. You know it's unforgiving, you know it's long and you know it has its quirks. If this is your first taste of Arma's very particular flavour of war, then consider these showcase missions a dozen ways to die, some of them much easier than others.
Each of these missions highlights either a new addition to the series, or a staple that developers Bohemia Interactive have been busy trying to improve. The former includes a chance to go scuba diving or swoop helicopters across the game's bigger, broader islands, while the latter has you once again leading special forces teams into action or settling into the cramped commander's chair inside a main battle tank. All of them demand Arma's same mix of patience and pragmatism, plus a slight suspension of disbelief.
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