One of the things missing in Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising, a pretty decent tactical shooter, is some way to play other than the canned campaign missions. For instance, its more ambitious and considerably messier cousin, ArmA II, gives you all sorts of options to jump into dynamically generated scenarios to just kill randomly spawned guys. It's a great way to flex these kinds of shooters. Kind of like skirmish modes in real time strategy games. Just let me get in there and fight without all this scripted storyline guff!

So I was elated to discover the new "Skirmish" downloadable content for Operation Flashpoint: Dragon Rising. It's available today for free on the PC, for a handful of space bucks on the Xbox 360, and for some indeterminate future date on the Playstation 3. Finally, a skirmish mode!

Let's check the press release for details:

The 'Skirmish' DLC features four new multiplayer maps and two new Fire Team Engagement (FTE) missions...

Oh. That's all? Multiplayer maps and two new scripted missions like the ones I had to play in the campaign? Well, that was misleading. They might as well named the next DLC "Free Beer".