Resistance is set in 1982, three years before Cold War Crisis. The story revolves around a Soviet invasion of the peaceful island Republic of Nogova. Unwilling to lay down to occupation forces and a Soviet regime, the local inhabitants form a Resistance militia which the main character Victor Troska is eventually coerced into leading. But the new Resistance army is seriously under resourced, early missions involve ambushes and guerrilla tactics as building up men and weapons become your priority. When the Resistance forces are sufficiently reinforced, the skirmish turns to full-blown war and Victor's quest for revenge.

You can scavenge the battlefields for weapons and equipment that can be collected and transferred to your ammo trucks or distributed between your men. It's a new gameplay element for Flashpoint and one that is vital for conveying the realism of actually being in a Resistance militia.

Far from restricting the player, the new storyline has been written to work with a wide range of player responses, so much so that it includes branching depending on the actions undertaken in missions.

That's why it has housing developments, industrial areas, tourist spots and beach huts, to make the simulation seem more real, and to make Nogova seem as though it could really exist as a functioning country.

Expect lots more civilian vehicles, as there is a larger civilian population in the game, new buses, cars, motorbikes and boats. Bohemia is also introducing the new weapon class of pistols which weren't in the original campaign game, as well as additional equipment such as laser-sight scopes.