ARMA 3 is an open-world, realism-based, military tactical shooter video game developed and published by Bohemia Interactive. It was released for Microsoft Windows in September 2013, and later announced for OS X and Linux in August 2015. ARMA 3's storyline takes place in the mid-2030s during the fictional Operation Magnitude, a military operation launched by NATO forces fighting in Europe against "Eastern armies" referred to as Canton-Protocol Strategic Alliance Treaty (CSAT), led by a resurgent Iranian military with a coalition of other Middle Eastern and Asian nations.
The single-player campaign has the player take control of US Army Corporal Ben Kerry. During the campaign, the player will face everything from lone wolf infiltration missions to the commanding of large scale armored operations. The player will be able to choose different objectives and weaponry (such as UAVs, artillery, and air support) according to their play style.
ARMA 3 takes place on the Aegean islands of Altis and Stratis of Greece, and Tanoa of the South Pacific. The islands feature photo-realistic terrain and water environments. Altis is the largest official terrain in the ARMA series with ground area covering approximately 270 square kilometres (100 sq mi). The smaller island, Stratis, expands over an area of 20 square kilometres.
In 2034, a while before the beginning of "Survive",
Staff Sergeant Adams and
Sergeant Conway are trying another Virtual Reality battle test system and setting up a terminating range; both are to be utilized to prepare NATO-sponsored AAF troops, a joint power passing by the callsign Task Force Aegis. After some concise activities, Adams is reached by a watch of AAF officers asserting that there was an "episode" and that they need support. In any case, the watch do not have a guide and a GPS, as are uncertain of their present position. In the wake of utilizing triangulation and essential route procedures to learn the lattice reference directions of the watch, Conway, Adams and whatever remains of their squad withdraw to find the lost watch. Not long after leaving, a minor tremor happens, astounding Adams' group. The group touches base at the area of the lost watch and find that they have assaulted a gathering of regular people, asserting they were guerrillas. Conway and Adams end up disturbed by the AAF watch's activities and request them to call a MEDEVAC for a surviving non military personnel. Meanwhile, Conway finds a formerly unfamiliar guerrilla store. Adams comments that the guerrillas, passing by the name Freedom and Independence Army (FIA), will no uncertainty counter.
Multi week after the episode, the legislature of Altis and the FIA consent to a peace talk at the Ministry of Defense in the capital Kavala. Adams' group is entrusted by Task Force Aegis' leader, Colonel MacKinnon, to find an AAF security guard that has disappeared in transit to Kavala. Looking through helicopter, the group rapidly find the missing escort; it has been pulverized in a clear trap. After setting down to check for survivors, the group is assaulted by FIA guerrillas. After the battle, the group calls a MEDEVAC for an injured AAF warrior and are reviewed to Kavala. On their way they pass a few devastated AAF checkpoints and, upon entry in Kavala, find that the "sitdown went haywire" and the FIA assaulted the AAF. The group is relegated to get to the Ministry of Defense. Traveling through the boulevards of Kavala, they don't discover anything yet demise and obliteration. Touching base at the Ministry, they find a high-positioning AAF officer going to execute detainees. They undermine the officer however are requested to remain around Commander MacKinnon, who advises them that the officer is Colonel Georgious Akhanteros, the boss of the AAF. Conway and Adams leave the territory as the credits roll, clarifying that after the Battle of Kavala, relations amongst NATO and AAF weakened, bringing about the NATO peacekeeping command decreased to the littler island of Stratis. The world - and NATO - has started to dismiss its consideration from Altis.
