It varies significantly depending on the player's role, but the game is best described as a tactical shooter with significant vehicle elements and minor real-time tactics elements. The gameplay is the same as the original game. Player controls the character of Victor Troska who leads a Squad of partisans against Soviet Enemies The player takes on the role of an ex-special operations soldier, Victor Troska, who joins and comes to lead a resistance movement fighting against the Soviet Army, which has invaded his country. The storyline takes place in 1982, three years before the events of Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis. The plot is inspired by the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. The island's towns and villages are mostly named after real locations in the Czech Republic.
The expansion adds a new campaign, which takes place on the fictional island of Nogova. Resistance was later re-released as part of ArmA: Cold War Assault. It is the second expansion of Operation Flashpoint, the first one being Operation Flashpoint: Red Hammer, which was developed by Codemasters. It was developed by Bohemia Interactive, authors of the original game, and published by Codemasters. Operation Flashpoint: Resistance (also known as ARMA: Resistance) is an expansion pack to Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis.
