Change course and risk blundering near another enemy, or risk it and plough on ahead?įor those of you who might this appealing, gog.com have now added F117 to their lineup. That created quite a sense of tension, as I picked my way through threats such as SAM launchers, watching the detection indicator creep upwards. One key part of your interface is a little gauge showing how visible you currently are, and how close enemy radar is to picking you out if I recall correctly this would depend on what maneuvers you were pulling, how high you were going, whether or not the weapons bays were open and so on. It was also kind of atmospheric, cruising over the desert under under sunset skies in my alien-looking black jet. Or to put it another way, I completed several successful strike missions without turning my hundred-million-dollar warplane into a flaming wreck, but I soon decided that manual landings were too much hard work. Myself, I thought it managed a decent balance between being accessible and feeling reasonably challenging and authentic. I don’t know what hardcore sim fans would make of features like the flight modelling and controls nowadays, and I’m sure the genre has advanced, but I think it was deemed pretty realistic back in 1991. He gives a thumbs up but that was the wrong bridge, you muppetīack in those days, Microprose were well known for this sort of military simulator.
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