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RestlessSpirits
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Posted - 2013.09.29 16:47:00 -
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Foster, if you are itchin' for some dogfighting to tide you over and have a Playstation 2 (or emulator), try and get ahold of Airforce Delta Strike. It leans more toward arcadey action, with main mission objectives like flying down the barrel of 3 massive cannons (to destroy their targeting systems or something), destroying a giant cargo lift as it heads from earth to a space station, or flying into a giant subway system to destroy enemy ground forces.
It actually has a pretty decent story told in an RPG/Anime style that has you conversing with the pilots in your squad between missions. The characters are all hand drawn (it appears) and the game does a pretty good job of getting you involved in all 8 characters individual stories. They even have story segments for the main enemy pilots (shown after missions, before returning to the hangar). That is, of course, if you want to get into the story. If not you can skip it all together and go right into the missions. Pretty much any dialogue you see can be skipped over.
There are a total of 3 squads. 2 of the squads have 3 playable pilots, and 1 squad has 2 playable pilots. The game contains mostly real aircraft (somewhere around 149 flyable planes I think), and each character is able to purchase aircraft between missions. One squad is a dedicated Air to Air squad, on squad is Ground Attack, and the last squad is made up of a VTOL guy, a guy who is all about pure speed, and a guy that only flies old prop planes. For the most part, each characters available planes are completely different from the other characters (other than some cases of 1 char having an F-15 D and another having an F-15 E, and things like that).
Once you beat the game, you can start a New Game +. This gives you the opportunity to attempt to purchase all aircraft, use newer, more powerful aircraft on early missions, and it lets you explore the 3 different endings (the story is the same for most of the game, but at the very end the story arch splits into 3 and offers unique missions depending on the pilot you choose). As I said, it is more arcade than simulation, but if you set the controls to Ace (or hard, or something like that), it becomes fairly realistic as you have to constantly manage your speed and your air brake to be effective at dog fighting. The arcadeyness comes from the setting (at some point you end up in space).
All in all, it is an old ass game that doesn't look terrible, but you won't be amazed by the graphics either. If you love aerial combat games and are just looking for something to tide you over until a later date, check this out. It can't be more than 5 bucks at Gamestop (if they have it). |