Darth Viscera
Sep 3rd, 2003, 12:19:01 AM
w00t, this game is awesome. It's a very realistic, complex flight simulation of the F-18, with tactical scenarios from the war. You get to engage ground targets (anti-air defenses, probably ground formations, etc) and air targets (Iraqi fighters trying to defect to Iran, chemical-weapon-equipped unmanned drones fired at Kuwait City, etc). The scenarios go from March 20 to March 29.
The manual is pretty impressive, or creepy. The programmers must think they're selling actual F-18s and not a simulator, because the first 20 pages are all about the physical design elements of the fighter, the fiscal year budgets of the countries equipped with the F-18 (O_o ), the safety records of two-engine jet fighters measured against the safety records of one-engine jet fighters, upgrades to the Hornet including the Hornet 2000, Secretary Rumsfeld's favorite color and turn-offs, etc.
There's a lot of keys to remember, but they're all in the manual (novel), here's the basic ones to get started:
"-": Decrease Throttlel
"+": Increase Throttle
"r": Activate radar system, press once for air radar, press twice for ground radar
"Tab": Toggle radar display range
"\": Lock Target
"Joystick 3": Switch between available weapons
"Joystick 1": fire
"a": engage autopilot
"spacebar": airbrakes/lock into carrier's catapult
"Backspace": afterburner, levels 1 through 6
"f": flaps
"g": landing gear
"h": hook
"l": ILS landing system
"d": damage display
"e": engine display
";": deploy chaff
" ' ": deploy flare
shift + e : eject (or is it ctrl + e?)
F1-F12 are views, you can use F9 I believe to switch to your missile/bomb's camera and watch it slam into its target.
So if you want to go toe to toe with an Iraqi MiG-29, this is the game.
The manual is pretty impressive, or creepy. The programmers must think they're selling actual F-18s and not a simulator, because the first 20 pages are all about the physical design elements of the fighter, the fiscal year budgets of the countries equipped with the F-18 (O_o ), the safety records of two-engine jet fighters measured against the safety records of one-engine jet fighters, upgrades to the Hornet including the Hornet 2000, Secretary Rumsfeld's favorite color and turn-offs, etc.
There's a lot of keys to remember, but they're all in the manual (novel), here's the basic ones to get started:
"-": Decrease Throttlel
"+": Increase Throttle
"r": Activate radar system, press once for air radar, press twice for ground radar
"Tab": Toggle radar display range
"\": Lock Target
"Joystick 3": Switch between available weapons
"Joystick 1": fire
"a": engage autopilot
"spacebar": airbrakes/lock into carrier's catapult
"Backspace": afterburner, levels 1 through 6
"f": flaps
"g": landing gear
"h": hook
"l": ILS landing system
"d": damage display
"e": engine display
";": deploy chaff
" ' ": deploy flare
shift + e : eject (or is it ctrl + e?)
F1-F12 are views, you can use F9 I believe to switch to your missile/bomb's camera and watch it slam into its target.
So if you want to go toe to toe with an Iraqi MiG-29, this is the game.