Dog fight sims

[conneh]

Anything good knocking around these days?
Use to enjoy combat flight sim back in the day. Just got Heroes Over Europe, which graphically is sound - however it doesn't have cockpit view which is w**k!

Anything decent out?

 

[steven.m]

Played the Il Sturmovik demo on 360, looks quite good.

 

[Gally]

Hawk was okay to pass the time mate.

 

[conneh]

Oo Sturmovik looks good.

 

[@Spoonie]

When I first read this I was thinking you meant like pitbulls. I thought someone had coded a dog fighting sim with pikeys exchanging cash and you having to train your mutt.

 

[conneh]

For every action, there is a reaction. And a Pikey reaction... is quite a f**king thing.

 

[Darren S]

Depends how 'deep' you want to go into it. Is this on PC, btw?

Sturmovik is a good one, but if you can recite flight manuals verbatim - then DCS Black Shark is definitely where it's at....

http://uk.pc.ign.com/articles/945/945520p1.html

D.

 

[SC03OTT]

Can't beat the classics.

 

[Prong]

Can't beat the classics.

Indeed

 

[conneh]

To be fair, CFS was the dogs.

 

[conneh]

Just installing Sturmovik 1946, i'll see what its like.

 

[conneh]

I crashed.

 

[sargey]

This.

 

[sargey]

Or This.

 

[Longy]

I had the original and the manual was the size of a phonebook! good game though.

 

[Darren S]

Or This.

Feckin' hell! I didn't think anyone else would remember this! Definitely Cinemaware's best game of all time, followed by Rocket Ranger and It Came from the Desert.

Great story/career mode and waay ahead of it's time - it really pushed the limits on what the Amiga hardware could do.

Brilliant game - but as with other great developers (such as Dynamix and Looking Glass) Cinemaware went bump, iirc?

D.

 

[sneeks]

This on the ZX Spectrum+2

http://www.lemon64.com/?mainurl=http://www.lemon64.com/reviews/view.php?id=398

 

[Cookie]

No mention of Strike Commander?

Was awesome back in the day

 

[Clart]

i fcuking loved strike commander - don't forget the "speech pack"

 

[Cookie]

I tried to get it fired up on a DOS emulator thing, it was gonna take too much work to get it sorted properly.. might give it a go if I get some free time next week tho

 

[Alex H]

I had DID Air Dominance Fighter. And a joystick. That was an epic game.

 

[Iain C]

Wing war off the 90s. Loved it

 

[Maxx]

Harrier Attack was good...

 

[Longy]

Harrier Attack was good...

Played this loads on my Amstrad CPC464!

 

[Darren S]

Played this loads on my Amstrad CPC464!

Lol - me too on the C-64.

Another one that was good was Stuka Raid on the BBC Micro - probably around 1987/88 time. We used to have that on the BBCs at school, along with Decathlon on the old, old IBM PCs.

We had an even ealier game called Sopwith on the Research Machines terminals at college. I don't think the game was any bigger than 100k!

D.