Fighter Pilot (PC)
Oddly bland, thin, pointless - Fighter Pilot (PC) PC Game

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Oddly bland, thin, pointless
Fighter Pilot (PC)

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Member Name: John Rickard

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Fighter Pilot (PC)

Date: 07/02/01, updated on 08/02/01 (30 review reads)

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You will get a good idea of the quality of this game when I say I got it free, and still don't think it was good value for money. It is sold as a nice simple flight-sim, but that simplicity is taken to an extreme. Your actions have no consequences beyond each mission, while each mission feels like no more than a skirmish.

The game is as basic a flight simulator as you could even expect to see. You pilot an American fighter in a largely unspecific war, starting with a mission that pits you against two or three evemy fighters and slowly getting a little more complex, but not much. You have very little input on the nature of your craft, start flying in mid air, can only target the aircraft next in line, and don't even need to attempt to land. The nearest to sophistication you get is the chance to attack some land targets, but franky that doesn't cut the mustard.

Worse, there is only one campaign, and that too short. This game feels almost like a free download rather than a professional product - almost as if it was written to be bundled with a graphics card or some such.

Featureless, bland, pap. Avoid like the plague.

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