There’s also multiplayer here as well with the game offering players the chance to go through some co-op missions, or battle against each other in different skirmish-style modes. This is still an air combat game so you’ll still have a wide variety of missions throughout the years as you battle against tanks, anti-aircraft artillery, ground troops, and other hostile aircraft. You’ll find helicopters from the 1950s up to the 21st century here. Fortunately, there’s Heliborne Collection, a game developed with players taking control of a wide variety of helicopters. Helicopters don’t get the same praise and attention as the big jet fighters and massive military planes in video air combat games. Jane’s Advanced Strike Fighters is the latest installment that came out in 2011, but it’s a title that most found to be pretty lacking compared to the installments released prior. With that said, most would agree to stick with the games released before 2002. These were more hardcore combat simulation-style video games and over the years we’ve had a pretty solid collection of titles released under Jane’s banner and while they are older titles compared to some of the other games on this list, they may very well be worth trying out today if you’d like the old school air combat kind of gameplay. The slew of titles released put players in different wars and a wide variety of planes. Jane’s Combat Simulations is a collection of flight and air combat video games that got started in the late 1990s. From classic titles, free-to-play games, along VR, check out our picks down below. In this list, we’re going over the very best air combat video game titles to have ever released. There are a ton of flight simulators available but sometimes you don’t want to just simply fly around aimlessly. #16 I1-2 Sturmovik: Battle of Stalingrad.The value of a leisure computer was realised in Fighter Pilot, and while its victory was short lived, it deserves to bask in a few minutes of high altitude glory. The fact that those speeds were known only by a pixelated line on a virtual dial, and the horizon was naught but green and blue rectangles was a matter of supreme indifference. Use the landmarks to get your bearings.įighter Pilot has not aged well, but it shouldn't be robbed of its success the older spectrum of Spectrum players, what there was of them outside of magazine reviewers, applauded in unison living out their previously un-simulated boyhood fantasies of taking off and landing military aircraft, dog fighting with Communists and performing dangerous aerobatics at supersonic speeds.
Since the controls needed to even vaguely simulate jet fighter control were still 22 years away, the intricacy and delicacy of such a task had to be simulated itself - for the most part by introducing well timed button presses and irksome journeys that required the kind of patience not yet programmed into a Speccy obsessed youth. To be fair, this was one of those titles intended to fish in the parental pool, hooking gawp-mouthed dad's and dragging them cheek first into the gaming world. But, taking into account that those small "limitations" allowed for just four control buttons (I'm no pilot, but I suspect there are more than that in an F15's cockpit), paper cut-out graphics and no missions, Fighter Pilot still managed to wow the critics of the day. Yeah, like there were any other F15 Eagle's flying around the inside of a Speccy. Still, as evasive as this caveat may have been, it was probably accurate. The box blurb claimed Fighter Pilot was the most realistic F15 Eagle air-to-air combat simulation possible, qualified only by a dismissive statement to the effect of "within the limitations of the Spectrum".
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