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A new flight sim with the name of the famous Top Gun School just appeared on the PC.Published by the famous Microprose and developed by Zipper interactive. It is a game based on the well known movie called Top Gun.You have the chance of your life to fly with top notch pilots and get in a cockpit of a multi-millions dollars plane,from your PC of course.

You fly the F/A-18 hornet from the U.S. Navy and your callsign is the same as Tom Cruise: Maverick.Your missions are not easy as it appear.You must protect your naval fleet and succeed at all cost,even if it mean to be a KamiKaze and eject from your plane right before crashing on the enemy cruiser.The idea is simple but quit fun.

There is only one plane to fly but many types of missions.The F/A-18 is capable of doing air-to-air combat and air-to-ground attack as well.So you will find yourself attacking enemy planes at several thousands feets in the air or simply launch some deadly bombs on the enemy defense system in middly of the Siberia.In this game you can not let the enemy go behind you,you have to be behind him all the time,if not,you will have to eject from your burning plane and will fail to the mission objectives.Use all the arsenal available by the Navy to survive cause the enemy will do the same.Choose carefuly your weapons depending on your mission type.All the latest hardware for planes are included.The aim-120 that is capable to kill the enemy several miles away,the sidewinder,sparow,maverick, GBU-15,Napalm and many more destructive weapons that you can carry.

You will see siberian landscape,desert and vast forest to fly at 10 feets above the ground so the enemy radar does not

"Fox one,Boom!."

"Pulling high G's!"

see you coming and will see you too late to react,Boom! Deadly surprise.But be ready for enemy jet fighter to intercept you because this game is pure dogfight action and Microprose made it intense and fun.

The lack of the enemy artificial intelligence is not the major problem in this game,but the missions objectives are not complex and the avionics are so simple that only from two clicks of a button you finish the mission and move to the next mission briefing.The game also lack of realistic.The missiles are easy to avoid only by turning a small 30 degress in a direction and expand some flares and chaffs.The details are not very precise and weather condition are poor.

The visual effects are quit simple but still make you feel like you are in the cockpit.The landscape, the missiles trails and the explosions are very well done.You can have the sensation that the missile you just launched was a real one.The game is more based on instant action.When you climb into your cockpit and you take off,action start right there.In Top Gun you will not find yourself spend many hours just to follow waypoints like many other flight sims and risk to loose fuel and crash.

Top Gun: Hornets Nest is an arcade game more than a realistic flight simulator.It is a game made to get fast and fun action in those marvellous jet fighter and try to become the next Top Gun legend from the U.S. Navy.

Companies

Developer:
Zipper interactive.
www.zipperint.com

Publisher:
Microprose
www.microprose.com

Category
Flight Simulation

_NOTES

Interest : 70 %
Maniability: 55 %
Graphics : 65 %
Sounds/Musics : 60 %
Originality : 65 %

TOTAL : 63 %

Requierements:

Interface:
Windows 95/98

Processor:
166 MHz Pentium® or more

Memory:
32 MB RAM

Hard drive:
168 MB

CD-ROM:
4X or more

Sound card:
DirectXSound-compatible

ESRB Rating
Teen

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