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Summary: You need a LOADED PC to play it decently!
Review: I tried the demo on my Athlon XP 2400+ / 512 DDR266/ 40GB 8MB Cache WD Caviar Special Edition/ 128MB DDR ATI Radeon 9600 PRO with latest drivers and at medium graphics its hardly anything smooth, at high it's unplayable. I didn't really get to figure this game out it's really too complicated takes you lots of hours to understand how it works and since training has been scrubbed out of the demo there is no way you would actually know if you can get to play the game or not.Graphics in the cockpit were great and detailed and so was the plane itself but ground models were medicore at best! It's a mixed bag but again you need a really high end system to be able to play it at full graphics detail!
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Summary: Better have alot of power
Review: Just tried to run the demo on a machine with a 3.06GHz P4, 512MB Memory, and a 64MB/Radeon 9000 card. It was completely unplayable. With minimal display settings, the frame rate was probably somewhere around 2 FPS. I don't know what they expect you to be able to run this game on, but you will definitely need more than you think you will. Be very wary of this game. I gave it 3 stars because it does look like a good game. It's a shame they couldn't make it more PC friendly.
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Summary: Just perfect
Review: This looks like the perfect simulator for combat flight, not only one fighter that can be used, and the graphic looks wonderful.
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Summary: awesome
Review: this game rocks its got great graphics and its real fun. the a.i. is getting smarter and better. not like those games were they just sit there waiting for you to kill'em. this gaame is almost as fun as il2 sturmovik.
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Summary: What were they thinking?
Review: I have played,and owned almost every good military sim on the market since the year 2000 when I started becoming interested in turning my simple desktop PC into a full-blown, afterburning sim station! I'm also a commercial pilot so I am very critical about games that claim to be "sims" but are actually just games. When this game came out the reviews had me extremely excited about something that was supposed to be even better than Falcon 4.0! Yeah Right! If there is one thing that every serious sim must have it is a fully-clickable cockpit. I'm not going to try and memorize a couple hundred different key combinations for one sim! Sure the graphics are good if you can get the game to run at a descent frame rate, but we all know that physics, not graphics make a great sim. Falcon 4 and the Janes games are still king after all these years!
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Summary: Worth the effort
Review: I bought this game about a year ago, and had a really difficult time mastering the learning curve. Since the documentation was so sparse, I mostly laid off trying to master the avionics and just flew it like a dogfighter, flying Sues, MiGs and 15s in "guns only fights, and then just marveling at how beautiful the game was. Mastering navigation and landing was itself a challenge, but I just loved staring out from the cockpit during a descent and feeling very much like I was in a real cockpit in air....the illusion and immersiveness was that real.
Eventually I moved onto other games, but I never removed this game from my hard drive. It felt like a keeper. Now a year later, I've patched it, put some of the add-ons in, and I'm still learning new stuff! I've finally mastered the Su-27 BVR mode and CAC mode. I've also learned how to effectively use EOS and have successfully won missions with it. This is one of those games that you have let grow on you.....at this point I have virtually no doubt that LOMAC is going to be the Falcon4 of the next 5 years. It is going to be slowly patched and modified while hardware grows around it.
I am running an Athlon 2600, with 1GB of PC3200 RAM, and a Radeon 9700 on Windows 2000 SP4. There are a few graphics options I have to turn down, but the game is extremely stable (0 crashes) and gives me playable framerates about 90% of the time at a resolution of 1024x768. Overall the game is very scalable and needs to be tweaked to get the happy medium between performance and eye candy depending on the capabilities of your machine.
I literally can't wait for my next upgrade, and wonder how great this game will look and fly with a fast 64-bit CPU and a next gen video card.
This is a great simulation, and one which will reward you with priceless satisfaction if you are willing to invest the time and effort in learning its intricacies.
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Summary: Not worth it!
Review: This game is by far the worst flight sim I've ever played. I'm using top of the line processors and graphics card and the game play is still choppy at best. The technical data is top notch, but the flight controls have way too much lag time to be effective in basic fighter maneuvers. Trying to line up the CCIP with your target for Mk82 drops is almost impossible. The lack of a keystroke guide is a huge fault! Also, trying to read the instrument panel of the Frogfoot is an exercise in futility. Any of the Jane's sims are much better than this.
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Summary: Poorly laid out, unstable
Review: First, the graphics in this game are top-rate. As a former A-10 maintenance tech, the cockpit is REAL. This IS exactly how an A-10 cockpit looks.
Unfortunately, that's about all I can say about this game.
There is no manual except for the readme on the CD. So be ready with fresh ink cartridges if you want a reference while you're playing. A keyboard foldout would have been excellent. For the original price, I would have expected some print.
The graphics are unstable. I'm running on a Radeon 9600 graphics card, and have been unable to get through a game without the scene crashing to uniform light blue.
The controls key map make no sense whatsoever, and are not ergonomically designed. D cycles weapons, I turns the radar on and P releases drogue chute? How the heck am I supposed to remember that? The padlock key doesn't always work, you have to hit it many times, and then once you're padlocked, you have to hit it again to unpadlock to use other views.
Missions always start you in the air, so you don't get to take-off. I'm so frustrated in trying to get the tutorial missions to work that I've never gotten into the campaign.
I am aficionado of flight sims, and have played all the campaigns of the Janes series. For a much better treatment of the F-15 and especially the F-15's radar, look for Janes F-15. Graphics aren't as modern, but the flight experience is much better.
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Summary: An ambitious flight simulator that delivers and then some!
Review: This flight simulation is now the only sim I actively play. My previous sims of choice were Jane's F-15, F/A-18, Falcon 4.0, Flanker 2.5, and MS Flight Simulator 2004. It's that good.
The choice of both American and Russian aircraft is a great change from the norm, especially since they're modeled so well. The feeling of flight coupled with the amazing graphics is hard to beat in terms of immersion factor. Switchology may not be as robust as other previous sims, but when you take into account that Eagle Dynamics (the developers of this sim) are giving us 8 different aircraft, it's quite an accomplishment.
However, the incredible graphics will tax your system, so be prepapred to turn down graphics options and the missions while good, are not the strongest part of this sim.
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Summary: Greatest Comeback Ever
Review: I bought Lock-On after waiting for the price to drop because I am an avid gamer and was also afraid of spending so much on a simulation that might be beyond me. Well I worry no more, the game can be patched to 1.02 with a download and a double click, absolutely easy and the game goes from very playable to extremely playable. Some complained about bugs before, well supposedly this fixes all of them, I've not crashed once despite modding the game numerous times using a program called LOMAN. The game is stable, run well if I use modest (still looks great) settings on my GF4 ti4200P. The cd comes with an extensive manual that I got printed out to help me learn, and the game comes with great tutorials. I'm having a blast despite a simple joystick. Completely unique gaming experience if you love flying and want insight into modern technology while enjoying yourself.
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