Best Jet fighting game?

[mharr7]

As the title says. Best dog fighting game with current jets?

 

[StevenYoo]

Ace Combat series on consoles?

 

[StevenYoo]

or Combat Flight Simulator?

 

[mharr7]

Ya dont have any consoles, just PC....

 

[Sam25]

Falcon 4.0 is a great Jet Sim game. Also, take a look here for more Jet Sim games:

http://www.gamespot.com/games....Combat+Sims&platform=5

 

[shortylickens]

My fave is Janes Fighters Anthology, but good luck trying to find it now.

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
My fave is Janes Fighters Anthology, but good luck trying to find it now.

Was released in 1998 I think?

 

[brandonb]

Falcon4 with FreeFalcon5 mod released later this month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcy45w6xEFQ

 

[IcePickFreak]

Falcon 4.0 or the slightly updated Falcon 4:Allied Forces if you want to fly in online (squads can be great fun.) This is still probably my favorite because of the dynamic campaign, this is honestly like a strategy game in it's own. You can even play an entire war here without actually ever getting in a jet. Enough can't be said about this feature, it's an unargued point in the flight sim community.

The downside is you really only get the to fly one jet, the F-16 obviously. There are variants however, and the other area this series really shines is in the avionics so the different variant's (F-16A/B, F-16C/D, Blk 40/42, Blk 50/52, MLU's, etc) are actually quite a big deal (and everyone's got their favorite variant.) There's also additional map packs (dynamic campaign works with them), hires textures for everything, and mods like Red Viper which almost make it an entirely different game. However this really makes this game pretty involving to maintain. Red Viper is probably my favorite game play wise, but "the dance" to install everything and maintaining it when stuff updates just burned me out.

So that brings us to Falcon 4:Allied Forces. This is the newest official release and the version I would recommend going with. Some things got axed from the 4.0 release, but overall it's the much smoother version. Hires packs are available here as well and I highly recommend them - these are easy to maintain as well. The dynamic campaign is here, the avionics are here, and decent network code is here and flying with a squad of people (especially if you fly together regularly) is extremely fun and challenging.

Unfortunately I've been out of the loop really and haven't flown in over year, just don't have the time - but I still get the itch and almost installed Allied Forces over Thanksgiving. I'll have to look into FreeFalcon5 too, looks very nice. I highly recommend investing in a HOTAS setup if haven't got one already, it's a necessity IMO.


If your not looking for something that sim-like, ummmm... I dunno.

 

[Atheus]

Falcon 4:AF clearly, but as has already been said, the only jet available is the F-16.

More importantly Falcon 4 is not a jet fighting game. It is an extremely accurate F-16 simulator, as in, a real jet pilot presses 50 switches over 15 minutes to get the plane off the ground so YOU press 50 switches over 15 minutes to get the plane off the ground. This is more fun than it sounds but since you asked for a jet fighting game not a sim you might not be into that stuff.

 

[chronox]

Does anyone know how well Allied Force runs on a machine with Vista x64?

 

[videogames101]

IL-2 Sturmovik: 1946

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(idk about current jets tho)

 

[duragezic]

Not much to add (I haven't played these games in a long time, since back when they were popular) other than I seen on Steam there is an upcoming game, Tom Clancy's H.A.W.X, which looks pretty cool, with modern or near-future aircraft. I'm not sure how much of a simulator it will be, but something to keep an eye on.

 

[novasatori]

Originally posted by: chronox
Does anyone know how well Allied Force runs on a machine with Vista x64?

runs fine
gotta update to 1.0.1.13 or whatever the latest version is, then run in xp sp2 compatibility mode

 

[Hammyton]

JAnes Fa-18 game is great

 

[WaitingForNehalem]

Battlefield 2

 

[Sentrosi2121]

Was watching Futureweapons this morning and they were profiling the new A-10C. After reading this thread I'd love to find another A-10 Warthog game.

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: shortylickens
My fave is Janes Fighters Anthology, but good luck trying to find it now.

I have that game
It has problems on system above Windows 98 I think, though.

 

[Sam25]

Originally posted by: SonicIce

Originally posted by: shortylickens
My fave is Janes Fighters Anthology, but good luck trying to find it now.

I have that game
It has problems on system above Windows 98 I think, though.

Jane's Fighters Anthology should run fine with the 1.02 patch on Windows XP.