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Just fun, not a Sim

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I wanted to give this game 3.5 stars, but you can't. If it were a full priced game, I would give it three stars, since it has no manual to speak of and the campaign is very loosely connected. But for a $20 value title that makes no attempt to claim it is a simulator, then this game is pretty fun and worth your time/money if you are looking for a helicopter shoot-em-up. It is not a sim by any means, rather an arcade type game in which you fly around an Apache. There are 30 missions and no multiplayer. The graphics are nice and the sounds are good too. The flight model is ok and you can use your joystick with throttle and rudder pedals if you have them. Gamespot.com reviewed this game pretty well, so I bought it from ebgames.com. For $20 I think this is a fun game. I'm still waiting for a successor to Janes Longbow - this game isn't it, but it's a fun diversion that you will enjoy.

Disappointed

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: May 12, 2004
Author: Amazon User

After installing this game on a brand new gateway with all the right specs, I discovered that the game froze as soon as it started. I tried installing it on a friends pc with all the right specs. Same result. Actually it wasn't quite the same, the second time it froze earlier in the start sequence. According to tech support there was too much *stuff* running on these machines.

Maybe if I had bought this game from amazon, they would have taken it back (I buy all my books from amazon); but I didn't, and the store I bought it from wouldn't take it back - they only exchanged it for another copy of the same thing. Which didn't work either. See ya later 20 dollars!

GARBAGE....DON'T WASTE THE MONEY

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: August 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Buy Novalogic's Commanche instead. It is a real fun game and the helo flys really well and the missions are a blast. In Apache, the helo does not respond well at all and is a big piece of junk.

A Fun Helicopter Pseudo-Sim

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 04, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This game has nice graphics , great sound effects , and plays well with a joystick. It is easy to pick up and play without too much learning , and the multiple camera views are great. For those of you tired of having to take two weeks to learn how to fly something , this is a great alternative.

Fun, but overall not enough to please...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It looks like fun at first glance, but the controls are just shoddy and unuseable to the point of making the game unplayable. If only you could re-map the controls to your liking, but nope! No wonder the game didn't sell well and was discontinued. Activision should be ashamed of not only this game, but themselves...

The problem is, while the game is fun the controls make even the easiest of objectives a chore. Sheesh, I am still on the first mission only because to land without getting killed is near impossible. All in all, I would recommend Comanche 4 over this and can only hope a better heli sim is released soon.

Good Helicopter Shooter with a Believable Flight Model!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 17, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Great value for a Helicopter shoot em'up if you have a programmable joystick and use the games realistic flight model mode. Pilots of the BF mods BFV,BF2 etc.. will be right at home with this one!.Great graphics,stable in XP. Has Simplified weapon systems but the good flight model makes it worth while even for the more advanced cyber helicopter jockeys. May take a couple weeks searching around to find this one but the predecessor game "Apache ah-64 Air Assault" is just as good and more readily available.

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