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Stunning Photo Realistic Scenery - Great Air-to-Air Combat!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 11 / 12
Date: July 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This latest version of F/A-18 Hornet from Graphsim Entertainment makes you feel like you really are flying over Iraq. The scenery is stunning, especially from over 5,000 feet. There is an almost photo-realistic look to the desert as you look down at the rivers and wadi's of Iraq.

The air-to-air action is terrific, with some very exciting dogfights against Iraqi Migs. Had some SAM's fired at me and I followed realistic tactics to defeat them...and they worked! I was all tensed up as I watched the missiles bear down on me. Luckily, they exploded in a black smudge behind my jet. Whew!

The new Interface makes it very easy to be up and flying in just a few short moments. Very intuitive and will be liked by both new users and old pro's. Plus, it runs well on a low-end machine (I've got a 1.3ghtz, which shows no frame rate hits at the highest detail settings).

I've flown multi-million dollar military simulators and this program actually looks nearly identical. For this price, it's a bargain.

Great Game, Fun to Play

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: July 28, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is a great program at a great price. I have played this game and love how it combines strategy and skill. It is a fun game to play. It loaded onto my two year old computer easily and has run perfectly every time. It has never crashed and has had no conflicts with any other programs on my computer. You can dial the difficulty up or down so whether you are a seasoned flight sim player or a beginner you will have fun flying F/A-18 missions into Iraq. You have wingmen that help you so that when you encounter unfriendly Migs you will have some backup. I also love how timely this game is. I was looking for a flight sim that involved Iraq and this is it!

Bugs - Bugs - Bugs

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 12
Date: July 31, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game did not work on my computer. I could not get it to load properly or work properly. I have a newer computer that more than meets the minimum requirements for this game. This was a complete waste of my money.

KICK BUM!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: August 15, 2003
Author: Amazon User

From the great presentation, to the superb graphics, I advise NO ONE to miss out on this game. I saw it in the store at first, and blew it off as just another flight sim. But then, after playing it at a friend's house, I was blown away. The realism is intense and the models are amazing. Great attention to detail and physics were obviously taken into account in the creation of this game. I had previously played FA/18 Korea, but I didn't suspect that another title from this company was to be released. Upon my purchase, I have discovered this to be an even greater challenge and an even more inspiring flight simulation atmosphere. I highly reccomend this game, even to those who aren't big into flight sims. It will be well worth your time and purchase.

no B.S.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 5
Date: September 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game has the strangest control set up i've ever used. Some of it is just plain confusing. Please don't let this be your first flight sim game. Once you get the hang of it though it gets easier, that was after an hour of gameplay though.

Does Not Run

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: November 06, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I installed the game, double-clicked the icon and presto: "FA-18 (..) has encountered a problem and needs to close (...)". There is no support forum anywhere on the planet for this game. My machine is an Athlon XP 2600+, 1GB RAM, GeForce4, etc. Thank God I am billionaire and I can waste piles of money. Hmmm... wait a sec., I'm not, that was a dream I had last night!!!

Don't waste your money

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: November 16, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you are a fan of F18 Korea or K18 PSF this game is a disappointment. It contains a few bugs that completely spoil the game. The HARM missiles are useless on the medium and hard levels, they (the HARMs) fly of course and never hit the SAM sites. In the middle of the game sometimes my joystick just quits working. Also the city of Baghdad contains no building, or Baghdad International airport. I sent an e-mail to Xicat interactive and they never responded. I even downloaded the latest patch for this game and it did not correct these issues. Xicat sent this product to the market without good QA. Don't buy this game unless a new patch comes out to correct the problems.

Not a Sim...Closer to a Arcade Shooter

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: December 02, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It has the graphics and the flying feels right, but this is still in the Arcade class. Why show all the buttons on the HUD displays when they never intend for you to press them? Very little thinking is required, just throttle and shoot when the bells go off.

Operation Iraqi Freedom

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 11
Date: January 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Do not buy this game! After a lengthy install, the game would not even load, but instead went to a black screen which I had to CAD out of. Piece of crap!!

to bad they dont have negative stars

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 12
Date: March 05, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is awful I have more then what is called for for system requirements and It wont load its worthless its almost as bad as lockon but at least with lock on i get a scrambled image of whats going on this game wont even load up and you email the tech people and get no reply what so ever get strike fighters its fun with decent graphics and game play dont waste your money on this waste of a rom

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