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Awesome Game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: August 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This game gives you total control over a detailed war environment. It is an excellent simulator, but is also a vibrant real time strategy game. You will NOT be dissapointed with this purchase

Too real for me!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Initially I was greatly impressed with the graphics and the models; however I found the "realism" in flying the F-16 is simply too complicated for me. Getting to memorize all the key combinations in flight is difficult for me! Although a great sim, I play it rarely. The time it takes to enter a mission objective is too long {for me}, frequent freeze ups occur when I "switch" targets. For those with patience, this is the most realistic sim on the mkt; I wish I knew someone who can educate me on game "patches".

Awsome

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This sim is awsome. Get this: I'm running this sim on Windows 98, Pentium-3 800mghz, 600 meg ram, and the real kicker... A Voodoo 550 card with 64 meg of ram. with the graphic settings turned down a little the sim works well. I did not expect the sim to work at all. I can't wait for a better system to run this sim.

Great Game -- even for 7 year old

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: June 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

.....I bought this game for my son's seventh birthday. Because I was afraid it would be too complex, I also bought a high-end WW2 Combat Flight Simulator.
.....Flying the game on a duo core laptop.
.....The WW2 simulator crashed the graphics multiple times and is harder to fly (then Falcon is in simplified mode). We haven't flied it more than 2 days.
.....Falcon on the other hand is getting flown all of the time. Sure, the realistic options are incredibly hard (which I like), but the simplified is arcade-like and a blast to fly.
.....You definitely need a joystick. My one attempt at networking to another computer on my home network was a failure. And it will take me a year to understand all of the intricacies as a part time player. Still, there is such an andrenaline rush flying something that acts and feels like an F-16 in a 20+ plane dogfight that there is no way I couldn't rate it 5 stars.
.....Thank you Atari for keeping this old favorite alive!

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 17 / 65
Date: December 29, 2005
Author: Amazon User

As a pilot and a computer aircraft simulation nut, I bought this eagerly.

What a waste of money!
Unless you are prepared to spend 3-4 months or more learning this very complex game, forget it!

Just the radar takes 30 pages of the manual!

The manual is in PDF format, & is over 700 pages long. To print this out on a color printer will cost about $175 at 22 cents a page. It is also impossible to print a legible keyboard layout.

Give this one a miss, and try Pacific Fighters or IL-2.

Didn't anyone learn from Jane's F-15 ; this was a great classic, and has never been equalled. It took a week to learn.

A job to install

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 9
Date: October 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I bought this product in the hopes the legendary complexities of Falcon were fixed; nope. In the past, there has been the "Falcon dance," a complex job of installing the game and updating it's myriad patches and so forth. The consolidated Allied Force was supposed to put all that work to rest. So it was a great disappointment to me when I could not reinstall the game after I uninstalled it. The fix requires editing registry files; something I will not do. Too bad, because the sim obviously has rich content and a dedicated fan base. But I have a full time job already.

Falcon 4.0 Allied Force

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 13
Date: October 26, 2005
Author: Amazon User

A great game over all. Very realistic flight models and enemy al. Graphics are pretty good.

High learning curve

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: September 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Maybe it would help if I played this game for more than two hours. But usually if after two hours I'm still crashing or getting my ass kicked I quit. Really high learning curve. I wouldn't recommened it unless you can already fly an F16.

Great game! Very realistic!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 04, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game was/is awesome. Good flight sims are very rare, and before I found this game I was at a loss for a good sim. I gave it four stars because the learning curve is somewhat high. You can however blow down the realism( I am rather stubborn though and didn't ). Overall great game, decent graphics and very realistic.

Pretty Good

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 14, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Not bad ,but not as great as other reviewers would lead you to believe,first off game play is very good,dynamic campain,lots of variety in missions,the learning curve is steep but that should be no surprise with this title.
Now the graphics-you guys gotta be kidding me,compared with other flight sims that came out about the same time, notably Lock On and Pacific Fighters this game is lame graphicly and I mean lame. Flying close to the ground is like flying over spilled paint, it's terrible.
And their bragging about it.Luckily there is a fix called Hi-Tiles that addresses that problem fairly well but will cost you another 12 bucks or so but it's worth it. You can find it at the games web site.
Controls, there's lots of them, but what I found annoying were the outside view from the cockpit, instead of a smooth look at the world outside you get this snappy and confusing hatswitch view that doesn't seem natural,you'll get used to it eventually ,you'll have to. Dont get me wrong this is a very good sim but the reviews of the past seem to come from starved Janes Sim fans. But I do recommend this sim.

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