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Not ready for On-Line Multi-Player Play

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: August 25, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is an outstanding flight sim. However, game does not work for on-line multi-player games. Difficulties in on-line connections was an ongoing problem with the original version, and if anything this version is worse than it was with the original. Even with instructions provided to setup a multi-player game, players can not connect. This is definatly a show stopper, since multi-player games are the most enjoyable.

ENORMOUS potential, but insanely difficult gameplay.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 17
Date: September 19, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Almost every aspect of Falcon 4.0: Allied Force screams, "Potential, potential, potential!" The realism, the graphics, and the flight model are just absolutely out of this world. But, when I started progressing through the training missions and thumbing through the several hundred page manual, I became quickly dismayed. I tried on more than a few sessions for several hours to land this plane in the training missions to no avail. I followed every instruction in the manual to the best of my ability, read article postings, wrote to the programmers, updated the game, and I still ended up spinning on the runway spinning with smoke billowing from my fractured Falcon.

I finally came to the inconclusion that it's virtually impossible to land the plane, that I received a bad copy of the game, or the game is just so difficult that it's no fun to play. I tried some of the other missions, in which one learns how to use the radar and weapons systems, and I'm used to having to remember Shift-Alt-Ctrl-Meta keycodes in order to play flight sims, but this game is just over the top.

I threw in the towel in total frustration and decided that it was just a waste of money and time souping my system up to play it.

I am quite disappointed

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 8
Date: September 15, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It is said that this is one of the best flight simulators on the market. I am disappointed with this game. Eurofighter 2000 seemed to be much better.
In Falcon 4.0 simulator, aircraft does not behave realistically all the time. I managed to land without any problems with one wheel hidden and front one turned 90 degrees right. Terrain is not so high detail as advertised and it appears blocky from high altitudes (it does not look like satellite photo, instead it looks more like a puzzle). There is option called ACMI, which lets watch your recorded flights. Whenever I have recording on, my game crashes after misssion all the time (but fortunatelly video is saved anyway). Rocket trails on video do not dissapper when you rewind it, and not all aspects of the flight are recorded (communication, and certain states of the plane for example afterburner) are not recorded.
AI could take care of the second pilot in a back seat (do things which second pilot should do).
Other things work very well, AI is very tough (enemy AI controlled pilots fly very well), and ACMI video replay replays the mission exactly as it happened even when certain states of the plane are not recorded. Graphically old Eurofighter 2000 was much more advanced (had better graphics (more graphically detailed simulation, more colorfull not puzzle like textures, more detailed terrain, better looking interior) and bigger choice of weapns.
There is mission editor, multiplayer and skirmish like.
In skirmish and multiplayer you can fly many diffrent planes (not only F-16) but they look inside exactly like F-16 and behave like one too, so at this point game is quite unrealistic. These jets can take huge loads of weaponry in multiplayer too so it makes the game even less realistic.
Falcon 4.0 is a nice game, however because of the reasons mentioned above I got quite disappointed.

Burn and turn at Mach 1

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 13
Date: February 26, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Realistic and detailed flight sim at a great price.

Impressive

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: April 22, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I love simulators and this game is fantastic with more realism than I anticipated however I believe that there are more people like myself who although love simulators is real busy in real life (between family, job, sports, workouts n studies). What would have made this more enjoyable if a life size keyboard layout was provided with the game as was done in Jane's F-22. I'm still looking for the key to select a target.

Falcon 4.0, XP version

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

If you liked Falcon 4.0, you will like this game. Its the same game with some fixes and additional features. Some audio has been enhanced, new theater added. I was only disappointed by the same 'ol graphics which can be a dissappointement if your used to looking at the new graphic engines these days, the upside however, is I can put all settings to max with no jitters on my 2.8Ghz machine. Manual is PDF, so if you saved your old F4 manual your in luck. Or pick up an old manual/game, itll be cheaper than getting the new manul printed out @ the copy shop. For $25 tho, definately worth it.

excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 25, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game loaded easily and worked right away. It is very indepth as to flying and to fly as an expert it'll take a while to learn all the controls within the cockpit. I use a thrustmaster Fox2 pro joystick to fly with and it works perfectly with this simulation. I have no negative response to this game although the manual is 716 pages long. If you are into realistic flying simulators then this is an excellent choice but realize that this is not just a point and shoot simple flight simulator.It's well worth the money.

There can be only one.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 16, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I am a huge flight sim fan. Been a virtual pilot for 2 1/2 years now with more than 800 hours and loving it. I read the reviews for this game, both one and five star, read about the graphics issues, and thought, u know what, how bad can it be?

Well the first thing I noticed was the cockpit. This thing is highly detailed and complex. You have navigation,weapon, and communication systems squeezed (and I mean squeezed) into this small space. Technology has made it lot less cumbersome than it should be, and thats how it is in a real Viper.

If you're a person whose sole purpose to go to external view and watch how cute the jet is, or to try to pinpoint your house on the ground, then this is not for you. Don't get me wrong, the graphics are there. The Jet is moderately detailed, from the pilot fully geared in the cockpit to the tiny registration number on the back. But when you fire up the after burners for example, the nozzle expands and contracts, but the fire is like a set of lines with crayon in the middle.

This was done purposefully by the manufacturer because, from my experience with flight sims, a highly detailed cockpit and a highly detailed environment don't do so well together. They made it universally compatible; this can run on any computer. It takes about 1 gig on the hard drive (you dont need the cd after installation) but could've easily been 6 gigs, telling from looks of the cockpit.

All in all a great game. The start up procedures for the Viper are excellent. ATC is great, the manual, oh my, how could I forget the manual. After three days I'm still in the process of reading this. If you want to learn the F-16 (why? I dunno, maybe in a couple years aliens will invade and all able-bodied civilians will have to man a jet
;p), you have to read this fully. Right now I'm learning to identify and destroy moving and static ground targets. Still a long way to go but it's fun cuz there's a training mission at the end of each chapter.

So to Lead Pursuit on a job well done and i'll see you in the skies.

This old game stood the test of time...

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 01, 2008
Author: Amazon User

It's already 2008 and I just bought Falcon 4 Allied Force. Looking at the competition, this game still is one of the best combat sim in the market (in terms of features and simulation quality). Best of all, it does not have any technical issues with more modern hardware and OS (I'm running on Vista and NVidia 8400) despite its age.

CULT Following.....

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Well, after purchasing Falcon 4.0 WAY back years ago for my Mac, I HAD to get this. It's stable, and runs great. Graphica are becoming dates now, but they have terrain updates out there...Hi-tiles is good.

BUY IT if you want THE F-16 Flight sim......it's a BEAR to fly and do all of the stuff you need to do, but it's realistic and no one said flying the real one is easy without training.

THe manual is 600 Pages...so start reading now.....

;)

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