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Falcon 4 Allied Force

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: September 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

It dosent appear to have any game servers.You must create your own.If you dont know the persons Ip you wish to join in a game with your out of luck.Several of my adult online gamming friends purchased this as well and they are all disapointed.
Graphics are sub par and I have a 7800 GTX/OC vid card along with 2 gigs of DDR2 dual channel pc4200 ram.In all fairness I would have to say though that the flying aspect of the sim is very good but could still use some work.
As far as the vender it took almost two weeks to get my product.My friends all went to local retail store and picked theirs up same day with little or no difference in price.

Great Potential for perfect Combat Sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: August 03, 2005
Author: Amazon User

For anyone who remembers struggling with the innumerable patches for the original Microprose Falcon 4 will be delighted with the new F4 AF. It is stable and beautifully rendered. For me the big disappointment was that just like the original F4 this initial release does not support more than one controller. This means that I must choose between my HOTAS COUGAR Stick/Throttle or my CH Pro USB Rudder pedals. Even though the rudder action can be entered via the keyboard <,> and <.> keys and the CH Control manager will allow key mapping, the response is unacceptable loss of control during cross wind landings.

Fortunately this deficiency is to be corrected in the near future - according to the manufacturer.

Until I am able to fly this airplane properly I am not planning to explore the vast possibilities of this potentially awesome Flight Combat Sim

Released half-done

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 13
Date: September 04, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I am a big fan of Falcon 4, and was excited by F4AF, but it has been a big dissapointment. Lead pursuit talks about testing and quality assurance so how did the game get released with the radar mode getting stuck in ACM. This is a very obvious bug and should never have went out the door that way. Another thing is the lack of common sense. They have put so much stuff around an airbase the the fps drops to 5 or less. How can you take off or land with that kind of fps. I have read on the internet that other pilots with superior computers to mine that they also have this problem. I would rather have less things to look at and have a high fps rather than many things to look at and a low fps. This is a problem in my book; this shows that the F4AF team is more interested in bells and whistles than practical matters. I just wish that they would put high fps as a priority rather than the bells and whistles. Another complaint is changing key mappings, but this is not a disaster. A real big complaint is the manual. More or less just a copy of the original F4 manual which is OK, but they got lazy on the manual and left many, many holes in it regarding new features added to the sim (not a game). For example, how the heck do you get TFR (terrain following radar) to work. Do I need a special radar pod or what? Is it even implemented in the game? Why does it say OFF and I can't turn it on. Spent hours trying to figure it out. It might be just that I don't know how to do it, but I have read the manual over and over about this and it is no help. Another thing is the manual (pdf) is protected by password. I can't make notes by copying and pasting because the pdf won't let you. Is there a reason for this? Heck the disk is not copy protected so what is the point in securing the manual pdf? I do like it that the disk is not copy protected. I am sure that real virtual pilots like me will pay the money for the disk; I want to support those programmers for this project. No stupid numbers to type in to install it and no activation. I will NEVER EVER buy activated software. (Don't p_ss down my back and tell me it's raining.) Anyway, I am used to fighting F4 to get it running and F4AF will also be a fight too (it runs but manual has holes). Overall the game is good except it was released a bit early. I admit that I have not had the game that long, but first impressions are lasting impressions. But being the 'jet nut' that I am, I will never give up on it.

Flight Simulation

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 17, 2005
Author: Amazon User

To fully enjoy this game you need to read the information on playing the game. One of the better jet combat flight simulations.

Falcon 4.0: Allied Force

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 08, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Put this together with the HOTAS Cougar Flight Control System, and it's as close to actually flying an F-16 as you're going to get without a full motion simulator!

Great sim

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: June 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Been playing F4 since it came out in one form or another. This version is a great step up from the original version and it's keeping me well occupied. An investment which has been well worth it.

Falcon 4.0h boy this is slow

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 19
Date: October 08, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Falcon 4.0 seems to be less responsive than say FA/18 Korea or MiG 29. By this I mean, the responsiveness of the controls in Falcon 4.0 just doesn't compare to these other flight sims. In MiG 29, when you bank left, you bank left. The response is immediate. In Falcon 4.0, the response is sluggish. Perhaps this is a configuration issue, but out of the box, this is the results that I saw. The upside is that the game provides all of the realism, all of the bells and whistles, that you would expect.

Best falcon release yet

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: August 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Only bug I found is that if you try hooking up LAN by printer ports it doesn't fing the host. Other than that great game!!!

Very disappointing!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: April 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

After having read so many good things on this sophisticated flight sim, I took the big step forward and purchased it.

What a disappointment! I know that art will always be more difficult to master than criticism, and I must first start off with the good features of the game: its flight model is quite realistic. The man-machine interface is impressive, with keys accessible inflight with the use of the mouse pointer. Also, the canopy layout and effects are very well rendered. Combat is fun, and yes, overall, the simulated aircraft feels close to the real deal.

Now, the bad ones. Graphics and terrain rendition are appalling. Looks like the engine that was used was one that was already a bit obsolete at the end of the late 90's. Also, programming your joystick -mine is a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro- turned quickly into a tedious task. The flight modelling of the Falcon is far from perfect and needs some serious improving. Come on, it's so damn difficult to get the aircraft to stall realistically!!

I have been addicted to Lock-On ever since it was first launched. And I am still. And before, I was hooked onto F/A-18 Korea, but it is now cruelly showing its age. Get yourself Lock-On, and nothing else, then please tell me what you think of it. It's a day and night difference. Lock-On remains, up to this day and according to me, the very best in advanced, realistic A2A combat flight sim. Period.

Fang Four

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

This is NOT A GAME....REPEAT.....THIS IS NOT A GAME!

This is a F16 FIGHTER SIMULATON!!

You must be prepared to take on the responsibilities of a REAL F16 FIGHTER PILOT!!

"NEVER ask a a man if he is a FIGHER PILOT! If he is, HE WILL TELL YOU! If he isn't, you'll only embarass him".

To qualify for this SIMULATON, you must be willing to devote MANY HOURS to the various systems of the F16 Fighting Falcon which include:

1. Basic flight control systems.
2. Radar systems.
3. Weapons systems.
4. Avionic
5. Communicton
6. Navigation
7. Tatics
8. Refueling.
9. Tower take off AND landing.
9. Ground Control operations.
To name a FEW.

This is no 'Shoot eveything that comes at you' game.

THIS IS AS CLOSE AS IT GETS TO FLYING A REAL F16 WITHOUT HAVING TO CHANGE YOUR PANTS AT THE END OF THE SIMULATION!!

Can YOU hack it??!!

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