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Romeo Faison review military disabled

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 22, 2000
Author: Amazon User

No doubt about it, this is the best helicopter sim on the market today. If anyone can find one better, let me know. I have longbow , and team apache,and all the rest of them, and they do not come close to the reality of Gunship, thank you. you have a spotter in front of you and your wingmen, giving you updated grid coordinates, simply because some targets are always moving. this will help you perhaps. Fly close to the ground as you can,when you need to update the grid to make the waypoints for your wingmen. your Copilot/Gunner cannot lock a TARGET' too well when it is raining, and visibility isn't good. I hope this information help those, that think this is a bad game. One more thing, the Apache does have wheels on it like a Jet,so one would tend to believe that you could probably strafe the ground while doing over 50 m.p.h.,Think about this the next time you play, or rate this game. thank you" now I don't mean hit the ground in a solid manner, PEACE:

AWESOME

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Run to the store and buy this game now. I've had Gunship for 1 year now, and trust me it never gets boring. Graphics are AWESOME. AI is awesome. helicopters (regular and AI) are incredibly detailed.
OK let me introduce you to my PC. I dont own a high end computer: 1.7 Ghz celeron, 256 mb SDRAM, 120Gig western digital HD, GeForce4 4200. I have All of sliders maxed out and I never ever experienced a single glitch in game (there aint no FPS counter, but I'd say game runs @ about 40FPS). U MUST HAVE for this game is a flight stick (preferably with twist handle and throttle). yes you can control the chopper with a mouse and fire by clicking but you cant really enjoy the game. With the flightstick feel free to set realism to 100% and go shoot some NAZI's. One thing i dont like is that you cant crash unless shot down. hard landings will get you damaged not crashed.
This glitch is not all that important. This game is well worth 10 stars. Nice job Microprose.
Ah one more thing. I played Gunship for 1 year now on two differenet computers and I never had any problems concerning this game. If you do It's your computer or you yourself. Dont blame Microprose for this awesome product.
Well thats it. Hope you enjoy your game.

SUPER ACTION War Bird!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Jump into a state-of-the-art warbird and hit the ground gunning in a furnace of incendiary action. Taste the action from all sides in U.S.,British, German and Russian Gunships. Experience total immersion at the front line in one of today's most advanced weapons platforms. Definitely get the feel of flying a Chopper into battle! Your gonna love this one! Buy it complete with all the bells and whistles and STRAP YOURSELF IN!!!

Stunning

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

hey, wussup. just wanted to tell ya that this game is awesome.i own Gunship! for 2 years now and i love it. i ran this game on a piece of S#!t computer loaded with crappy celeron @ 1.7Ghz, 256 mb SDRAM, and a lot of real nasty stuff. but to tell you graphix ran like a bat outta hell. this all comes down to the fact that
Gunship! is able to run incredibly well on low powered "dinosaurs". WEll lets get to the game itself
The area of operations is most of the Europe.it is all filled with not photoreal but visually stunning scenery: trees, airfields, 3D buildings, water, and the most importantly the cities. ah there are also forests to hide in. talking of aircraft Quality it is visually amazing. helicopters are incredibly detailed. on the well powered machine you could probly see inside of the gun muzzle. weapon effects are amazing. there is bautiful muzzle flash, missile smoke, explosions. there are also AI enemy and friendly forces made up of jets, whirlybirds, ground forces and nicely animated 3D soldiers with weapons in their hands. enemy and frinedly tanks have rotating guns and posess nice recoil effects when firing. AI (artificial intelligency) is also well detailed.
When you get to the battle area get ready for possibly the most realistic Air to ground combat ever in desktop simulation. you fire @ bad guys and they fire @ you. get ready to dodge SAm's IR guided handheldmissile from ground troops, heavy artillery fire, and if you get hit make sure you planned a safe escape path or get ready to autorotate down to the ground with betty teling ya wot dont work. that once happened to me in a tiger helicopter.once i got down and crash landed a russian t-80 started circing around me. i waiter for him to stop moving then i aimed my damaged cannon and fired a long burst. ya know the rest.
The bottom line is Gunship! is the most realistic military flight sim i've ever used. i you dont already have it i strongly suggest you get a copy of Gunship!. trust me u wont be disappointed.
well i gotta go to work now. thanx for reading.

Action Sim at it's BEST!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 6
Date: October 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Jump into a state-of-the-art warbird and hit the ground gunning in a furnace of incendiary action. Taste the action from all sides in U.S., British, German and Russian Gunships. Experience total immersion at the front line in one of today's most advanced weapons platforms. Definitely get the feel of flying a Chopper into battle! Your gonna love this one! Buy it complete with all the bells and whistles and STRAP YOURSELF IN!!!!!!!

One of the BEST!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 7 / 10
Date: April 09, 2000
Author: Amazon User

MicroProse delivers again! One of the best helicopter sims out there. Rivaled by maybe only Hind. Finally a sim with intelligent enemy AI. The emeny tanks and apcs actually take protective measures! Excellant graphics. The flight characteristics are superb. It actually flies like a real chopper. A full range of options to set the realism to your liking. If you don't want to crash, so be it. If you want to be challenged you can be. It would have gotten 5 stars but the waypoints were difficult to figure out. Better manual would have helped.

CUT IT SOME SLACK!!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 14, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I am amazed at the great amount of ignorance displayed in these reviews. I am a rated AH-64D Longbow Apache GUNSHIP pilot. With the exception of the Tactical Situation Display (TSD) waypoint system I am very impressed with the accuracy of this game. It is a peek into the world of a gunship crew. I am truely impressed with the way the CPG can use the TADS or the FCR to lock up and zoom in on TGTS in a fire and forget mode. Spot on match with the real thing. Firing on the move, rapid fire of RF missiles, and you even have to be aware of who you are firing at to prevent fratricide because just like the real thing the FCR does not differentiate between friend or foe. I can't believe that you can even call for ARTY support. MLRS (DPICM) or 155mm (HE), that is what it is really like to call for fire, impressive. Granted, there is no way this game can ever be 100% accurate. An example is the air to air mode which the apache has not and the fact that if you look into the pilot or CPG station to the lower left on the power lever quadrant, the power levers are in the off position all the time. However, if that is my only complaint BIG DEAL. I am still impressed!

gunship

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

GREAT GAME IF U LIKE TO FLY, GREAT ACTION, COOL TO PLAY

Mike's Right! It IS pretty good!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I picked up this game over a year ago. Played it on an PIII 800 with a so-so graphics card. Not too bad, but not too impressive, either. But, like everything else, it's all relative.

My friend Mike (the September 2002 reviewer) said it best when he titled his review "Cut it some slack". It's a game. It can't be 100% accurate, no matter how hard the developers try. Heck, we pay contractors to make multi-million dollar simulators for us to train in, and even those aren't perfect (but they're pretty close).
As far as an entertaining game/sim, you could do a lot worse. On a slightly faster machine with a better graphics card, I'd have to say this game really shines. Unfortunately, it's almost too easy in that the game is so forgiving when it comes to crashes/damage to the helicopters. If only they were that durable in real life.

By now, this game is in the dollar bin. Ripe for the pickin'.

GUNSHIP

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 20, 2008
Author: Amazon User

THE PRICE WAS RIGHT. THE GAME KEEPS YOU GOING . NOT TO HARD TO GET A HANDLE ON THE CONTROLS( ATTACK 3} BY LOGITECH WORKS WELL. FIRING IS SIMILAR TO WHAT IT IS IN THE REAL THING, IT'S NOT EASY TO HIT A MOVING OBJECT IF YOU ARE MOVING. SOME THINK YOU JUST SHOOT, BUT THAT'S NOT HOW IT IS. FAIRLY REALISTIC.

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