Hilarious review on Amazon.

[VVanks]

Read this review on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000066641/ref%3Dpd%5Fsl%5Faw%5Falx-jeb-7-1%5Fvideogames%5F8322943%5F7/102-4609198-0418551

 

Installed a demo. Don't know what the guys who posted below are talking about but im running demo on my rig with following specs:

 

Athlon 1700+

ATI Radeon 9500 moded to 9700

SoundBlaster Live! 5.1

513MB of SDRAM

 

Game settings: resolution 1600X1200, 2x AA, 4x AF

 

The game is smooth. Geting on average 30 FPS. Physical model is great, graphics is great both environment and landscape (i come from Ukraine so i know how landscape is supposed to look like there:)) The only thing i didn't like was the damage model. But i think it's going to be fixed by the release date.

 

Of course it is not an arcade game. It is a hard core flight simulation with everithing that this entails. You gotta learn how to fly.

 

Everyone who is passionate about aviation should get this game!

 

PS. If your demo isnt running great, check out ubisoft's forums. You can learn how to set up you hardware, drivers, and the game right so it is playable.

 

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Average of 30fps? Athlon 1700? 1600x1200? I wonder if he even played the game at all or was he just staring at the menu. Maybe his settings we below lowest? (Or maybe Lomac is optimized for Russian computers only, since that guy's from Ukraine).

 

Funny.

 

There are also some retarded people on there, saying they have 4 gig of ram, 3.75ghz CPU, and it runs slow. Hahaha.

[SAM-Smasher]

That there my friend is an excellent find, ive not long got home from work, read this and has generated a smile on my face, shortly before laughing! :)

 

lol I spent alot of money on my system to get it to run smooth as silk and at high FPS, and some mong reckons he can do it with an AMD 1700.... So I suppose they have a new pig flyable in Lockon then?

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There's some really good ones in there too like this gem..

 

 

14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

 

The end of dumbing down, February 1, 2004

Reviewer: M. Bhangal "S" (Somewhere in Northern England) - See all my reviews

 

If you are not technically minded, don't buy this game. If you dont know the difference between a directX 9 card and a directX 9 compliant card (one works with DirectX 9 but does some of it in software and is useless for many modern games), dont bother. If you have a computer that is not correctly configured, don't even think about it. If you expect to run the game and play well within an hour, stop reading now.

Now for the rest of us, the ones who are sick of console games and know how to build their own machines so that they run well, irrespective of the age of the components. The ones who are prepared to sit down and actually learn how to use a program, and know that a third party manual is the only way to even begin to do justice to this simulation (it is *not* a game)... This one is for you.

 

Runs well on my 9500 pro (heavily overclocked, with an artic cooler mod), XP2000+ processer and 1Gb RAM and with all of the simulation settings set to high except water quality and view distance (set to low and medium respectively) - as per the manual recomendations (hint for all the folks with low frame rates!). Mine is not a high end machine, but I took pains to work out what the most stable drivers were for everything before installing this game (catalyst 3.7 for the video, plus latest VIA sound drivers for my onboard audio), because I knew it would be a demanding game... not on hardware, but on software configuration. Mid range hardware seems okay on all the latest games, but it is drivers and general software config that causes problems, ddespite what some of the other reviewers seem to think.

 

Know what? It worked first time, and it worked well. I'm enjoying going through the LOMAC manual (the one published by Digital Aspirin), learning how to play this beast, and when you get into the zone it is absolutely great.

 

For example, in one mission, I am tasked with shooting down a valuable and well protected AWACs plane that is patrolling off the coast. It is protected by a pair of F4s and there is a patroling squad of F16s nearby.... all of which totally outclasses and outguns my pair of MiGs. So its a case of tactical flight - flying undetected with stealth (passive non-emitting sensor modes), and a BVR attack on the AWACS from behind, placing the F4s in a position where they are furthest away from my escape vector when I de-cloak and initiate the attack. Following my stike on the AWACS, I head for the deck running, using the mountains as cover and using the low level air density to significantly cut missile range (yes, it even models that!). A long chase follows, with the two F4's and my wingman buying it in a short but fast dogfight, when the F4s elect to cut their altitude for speed and catch up. But I make it home, low level all the way to avoid lock-ons by the F16s, who were following at high altitude taking BVR pot-shots.

 

Exhilarated is the only word I can use when I made it to my side's air defences, and watched the F16s turn and sulk back home... Mission Accomplished!

 

Now that's gameplay.

 

S

[SAM-Smasher]

Rofl

[Kenan]

Installed a demo. Don't know what the guys who posted below are talking about but im running demo on my rig with following specs:

 

Athlon 1700+

ATI Radeon 9500 moded to 9700

SoundBlaster Live! 5.1

513MB of SDRAM

 

What I'd really like to know is, WHERE in hell did he get that extra 1mb of RAM?

[Force_Feedback]

What I'd really like to know is, WHERE in hell did he get that extra 1mb of RAM?

 

maybe he thought a mb is 1000 bytes and not 1024