But be warned, the graphics are basically year 2000 quality. If you are really interested in flight sim that tries to replicate realistically being part of a war, this is the game to get. You can obliterate their aircraft through attrition or bombing all their airfields, and you will have air superiority and you won't have any enemy fighters against you in future missions. If you get lucky and shoot down 6 enemy aircraft on your mission, you will notice it on the later missions, as their air patrols won't be as thick. This really brings out the immersion, you feel like you are a single peon doing your part in an entire war.
You can see tanks fire shells at each other, SAM missiles shooting down other aircraft doing their respective missions, etc. As you are flying your mission, all the other missions and the war is still happening around you. The fun part is jumping in and doing the fighting in game flying your F-16. You also have the ability to command tanks, and schedule flights, etc. You should literally play the entire game without even flying a mission, just watching how the war unfolds on the 2d map.
In order to prevent repair units, you have to bomb their factories, etc etc etc.Įntire war is being run in realtime, even if you are not even flying a mission. Once you strike the airbase, the enemy has repair units to fix the runways, now the game has to schedule attack missions on that repair unit to prevent runway from being fixed. It's all coordinated, and planes converge on a target at the right time. Now we need strike missions on the runway. Now we've punched a hole through their defenses. Then we need to send in escort to take out enemy aircraft. In order to do that, we need to schedule SAM strike missions to take out anti-air missiles on their side. Enemy fighters keep coming in, so we need to take out their airbase.
Now that we have the recon, schedule some attacks, enemy tanks keep coming over this bridge, so lets schedule a strike mission to take it out, now they have to find other roads to travel to get across the border. We also need to start scheduling transport missions so fuel and supplies don't runout at certain bases. We also need fighters patrolling these assets so they don't get shot down. We also need AWACS aircraf to spot enemy aircraft. We need refueling planes in the air for our aircraft.
So the game starts calculating how to achieve the goals.įirst things first, we need recon, and see where enemy troops are at. Now, as F-16's you are based in South Korea. The game is going to set goals for your campaign "Capture North Korea." In order to do that you need to capture the 2 largest cities, Wonson, and Pyongyang. The dynamic campaign in Falcon4:AF is like a realtime strategy game. Think of a real time strategy game where you have land, assets, production, time to repair, time to resupply, radars, defensive units, offense units, etc.
The reason why I say its one of the best games ever made: They built a realistic simulator ontop of a complex strategic war game. Allied force is one of the best games ever made for a PC.ġ) DirectX7 based graphics engine (shaders? None found here, its GeForce2 compatible!)Ģ) Inconsistant quality, when things work good, they are outstanding, other things barely functional.ģ) Campaigns can seem a bit whacky sometimes.