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At the time of going to press though, the official developer line was that 'the list of flyable aircraft is frozen for the initial release'. Although you're limited to flying one of just eight aircraft, there are in fact over 50 different Al-controlled planes in the game. The action centres on the Black Sea region and, in a nutshell, pits NATO forces against the former USSR. And, just like every other fantastic flight sim of late, it's been developed in Russia. No, not Strawberry Switchblade, but the jet combat flight sim.

Rick Astley T Pau Strawberry Switchblade jet combat flight sims - words associated with a bygone era. Can Lock On do for the modern combat flight sim what IL-2 did for WWII dog fighting? Probably not, but at least it shows there's life in the old birds yet. Until recently, the flight sim market was DOA. The only question mark lies over the genre itself.

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Of course, you can always run away in your F-15 - an option not readily available to the slow-moving A-10A.Д«ased on the code we've been playing, Lock On looks good and plays great. For example, the tank-busting Warthog can take a huge amount of enemy fire and still keep moving, while the sleek F-15C Eagle drops like a brick when hit by a bit of stray shrapnel. Not only is the enemy Al pretty smart but each aircraft has its own unique set of benefits and flaws. Each mission has a unique brief, goal and hostile targets, and some of them are very tricky. The maps within the game are fairly diverse, with around 36 different missions within the game.

Fires from burning tanks look, well, like a tank on fire, and hitting the afterburners will create a heat haze.

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The developers have made full good of 3D effects, with cannon fire leaving wispy trails of smoke that don't look like the 'black candyfloss' seen in other games. Ground objects - ships, tanks, buildings etc - also look great, and the water effects are top-notch, although you'll need a reasonable PC, a good 3D card and lots of RAM to really crank the graphics up. This is a shame, as all the craft have been done to a high standard. However, as most modern jet fighters tend to use 'stand-off weapons (ie air-to-air missiles), it's not often you get really up close and personal with other aircraft. Graphically it's good - on a par with the high standards set by IL-2 Sturmovik. But if this appears a tad ovenwhelming (and it can be) then the game can be scaled down for the most humble novice and still be lots of fun. The game is a high-end sim for the seriously hardcore flight simmer, with over 200 different options and commands as your disposal. The American fighter F-15C Eagle and the much loved, but very ugly A-10A Thunderbolt II tank buster (better known as the Warthog). The developers have stuck to their tried and tested format - modern jet combat over Russia, this time between the former USSR and NATO - and old Flanker players will spot three identical aircraft from the series: the German MiG-29A, Russian MiG-29A, and MiG-29C along with the SU's themselves: the SU-25 Frogfoot, SU-27 Flanker B and SU-33 Flanker D. But the pioneering developer has finally come back with a corker -Lock On: Modern Air Combat. SU 27 Flanker 2 was launched four years ago. We haven't heard much from Russian developer Eagle Dynamics lately, not since the utterly fantastic