Jetfighter 2015
by Global Star
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Product Summary
Brand: Global StarFormat: CD-ROM
Release Date: 2005-08-30
Platform: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP
Model: 21831
Publisher: Global Star
Product features:
- As part of elite Air Force combat unit, uncover secrets behind enemy threat
- Single-player campaign with 15+ missions; 3 controllable modern jetfighters
- Transform from hypersonic jet to hover mode for up close and personal fighting
- State-of-the-art graphics engine with outstanding environments
- Multiplayer Deathmatch via Internet and LAN
Video Game Reviews of Jetfighter 2015
Customer Review: The history of "Jetfighter" and a quick review of this game...
Summary: 3 Stars
I've got, and have played, every single "Jetfighter" series game. Here's what I have to say on this series:
1) "Jetfighter - The Adventure"... this was an attempt to do something similar to what "Wing Commander" did for the Sci-Fi-sim genre... put you in the middle of an immersive scenario. It did so reasonably well, but the game wasn't technically impressive (and cannot be played on any modern hardware, even from within DOSBox or the like, as far as I can tell!).
2) "Jetfighter II"... similar, but technically better... it's playable in DOSBox today, but there's not really much to it. Again, it had a storyline.
3) "Jetfighter III." This was the BIG ONE. Technically, the game had a million problems, but if you had it running on JUST the right hardware (a system with a Voodoo 1 based card, and an ISA-based Soundblaster AWE64 sound card, with a Pentium MMX or Pentium 2 CPU, for the most part) it ran beautifully, sounded beautiful, and was just a heck of a lot of fun. But good luck getting it to work if your system wasn't the "ideal spec" system. You're a new graduate of flight school, assigned to a US aircraft carrier making up part of a UN "rapid deployment force." While aboard-ship, you read newspapers and emails and so forth (there's no interaction with any NPCs) and configure your aircraft (including custom tail-art, if you like). And you get to fly a lot of missions that actually seem to fit together into a believable storyline.
Generally speaking, this was (technical issues aside) the best of the series. But the bugs were SOOO pervasive that the company who made it was effectively killed by their own work. The final patch made it a lot better, but there are still a million technical glitches if you don't have the ideal setup.
4) "Jetfighter IV" - Okay... this was basically an upgraded JF3 game, but set entirely in the San Francisco Bay area (which, for missions, is pretty limiting). It also introduced a whole new slew of bugs... such as having the HUD cause tremendous framerate drops (which you can only avoid by running it on a multi-core, multi-thread system... curiously, that means that today's systems can run it OK but the systems when it was published couldn't come close). It came with a "high-resolution terrain" CD which honestly isn't very high-resolution. And the controls were nightmarish, mainly due to the programmers being "too smart for their own good" and setting things like the throttle up to be "automatically detected" which means that they were normally NOT detected properly. Fan-made patches made this possible to get around (it's mainly config-file settings, but the files aren't in readable english so it's impossible to fix them by hand for the most part, with the exception of one INI file).
It was essentially a mission-pack for JF3, but with a few new/improved features and a LOT of new hassles (to replace the old ones which may or may not have been fixed).
5) "Jetfighter V" Okay, this is essentially an all-new game. It improves the ground modeling a fair amount (including giving you buildings other than your target buildings) and the cloud effects were GORGEOUS. As a general rule, it's a much better-looking game, but the gameplay complexity is reduced so much that it's not really something that can be called a "sim" anymore (technical flight sim characteristics are more along the line of the very first PC flight sim games). Basically, it's intended to be FUN, not "realistic" in any way. The trick with this game, really, is to learn how to program your joystick... because you can't configure it AT ALL from within the program (and in my case, the "throttle" is assigned to my "antenna range knob" rather than the throttle itself... and there's no way to fix that except to reprogram the joystick set to work with the non-configurable game software). It's worth playing, if you do that, though... short, and not very involving, but it can be pretty and fun and low-stress.
6) Finally, what I presume is the "last hurrah" of the Jetfighter series... this one... "Jetfighter 2015." It has NOTHING to do with the prior series (which used real aircraft designs and at least PRETENDED to use believable flight models). This new game cannot be played with a joystick, really (there are ways around that but they're not worth it IMHO). It's a MOUSE game only. It feels more like some of those "transformer/giant-robot" games... your "fighter" reconfigures from "helicopter" to "jet" mode on-the-fly, so you use the "fast" mode to travel, then go into "helicopter" mode to fly in slowly or hover and shoot at your targets using the standard 1st-person-shooter type controls.
The main "pro" here is that it's pretty much bug-free... and it's reasonably fun. The main CON is that it's in no possible way something that can be considered a "flight sim." But for ten bucks... it's not a bad way to waste a Saturday.
Description of Jetfighter 2015
Jetfighter 2015 launches you into the future of the War On Terror. It's February 2015, and the War On Terror has almost been won. But a number of terrorist leaders have escaped to South America and allied with the drug cartels. Now armed with money, new soldiers and advanced equipment, terrorist groups have taken over parts of South America -- and will use them as a base to plan new attacks on America, unless you stop them. Jump into your cutting-edge combat aircraft, uncover the secrets behind this new enemy threat... and annihilate them! Multiplayer Deathmatch via Internet and LANRacing & Flying Games
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