This one is for Deuce...
I am a bit of a Flight Sim addict as you know, here's the best fighter PC game ever made (though I still love Jane's F15E): Falcon IV. The game is at least ten years old and its textures are severely dated.
It's never been bettered as a hardcore jet sim game.
Here's a typical mission
...its hard to follow if you havent played the game, but watch for A/A and A/G threats as the F16 ingresses for a bombing run against air defenses (Wild Weasel role).
Oh...you want details? Here...this is how you start up the engines:
Falcon was made by Microprose and was released completely broken. Microprose later folded and then game was leaked to the community who took it over.
Falcon IV: Allied Force was released as the product of numerous community modifications (including some of my own inputs - small as they were).
Engines inop? Try a power-off landing:
Here's a typical community mod (flyable F14)
It's campaign mode is unreal: theater war modeled down to the unit level. Imagine flying over the FLOT in Bosnia during the Serb War or in North Korea?
In the North Korean campaign starts with NK troops coming across the DMZ...the UN has to keep em back. If you beat the NK forces, the Chinese and then the Russians come in and help.
Sphincter tightener...the allies are winning...so China enters the fray:
You've seen the basic game...here's what the modders have been doing:
Falcon IV OF : 6 DOF mod:
Though the terrain textures aren't great you can get top notch textures for a price (folks are selling'em on the web). BTW...check out the 6 degree of freedom cockpit that modders have introduced (Open Falcon project):
And then there are the real hardcore addicts:
