What does F-22 offer to the genre? Graphic delights I With Falcon 4 and Jetfighter III still stuck in the hangers, Novalogic find themselves primarily competing against the likes of Ocean/DID (with EF2000), EA (Jane's ATF) and, I guess, MicroProse (Top Gun). Sadly Killsuit isn't due until well into next year, so we'd better get back to F-22. Killsuit is a shite name, sure, but we've witnessed an early version and it's looking very with similar-ish but faster gameplay, a choice of first-and third-person perspective views (the latter with fixed-wall and follow mode options), highly-detailed graphics with real-time lighting, a Hollywood script, tons of fmv cut-scenes, oh, and a multi-player team-mode option, and you'll get the rough idea. The thing is, you see, most PR and marketing types are far too busy (poor things) to read through whole articles, so now we're at the 'bit in the middle' I have the ideal opportunity to tell you about Novalogic's top secret (yes, even more secret than F-22), sci-fi-action-adventure-type-thingy, called Killsuit, safe in the knowledge that no one will find out.
Must be pretty good, we figured.īut we'll come to F-22 in a minute. To bring you this preview, we were given a password-protected and code encrypted-disc, forced to sign a non-disclosure agreement and banned from taking our own screenshots. It's top secret but, as of now, probably not as secret as Novalogic's new simulation. In other words, it's a jet fighter for the 21st century. And this, when you think about it, is exactly what it's like running DID's EF2000 on a 486.Īnyway, the F-22 is effectively America's answer to Europe's EF2000. When I look out of a Boeing 747's window at 32,000ft, the landscape -if I can make it out at all - hardly seems to be moving. Admittedly, if I had actually piloted a plane (like, at all), rather than merely sitting on my arse drinking, smoking, eating, smoking, watching films, sleeping, smoking, eating and smoking (roughly in that order) as a member of the paying public, I'd be even better placed to bring you an authoritative low-down. Still, having flown several thousand miles in the last year or so, I'm ideally positioned to preview the latest in state of the art flight simulators. How disappointed was I to find that my mission was, in fact, to check out a jet fighter simulator based on the F-22 and not a couple of 'fit' young ladies? Well, how big is the play area in this bloody flight sim thing? Okay, so Gladiators isn't my favourite tv programme, but which red-blooded male could resist the 'talents' of two of its 'biggest' stars? Jet! Lightning! fantastic!Īnd then the penny dropped. next week." Alrighty! Naturally, I was excited. The message was garbled, but the assignment sounded interesting: "Warren.
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