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REVIEW: JET COMBAT SIMULATOR
by EPYX, Inc
1043 Kiel Court
Sunnyvale, Ca. 94089
Reviewed by: Hautzener 79756
JET COMBAT SIMULATOR picks up where
F15 STRIKE EAGLE left off (i.e,
landing and taking off). The game
play mainly consists of engaging and
shooting down an enemy aircraft
before it has a chance to destroy
your four bases. This sounds a lot
easier than it is because the F15 is
not only hard to control, but
sighting the enemy airplane is
extremely difficult. Plus you can
only shoot at it with your main guns;
no missiles.
Fortunately, you do have a map mode
which gives your position in
reference to your four bases and the
position of the enemy aircraft plus
you have a radar screen which gives
your heading, the distance and
azimuth to the enemy airplane (or to
a selected ground beacon). You are
not, however, given the fancy sight
for spotting far off aircraft as is
found in F15 STRIKE EAGLE.
The best part of this simulation is
that you must actually land your F15
on a runway (and come to a complete
stop to refuel and rearm) in addition
to taking off.
Taking off is easy; just give it
fuel thrust, keep the F15 aligned
down the runway, and once your speed
exceeds 130 knots, haul back on the
stick and off you go into the wild
blue yonder.
Landing is the hard part. The game
does have a landing practice mode
which makes landing easier to
practice. The easiest way I found to
land was to apply full flaps, get my
altitude down to 5 feet, and when the
F15 crosses the runway's threshold,
chop power, apply the brakes, and
pray.
EPYX must not believe in letting
people take the easy way out 'cause
there is no eject button. You only
get one chance.
One last item-- EPYX uses their
fast loader with J.C.S. which loads
the game in under 20 seconds. If you
listen closely when it's loading, you
can hear the stepper motor click off
one track every second. This makes
loading the game a pleasure because
you don't have to wait a lifetime to
play.
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