Click on a pilot, and you'll instantly jump to him or her. When you move the mouse to the bottom of the screen, a display slides up, showing each pilot's status. Because the game is driven by a campaign in which success depends on managing six pilots in real time, there's a Hollywood sense of a handful of men and women out to save the world from Russia. The campaign's story involves Russia's attempt to seize Iceland for control of the GIUK gap (the Atlantic passage stretching between Greenland, Iceland, and the United Kingdom), which traditional Cold War thoroughfare gamers know and love from 360's Harpoon, Microprose's Fleet Defender, and early Tom Clancy novels. This silliness includes broadly modeled sci-fi weapon systems, a simplified damage routine that uses hard-coded hit points, an overpowered flight model that will leap off the runway like Tinkerbell and glide forever if you shut down your engines, enemy aircraft that blatantly violate their real-world capabilities, and even the ludicrous equivalent of a boss battle that's waiting for you at the end of the campaign. Eurofighter isn't quite as simple as F-16, but there's still a lot of silliness going on, and it will turn off hard-core flight-sim fans. The German consortium that manages the actual plane's development has endorsed Eurofighter Typhoon, but that isn't saying much-considering that Lockheed Martin endorsed Novalogic's completely unrealistic F-16 Multirole Fighter. It hasn't seen combat yet, but there are several operational models, and it's doing the rounds at air shows, so this game isn't so much outright fiction as it is early speculation. The actual Typhoon is a collaborative effort whose design and production are shared among Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. Eurofighter Typhoon forsakes realism for action.Įurofighter has only tenuous claims to realism. But Eurofighter's wings are sadly clipped by its cloying campaign. This wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, considering Rage's shooters have kept improving.

It has much more in common with Rage's shooters.

Although DID's sims have gotten increasingly complex and sophisticated, Eurofighter Typhoon reverses that trend. It is, instead, an airplane action game from Rage, the creator of Incoming and Hostile Waters and Digital Image Design, the creator of EF2000, F-22 Air Defense Fighter, and the Total Air War campaign add-on. You might be tempted to point at Eurofighter Typhoon among the new releases and say, 'Hey, look, flight sims aren't dead after all!' But you'd be wrong, because it isn't much of a flight sim.

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