For some reason, on holiday, I had a massive urge to play this. I can remember many a day spent playing this on my SNES over the summer holidays, such was it's greatness.
I suppose what I loved most about it was it's sense of a living, breathing war zone. You had radars to take out, and AA guns which would shoot you down in an instant, unless you used your cunning to take out the radars first. It was one of the first games that made you use logic before you flew in all guns blazing. Ok, so you were sometimes lead by the hand sometimes, but an elite pilot could do some of the later missions way before they were supposed to be done.
It had an open-endedness that felt so fresh at the time. You felt so vulnerable against the big guns, but puny soldiers didn't stand a chance.
Absolute masterpiece of a game. As was Jungle Strike. Anyone play Urban Strike?
I suppose what I loved most about it was it's sense of a living, breathing war zone. You had radars to take out, and AA guns which would shoot you down in an instant, unless you used your cunning to take out the radars first. It was one of the first games that made you use logic before you flew in all guns blazing. Ok, so you were sometimes lead by the hand sometimes, but an elite pilot could do some of the later missions way before they were supposed to be done.
It had an open-endedness that felt so fresh at the time. You felt so vulnerable against the big guns, but puny soldiers didn't stand a chance.
Absolute masterpiece of a game. As was Jungle Strike. Anyone play Urban Strike?
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