Advanced Tactical Fighters
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Electronic Arts' $59.95 Advanced Tactical Fighters (ATF) futuristic airplane wargame is a new and improved version of EA's US Navy Fighters. ATF contains technical information from the international defense-industry publisher Jane's Information Group. The game's new features include support for eight dogfight players over the network, additional futuristic aircraft, modem/serial connection head-to-head play and two new game campaigns. ATF's seven planes include the XF-29 Forward Swept Wing, F-22, F-117A Night Hawk, XF-32 ASTOVL short-takeoff/vertical-landing fighter, French Dassault Rafale multi-role fighter, XF-31A EFM fighter and the B-2A Spirit bomber. The two new campaigns include a flight over Egypt in 1998 and a Far East mission in 2002. ATF does not include graphics or frame-rate performance improvements, but includes several new functions and utilities. ATF is a serious simulation game and requires a powerful computer and lengthy training.
Publication Name: PC Entertainment
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 1093-295X
Year: 1996
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This Means War!
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Starjammer Studio's $48.99 This Means War! is a new real-time wargame that offers excellent graphics and sound but is overly slow and difficult to play effectively, even on a fast PC. It is Windows 3.1-based and far less efficient than competitors, such as Blizzard's Warcraft II and Virgin's Command and Conquer. Users click on units and drag-and-drop to position warriors for various strategies. Minerals are the valued material fought over in the game. Players start out with 50,000 units, but engineers must build a mine quickly and keep the barracks and factories working at peak efficiency. Combat is not as well-balanced as it could be, although the game does use line-of-sight well. Finely modeled units are rendered crisply in Super VGA, but the Windows 3.1 graphics engine is so slow that it severely hampers play.
Publication Name: PC Entertainment
Subject: Hobbies and crafts
ISSN: 1093-295X
Year: 1996
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