What are a some good air combat games for the PC?

11/2/2008 6:00:39 PM

Crimson Skies is quite good... if you don't mind the extremely dated graphics that is. Shouldn't be hard to find a torrent of it, either.

The flight physics aren't quite as realistic as actual flight sims, but it's not dumbed down to a console-gaming level of flight combat, either. I'd say they keep a good balance between realism and action/excitement.

[Edited on November 2, 2008 at 6:11 PM. Reason : .]

11/2/2008 6:01:38 PM

Microsoft's combat flight simulator series was fun back in the day, if you're ok with the whole sim part, which is adjustable of course. (Also that is set in WWII) The IL-2 Sturmovik series I have heard is also excellent in that respect.

11/2/2008 6:08:53 PM

xwing vs. tie fighter.

11/2/2008 6:24:27 PM

^holy shit, THAT'S what the game was called.

I love that game so much but I haven't been able to remember the name of it ever since it came up in a conversation ~8 months ago. THANK YOU simonn. You are a god amongst men.

11/2/2008 6:27:48 PM

X-Wing Alliance was the last in the series and was much improved graphically, but yes, that was a great game

11/2/2008 6:35:52 PM

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"THANK YOU simonn. You are a god amongst men."

yeah you know, if i had a nickel etc etc.

11/2/2008 6:43:20 PM

Terminal Velocity!!!

11/2/2008 6:43:21 PM

u probably never heard of this one

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Yeager%27s_Air_Combat

11/2/2008 9:48:33 PM

Aces Over Europe was fun back in the day. I think there was also Aces of the Pacific.

I really wish they would remake Tie Fighter.

11/2/2008 10:15:16 PM

Dude, I played the SHIT out of some CYAC


my top flight sims of all time:

SWOTL
Falcon 3.0
CYAC
Gunship & Gunship 2000
F-19
F-15 Strike Eagle II
EF2000
Strike Commander
oh and TIE Fighter

[Edited on November 2, 2008 at 10:47 PM. Reason : Xwing vs TIE and Xwing weren't nearly as good as TIE Fighter.]

11/2/2008 10:32:20 PM

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"u probably never heard of this one"

played it all the time on mac BACK in the day

11/2/2008 10:34:33 PM

When I was younger, I thought those Janes simulation series were the best things to ever play. At my age, they were way too advanced for me and I couldn't really do anything, but I had always hoped that they would continue to churn out these type of combat simulation games.

Too bad they never really did. I can't remember the last good combat simulation game unless you look at ace combat for video game consoles.

11/2/2008 10:35:11 PM

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"played it all the time on mac BACK in the day"

represent

11/2/2008 11:27:35 PM

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"I can't remember the last good combat simulation game unless you look at ace combat for video game consoles."

hahahahahaha ace combat is far far from a simulation

[Edited on November 2, 2008 at 11:33 PM. Reason : still an awesome game, don't get me wrong]

11/2/2008 11:33:05 PM

I remember chuck yeager's air combat, too. I got it with a "top ten mac pack" of games that included Theme Park, Syndicate (great game btw) and a few others. Those were the days

11/3/2008 12:44:17 AM

^Syndicate was fucking awesome

11/3/2008 12:50:33 AM

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"I remember chuck yeager's air combat, too. I got it with a "top ten mac pack" of games that included Theme Park, Syndicate (great game btw) and a few others."

same here!

11/3/2008 7:18:05 AM

I used to play the hell out of some Janes ATF, Janes Longbow series, and a Warbirds demo/offline stuff. I dunno how good any of those would be today though.

11/3/2008 10:20:11 AM

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"X-Wing Alliance"

one of my favorite games of all-time

they definitely need to bring back the series

11/3/2008 10:24:42 AM

i'm surprised they haven't actually, w/ the way geroge lucas has been whoring out the star wars universe as of late.

11/3/2008 10:29:10 AM

The shit.

11/5/2008 12:54:48 AM

Terminal Velocity.

I'm walls1441 and i approved this message.

11/5/2008 1:11:55 AM

Aces of the Pacific/ over Europe
but they're ancient now

11/5/2008 1:22:29 AM

^^Hell yeah someone else knows what i'm talking bout!

11/5/2008 2:05:39 AM

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"xwing vs. tie fighter."

I would kill to have a working copy of this on my computer right now, but alas it doesn't play well with XP.

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"I used to play the hell out of some Janes ATF"

ATF GOLD was the flight sim back in the day, I loved that game and I think I found a patch recently to get it to work on XP but I haven't tried it yet.

11/5/2008 7:34:33 AM

I also remember spending too much time playing Descent on OS/2 warp back in the day.

11/5/2008 9:23:21 AM

need another good one....

11/5/2008 11:53:17 AM

You guys remember the flight sims that came with the cardboard keyboard overlays?

That was awesome

11/5/2008 1:46:46 PM

My only copies of TIE Fighter are on 3.5" floppies under my bed at my parents' house

X-Wing Alliance almost works fine on XP.
It's pretty tough with my crappy gamepad instead of a joystick.

There's an opensource Battlestar Galactica mod of Freespace2 called Beyond the Red Line
I tried it out and looked like it would be pretty fun...if it weren't freaking impossible.

11/5/2008 5:57:05 PM

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"There's an opensource Battlestar Galactica mod of Freespace2 called Beyond the Red Line I tried it out and looked like it would be pretty fun...if it weren't freaking impossible."

To be fair, it's just a demo, a proof of concept, really.

11/5/2008 6:02:51 PM

you kids who want to play old games realize you could use vmware server, correct?

11/5/2008 7:17:55 PM

how does that work

11/5/2008 7:34:41 PM

Its not a PC game but F-22 Interceptor for Sega was a damn solid game....

11/5/2008 8:01:29 PM

I've always been a fan of the Ace Combat series for console.

11/5/2008 8:21:42 PM

g-loc for sega genesis

11/5/2008 8:56:33 PM