There's also that new Thud Wire F-14 game coming out.

BTW I take exception to the idea that "ED make the best sims evah so it doesn't matter if they're the only ones doing them". Well, it would matter to me since I don't enjoy that type of super-hardcore training sim.

When I first saw the title, I thought this is some kind of April Fool joke article... but this isn't April! So, my second guess was that
this must have been a community-created mod pack for SF or SF 2... but then I read the actual article and realized that this game
is simply a joke, period. And a sick one at that.

I also would prefer more devs making combat flight sims, but alas that ship has sailed.

Anyone here remember 1998-1999? Those 2 years saw more high-quality sims released than any years before or since, but that was the curse. The market was so divided few could afford to get them all. Despite being a junky I think I bought only 1/2 at most.
The result was all the publishers backlashed against the sim market for poor sales totally disregarding the fact that they'd flooded the market.



The Jedi Master

I second that, the market was too flooded, sims need a lot more time than saying most ego-shooters. But then there is a question, how many sims have actually survived since then? And those were not necesseraliy the best at that time, from a quality standpoint, but those with the most potential. Still those of inferior Quality and potential failed.

Also unfortunately I have been proven true about this travesty of a game. They call themselves "Evolved games"? Well they should rather call themselves "Idiot Games" or "games by the village idiot´s Dumb Brothers".

It would´ve indeed been better to let the venerable Jane´s name rest, instead of doing this, making a game that has no connection to the name and what it stands for. It´s like the package telling you telling it´s orange juice, only that you´ll later find out, it has been 90% watered down. And it should be treated the same way, legally. But then that is a ongoing trend in the gaming industry right now, as many have pointed out. OPF, Gothic (Arcania is no Gothic!) or the Tom Clancy series.

Also I don´t know how big publishers can care that less about their reputation, when JoWood collapsed of that, because nobody bought what they had. While the Team behind the gothic series, Piranha Bytes survived nearly without scratch, because they proved they could make a good game.

What is the problem with Challenging games? I can´t believe that the teenies should be that dumb to only play games like this. Well in some cases I can *cynicism*, but not for most of them!

I remember 2001 walking into EB Games and seeing:

Half the store being PC Games,
and over half the PC Games Side was Flight Sims,
and over Half the Flight Sims Section was JANE's
(Fighters Anthology, F-15, F-18, USAF, Occasionally USNF'97/ATF, LongBow II, 688i, Fleet Command, IAF, and not to mention the PACKs that included those titles.)

I think if you looked at the PC selection at EB games today it would look the same games, but the boxes would be scruffier. lol

Plus the elevators on the 688i were far too small, pitch control on that thing was a nightmare

PFunk,

Good, honest review ... no punches pulled. That is what this software niche needs to keep it improving.

Thanks

How'd you say about climbing back into our ole Jane's F/A-18 and bomb the office of whoever made this one? Like I can say that..I lost the CD long ago..but that's what piss me off even more! I thought I could regain the old good memories with Jane's sim, in a package with modern graphics, state-of-the-art flight dynamics, etc, etc.. I almost bought this mess when I saw it in a gaming store here a few days ago, thank God I was in a hurry.
Oh, and my wallet says thank you for the review.

Good point Jedi. I also remember those times, since I started simming in 1997 with DID's EF2000 and Longbow Gold being my very first flight sims. I remember walking into the local CompUSA store and acting like a kid at a candy store. Those were the days.
Pescador

Man I miss those days. Janes F-15, Falcon 4.0, EAW, Janes WW2 fighters, Red Baron 2 etc. If I had known that would be the best of flight sim times I would have relished it more and not took it for granted.