The main principles behind Hard Lock can be summed up as "keep it simple and action-packed" and "when in doubt, steal from Ace Combat." The campaign has the same sort of rhythm that most first-person shooters have: It auto-saves frequently, your health regenerates automatically, you have plenty of ammo (unlimited, in fact), the controls feel completely natural even if you've never played a flight sim before in your life, and you face wave after wave of enemies. Yes, it's cheesy and has its share of flaws, but if you don't take it too seriously, it worms its way into your heart. The NES's Top Gun may have been a disaster, but after 25 years, video games finally have an answer to Tom Cruise's signature action flick. And that's a shame, because Hard Lock is a fun rental for fans of arcade-style aerial combat.
Despite the title's use of a well-known movie license, no one's really talking about this game.
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FARK: Home of Atlanta Deputy Sheriff ( ) » (13 comments) Wasn't the premise that they were on a show of force intercept? So at least the first 2 Tomcats wouldn't have engaged BVR.īurglar breaks into home. Old folks ain't going, Millenials ain't going, and younger kids ain't either. Hollywood is going to wait until theaters are back to capacity again.which will never happen. If there's multiple aircraft in the area, it can't distinguish friend from foe (again, IIRC), so it just finds 'close enough' on the signature and gives it a go.Īlso, IIRC, the Phx isn't all that great, something like 40-50% success rate, so it's just a threat, not a true weapon.īummed Jackass won't be showing. Mad_Radhu: Bslim: LoneCoon: RatMaster999: God damn it.Ĭounterpoint: Leonardo carried around 2 swords and never once sliced into flesh.įrom 100 miles out, the weapon can be fed a target, but is launched blind-missiles don't have 100m radar systems on them-so it just flies along until it reaches the area, kicks on its guidance/radar, and looks for the signature it was fed. If you have long-range active guidance missiles, use the damn things. At the very least it would have forced the MiGs to disengage from the dogfight and take evasive action from the incoming missiles, giving the F-14s already in the dogfight a better chance at getting the upper hand as the MiG pilots would have had their warnings about a radar lock screaming at them as the Phoenix missiles arrived with their active systems locking on. F-14s carried Phoenix active guidance missiles that can be fired from 100 nautical miles away, so the better strategy would have been to have fired off a few of them on the way to the engagement to knock out a few of the MiGs and even the odds before joining in the dogfight.
The final battle was kind of bullshiat anyway. On top of that, Maverick went to the elite pilot combat training school for our Navy and the only lesson he seemed to have learned it was not to leave his wingman, something you learn in basic Flight Training.īy the script he was already better than basically all the instructors (except Viper), his "instincts" put him above all them fancy tactics.Īnd did the generic enemy pilots got to Advanced Weapons school too? Because they were serving some ownage at the end there until Mav decided he was still in the Navy and was supposed to do his f*cking job.īslim: LoneCoon: RatMaster999: God damn it. That's it, and no the final battle was not good, the way it was edited it shows Mav as a coward who got squadron members shot down. Top Gun is not really a good film, it just has good sequences: Personally, I've never seen it all the way through. My wife is but only because Top Gun is one of her favorite movies. I think I was the only one looking forward to Top Gun 2 Rummonkey: Bslim: LoneCoon: RatMaster999: God damn it.