U.S. Navy Fighters | |
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Developer(s) | Electronic Arts |
Publisher(s) | Electronic Arts |
Designer(s) | Brent Iverson |
Composer(s) | George Sanger and Team Fat |
Platform(s) | DOS |
Release | November 19, 1994 |
Genre(s) | Combat flight simulator |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
U.S. Navy Fighters is a combat flight simulation game developed and published in 1994 by Electronic Arts for DOS PCs. An expansion pack, Marine Fighters, and a "Gold" compilation were released in 1995.
Electronic Arts would re-brand the game as the earliest entry in the Jane's Combat Simulations series, issuing an updated version in 1996 for Microsoft Windows with additional content and a new title, Jane's US Navy Fighters 97. The content from the base game, expansion, and reissue would be combined with Jane's Advanced Tactical Fighters into a unified interface for re-release in 1997 as Jane's Fighters Anthology.
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U.S. Navy Fighters & Marine Fighters (PC/DOS) 1994-95, Electronic Arts
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U.S. Navy Fighters - Mission 50: Sierra Hotel
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Gameplay
The base game features 50 missions of varying types that can be played separately or as part of a campaign with full-motion video mission briefings. The campaign is set aboard the United States aircraft carrier "Ike" during a fictional 1997 war between Russia and Ukraine. The flyable jet fighters during the missions included the F-14B Tomcat, F-18D Hornet, A-7 Corsair, F-22 "Lightning II", and Sukhoi Su-33.[1]
The Marine Fighters expansion added 35 new missions and a second campaign aboard the United States aircraft carrier "Wasp" during a fictional Russian-Japanese conflict over the Kuril Islands. It would feature three additional flyable fighters, the AV-8B Harrier II, FRS Mk 2 Sea Harrier, and Yak-141. The expansion's box art also touted faster frame rates, terrain masking, the addition of turbulence, and a "Tour of Duty" summary screen showing hit percentages, kills, and decorations.
The re-release Jane's US Navy Fighters 97 added an historical campaign taking place in 1972 during Operation Linebacker in the Vietnam War. The contemporaneous planes F-4J Phantom II, F-8 Crusader, MiG-17 Fresco, and MiG-21 Fishbed were added as flyable fighters. Archival footage from ABC News was used as briefings, while aircraft technical references and photos were included from Janes Information Services. [2]
Reception
Publication | Score |
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Next Generation | [1] |
CD Player | 8/10[3] |
Next Generation reviewed the game, rating it four stars out of five, and stated that "despite heavy system requirements, this is a must for every flight freak".[1]
Reviews
- PC Gamer Vol. 2, #2 (February 1995)
- Score #13 (Jan 1995) - Czech magazine
- Computer Gaming World (Feb, 1995)
- PC Gamer (Feb, 1995)
- PC Games - Jan, 1995
References
- ^ a b c "Finals". Next Generation. No. 3. Imagine Media. March 1995. p. 94.
- ^ "Cover packaging from Jane's Combat Simulations: USNF'97 - U.S. Navy Fighters (1996)". MobyGames. Retrieved 18 March 2024.
- ^ "U.S. Navy Fighters Review". CD Player (in German). January 1996. Retrieved April 15, 2022.