CCIP
12-04-06, 01:15 PM
Anyone ever played these?
It's a two-part series of 1996/1997 that, at its more basic, is a tactical wargame (and in one limited mode - strategic) - and at higher difficulty levels, about as close as one gets to a 2D, turn-based flight sim :doh:
It seems terribly addictive - a real joy to play. Hard as hell, too - even at simpler difficulty levels, going up with a flight of Hurris against a larger force of Me-109's is as merciless as it should be. The graphics, cartoony though they might be, are actually quite cool.
I recently came across them by accident (yes I realize abandonware is discouraged at subsim; but I was simply too young when snagging a real copy was still realistic) and have enjoyed them quite a lot. In fact I'll even try to trace them down on e-bay somewhere now.
It's a two-part series of 1996/1997 that, at its more basic, is a tactical wargame (and in one limited mode - strategic) - and at higher difficulty levels, about as close as one gets to a 2D, turn-based flight sim :doh:
It seems terribly addictive - a real joy to play. Hard as hell, too - even at simpler difficulty levels, going up with a flight of Hurris against a larger force of Me-109's is as merciless as it should be. The graphics, cartoony though they might be, are actually quite cool.
I recently came across them by accident (yes I realize abandonware is discouraged at subsim; but I was simply too young when snagging a real copy was still realistic) and have enjoyed them quite a lot. In fact I'll even try to trace them down on e-bay somewhere now.