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Now I recently played H.A.W.X 2 which is, quite possibly, the most fun I’ve ever had flying since Descent. Top Gun on the other hand, is the worst flying experience I’ve had by comparison. The dog fighting feels sluggish like you’re flying through molasses. Your plane can take a very large number of direct missile hits before you die or it takes three, it’s all very uneven. Flares seem to be pretty useless and the game keeps playing Danger Zone over and over. Talk about struggling to regain the glory days of old. This game is just about the same quality of the film, if you were to go back and watch it now. The land is really flat and poorly detailed.
Then there are these really cheesy cut scenes which is just shots of the planes and horrible, horrible voice work where all the pilots sound like whiney kids. Plus, the random things that the other pilot says when you’re _Nightime_-_GhostRider_high_over_bridge.jpg)
actually flying, are both redundant and useless. It’s really just irritating to say the least. Luckily, you can skip past the pathetic cut scenes at your leisure which, if you get this game, you will want to do.
The flying also isn’t as much fun for some reason as it is in H.A.W.X. 2 but I can’t put my finger on exactly why. Perhaps it was just the lack of interesting missions since it’s all pretty much the same thing - shoot stationary ground targets, dogfight with other students. It just wasn’t enough to keep my interest.
You do have a wingman command system that gives you some control over them (defend, attack) and they are actually helpful and can destroy targets which is usually something friendly AI can’t manage in many games. But that’s still not enough to make this a really interesting game.
