The graphics on the game are fine except that a lot of the textures are flat and uninteresting. Much of the terrains are sort of mottled messes of colors that you can get far too close to as if you don’t actually have any wings at all attached to your plane. In fact, it’s like you are just a flying camera because your bullets show up only in your reticle and you can do all sorts of proximity things that are in no way realistic.

Aside from the single player campaign, which apes the plot of the original film, there is also a horde mode which is basically just survival. There’s also multiplayer with quick match, create a match and multiplayer leaderboards, etc. For your online profile you get to choose one of four skins: classic, arcade, air show and military for the six planes that are playable and you get to choose a helmet all from the pilots: Stryker, Hammer, Merlin, Wolfman, Slider, Maverick, Cougar. No Ice?

When I went to browse online matches, I found one. A non-ranked deathmatch with three players. Not very inspiring, is it? There are actually five modes: Deathmatch, team deathmatch, Capture the flag, Top Gun and Bombing run, but it seems like no one is interested in playing them.

Overall, I’m extremely unimpressed with this title. It is definitely a candidate for buyers remorse, and I did, when it came out, enjoy the film. This just seems like an aged franchise trying desperately to make one more comeback before getting decommissioned, for what we hope is, forever.