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Lock On Modern Air Combat

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

If you have the patience to get over the quirks especially if you own a Saitek x-52, this game is one of the best out there like MS Flight Simulator X.

Flight-Sim Enthusiasts Rejoice

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 27, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I have been searching for the most realistic Flight Simulator game out there for about two years now. I have tried Microsoft Flight Simulator X and been disappointed by its lack of combat. I have tried a few WWII flight sims, but those are not quite what I was looking for. The Ace Combat series was the only game that I found which had jets shooting down jets, yet their arcade-style and unrealistic quantities of ammo let me down.

Lock-On: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC) is the most realistic jet flight simulator that I could find, and it came at an incredible price. There are only 6 planes available to fly (technically 8 or 9, but that's because there are different country variations of the Mig-29) so that's an annoyance, but it will take you just about a month and a half or longer to perfect flying just one of these planes.

The impossibility of mid-air refueling, (i.e. it's quite challenging)the struggle of carrier landings, and the ever-prominent challenge of choosing the right radar for your target all make this game one of the most realistic flight sims out there.

I encourage this game for anyone who enjoys the challenge of realistic flight-simulation.

Final statement
the campaigns are a tad short (about 7-10 missions), but you can make your own. Having only 2 US planes is an annoyance (A-10 and F-15) along with only 1 carrier plane (SU-33), but I guess can live with that. The online community is quite small, too, (16 players online at this moment, 1 PM) but there is almost always someone there. Finally, if this gets boring you can order LOMAC Flaming Cliffs the successor, or LOMAC Gold which has both the original and Flaming Cliffs for about $20.

Poorly made, terrible controls,

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 15, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Lock On: Modern Air Combat (LOMAC) is easily the worst combat sim made in the past 10 years, with awful controls, bad graphics and a rushed release it is the absolute epitome of lazy game design on a budget. You're much better off buy Wings Over Europe or any other Thirdwire sim as they have a better modding community and a very good mission designer/campaign system.

...IF YOU GET IT TO WORK, IT'S GREAT

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 4
Date: January 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

IT HAS SOME PROBLEMS TO GET IT TO RUN PROPERLY...START AT THE LOW DEFAULT SETTINGS FOR GRAPHICS. EVEN THEN I ONLY GOT IT TO RUN ON FAST BATTLE PLANNER AND TRAINING...BUT BELEIVE ME, IT IS AS REAL AS IT CAN GET. DEFINITELY WORTH THE $ 39. HOPE UBISOFT GET THE PATCHES OUT FAST.

Lots to learn

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 5
Date: February 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I'm neither a flightsim novice nor a pilot. I won't try to insult those who don't like LOMAC. This sim isn't for everyone. The documentation is lacking, and the learning curve is high. It helps to have a modern machine to run it. There is enough feedback on the web to teach you how to overcome some of the out-of-the-box problems (blue screen of death). Have patience and do the training missions, and you'll learn more each time you fly. If you don't have patience, and if you haven't the ability to learn complex 'games' then don't buy LOMAC. You'd be wasting your money. But if you're relatively smart and willing to learn, go for it! You'll be glad you did...

purchased but never played

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 17
Date: May 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game because all my friends were telling me it was a great game. I purchased it and 2 days after it arrived I threw it in the trash.
I assume it is a very good game.

this is just a review of their ftp site

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 29
Date: October 26, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I haven't finished downloading this game yet but their FTP site is really slow. And can only handle 325 connections. Thus the link from the web site to download it didn't work, I had to go and get it the old way G.I. Joe Style. And even now I'm only getting about 30-40K down stream. [GROAN] However the screen shots look really cool.

best game ever ,with a few flaws

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: February 07, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I am an serious and experianced fligth simmer.I have every simulaer and top of the line $100+ joysticks. I found this under a PC PILOT MAGAZENE ****star revue that lead me to buying this amazing sim.
If you take the time to do the tutorials this game is aweosme, with realilistic AI and hundres of modes. But it has one major flaw that led me to e-baying it: you have to memorise tons of keyboard combinations to change to a difrent gun, from AIR TO AIR ,AIR TO GROUNG,CANNONS, ect. rent it of try a frends befor you buy. UNTILL THAN KEEP AWAY!

Waste of Money So Far

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 9
Date: March 09, 2004
Author: Amazon User

I just purchased this garbage game a few days ago, so it has the patch and keycard, but it's a waste of hard drive space. I spent a lot of time configuring the game AND computer, but it still crashes and has more problems than one can imagine. The blue screen of death is common and results in a major reboot of the computer. The manual is useless as well. How anyone can say this game is great is just lucky it works on their system, which is probably 25% of the people who paid for it. Maybe one day this game will work, but it'll be a LONG time from now.

Poorly Designed, many flaws.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 36
Date: April 24, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Lock On: Modern Air Combat is not worth the money and even if it were free, it wouldn't be worth your time. I bought my first FS software to fly the number one freeware aircraft simulator on the Internet - The TR-3B Flying Triangle.

I flew fighters for the Air Force in late Vietnam, specifically the F-111 and am rated commercial also. The TR-3B Flight Simulator for Microsoft's Flight Sim, is based on the writings, lectures, and TV interviews of Edgar Fouche who wrote "Alien Rapture." (See amazon)

Why? This is what the genius who developed it wrote: "For the experienced flight simmer on FS2002 PRO, I have developed this complete exotic amphibian TR-3B package, which is now available as freeware for download. It includes 3 models - the purple Astra, blue Locust and white Hellas - and as an extra 4th model the TR-3X with its own speedy attacker flight dynamics. The package includes TR-3B panel & gauges, noise cancellation sounds, fsuipc and special lights effects.

This TR-3B is a heavy tactical reconnaissance aircraft equipped with a magnetic field disruptor that reduces the weight by 89 percent (it is not the same as anti-gravity, though). It has been created for Microsoft Flight Simulator. All gauges are included.

The TR-3B can float like a speedboat at Mach 1.5 over water, fly like a heavy helicopter, like a bush plane, a business jet, like a military jet and lift like a rocket. Cruise speed is approx Mach 4.7 at FL340 and above, and approx Mach 2 at sea level. Service ceiling approx 69,000 feet ASL. Super stable. FSFREEWARE, SURCLARO, FSPLANET aircraft simulator sites have reported as many as 5000 downloads in one week!
I searched and read many many web pages about his book and the author, Edgar Fouche including; startfinish(put in the dot com.)biz/wise Click on links for Fouche and Flying Triangle. You will find his full presentation, and the download links for the TR-3B. Great Top Secret aircraft simulator which I recommend, and fantastic details on it. So try some of the free aircraft simulators instead of the poorly designed Lock On: Modern Air Combat.

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