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Not that fun...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: June 01, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is just not that fun. I go in on hard and the game is still easy. On top of that, you have to fly in specified war zones. If you leave? Game over... Get a real flight game for like the computer because this game is stupid. On top of that, this game has some nice graphics, but that is only in the clouds. Everything else is way too boring. Another thing, the models on the planes are a little too big because sometimes you can hit your tail on the ground and not even really touch it.

Top Crap

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 6
Date: September 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This is one of the worst games ever made. I remember the old NES version and if you played that today, it would be about 20 times better. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY ON THIS CRAP!

Seriously, there are tons of games so much better than this it's ridiculous.

Top gun

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 14
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

this game stinks bad graphics bad controls bad everything. Listen to me don't get it

SOO HARD

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 3
Date: April 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game is sooooo bad the plane is slow and sooo un realistic the game its self is not realistic. The game is soooo Dumb and boring and hard sooooooooo hard. NOW FOR THE GOOD STUFF 36 different missions set over 3 distinct period of time. and master the navys top5 plans. and thats pretty much it.

not horrible

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 20, 2006
Author: Amazon User

caetainly not great though. Everything seems way out of proportion in this game. The aircraft all move incredibly slow. There no sense of speed whatsoever. the scall of the vehicles is so out of whack it almost makes me want to quit playing in disgust. Tanks about about a fifth of the size of an F-15, let alone trucks. Hell, apparently f-15's are even bigger than battleships! But don't worry, battleship can also be destroyed easily with bullets. the graphics are a little better than one would find in a nintendo 64 version also. If there's any saving grace to this game it's that it is TH EONLY flight sim game on game cube. It is kind of fun to try to spot a small group of bombers in the clouds over a city too, but that's about it.

An okay game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 19
Date: July 08, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Top Gun: Combat Zones is a game that, on the back cover, claims to allow you to master the Navy's top 5 planes, which I disagree with. First, four of the planes available aren't in the Navy. The MV-22 and AV-8 are Marine aircraft. The F-22 Raptor is Air Force, and the YF-23 lost the contract to the F-22, and isn't in any branch of the military. Second, This game only seems to focus on fighter/attack roles. Combat Zones failed horribly in capturing different aspects of Naval aviation. A good selection of Navy aircraft would probably include the F-14D, F/A-18C, E-2C Hawkeye, S-3B Viking, EA-6B Prowler, HH-60H Seahawk, and P-3C Orion. This would've allowed mission variety, including air to air combat, special forces insertion, anti-surface and anti-sub roles, AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System), and the ever-popular air-to-air combat. But, unfortuneately, the designers made a game that gets old after a while because the only thing different in each mission is the scenery.
I loved the control setup for this game, though. That is, I loved the Expert controls. Expert controls allow you to control the airplanes with realistic three-axis movement (pitch, roll, and yaw). One big flaw, though, was throttle controls. The throttle controls really stunk.
While the control setup was near-perfect, the way the aircraft handled was very unrealistic. I mean, paint dries faster than the time it takes for you to roll completely around one time. Another complaint I have is that you can't really dive inless you roll on your back and pull up. Nothing like real aircraft.
Sound effects were okay, although the explosions sound muted. My favorite sound in this game was your 20mm cannon. The gun in the game almost sounds like the gun in real life (believe me, the real life guns sound a lot different than in the movies.
I did appreciate the graphics. The planes were very detailed, right down to the markings. Everything was in the right spot.
One thing is, I like to play flight sims from a cockpit view that actually looks like a cockpit, and I also like to be able to take off and land. This game didn't have any of that. Half the challenge of flying is taking off and landing, especially for a Navy pilot. IT's been said over and over that it is incredibly unnerving to have to land a 50,000 pound jet on a floating airfield moving away at 30 knots, no matter how experienced you are. This game failed terribly in even giving you an inkling of what flying in the Navy feels like. Anyone can just slap together a "fly in and blow everything up" game. Tsk, tsk.
Overall, this was an okay game. You have to give it a lot of credit because it is the only semi-realistic flight sim for GameCube (hint, hint, Nintendo bigwigs), but I really felt that it didn't do naval aviators justice.
Only buy it if you really truly want a flight sim for GameCube. Otherwise, rent it or wait for a realistic sim to come out.

Nick-seasoned gamer

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 11
Date: January 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I tell ya, this was one sweet game, but waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy too easy. The controls are great and graphics are superb, but it almost seemed that the further i got into the game, the easier it got and before I knew it, I beat the game. And another bad part is there is no multipleyer (which they could have easily made for it) and hardly andy replay value. There are some bonus planes to unlock, so that should take you a little longer, but like I said, it was tooooo easy. I strongly suggest renting, not buying this game

Pretty Good

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 4
Date: November 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is pretty good. It is very realistic but it is really hard. This game doesn't have multiplayer either which dissapoints me.

This is gonna rock!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 16 / 27
Date: July 07, 2002
Author: Amazon User

As soon as I saw Top Gun: Combat Zones I thought to myself "I have to get it". I used to enjoy playing the Top Gun game for the original NES, and this game looks fifty times more fun. You can fly eight different planes, from the classic F-14 Tomcat to the exotic V-22 Osprey, to the old-but-true F-4 Phantom. You can fly in various campaigns from the Arctic from the Gulf (you know which one) to South East Asia. Unfortunately, this game has no two-player mode as far as I could find. Half the fun of combat flight games is dogfighting human opponents (Incase you were wondering, the other half is a mixture of good graphics and fun gameplay). If it were not for this minor fault, I would've rated it five stars. Otherwise, it looks like this game is gonna ROCK! Definitely something gamers should buy.

Best Shoter Game of The Season

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 1
Date: April 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Tough Game! One of the best games I've played since Perfect Dark. Instead of using one of the golden guns from 007, this game uses many highly devastating explosives. The graphics are some of the best I've seen for the first person shooter. I recommend this game to all who love Perfect Dark or 007!

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