Lock On: Modern Air Combat
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Lock On: Modern Air Combat is a popular modern fighter simulation developed by Eagle Dynamics and published by Ubisoft that is widely regarded as one of the best simulators in its class. It contains 8 flyable aircraft and over 30 AI controlled planes. In the game you can take either fighter jets up and use very realistic tactics and radar to find enemies, or fly ground attack jets and attack tanks and buildings. The game models AWACS (also known as AEW&C) and in air refueling. The game has over 180,000 buildings, over 50,000,000 trees, 21 cities, 1,700 towns, 500 bridges, 18 airfields, and 8 naval bases in the Black Sea region modeled. You can fly as either Russia, USA, or some other countries such as Germany and Ukraine. The 8 flyable aircraft are MiG-29A, MiG-29S, Su-27, Su-33, Su-25, MiG-29G (a German MiG-29 variant with a native board-computer), F-15C, and A-10A. A full mission editor is included to allow you to make missions of the same quality as the 20 missions included with the game. You also can make campaigns of the same quality as the four included.
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[edit] Disadvantages
The initial version of the game was flawed with many 'bugs'. A patch for the original game was released (v1.02), however not all the flaws were removed. The latest version (of Lock On: Flaming Cliffs) is V1.12a. This version is very stable, with most of the 'bugs' having been corrected. While V1.02 of the original game is not quite as stable as the add-on version, the community has designed user-created corrections for the game, or 'tweaks', which allow the game to run in a smoother manner.
Lock On: Flaming Cliffs, and patch 1.12a contain a copy protection known as Starforce. This copy protection has been reported by many users to cause disruptions of CD/DVD-R/W drives and software.
[edit] Upgrades
The developer of the game, Eagle Dynamics, has released an add-on version 1.1 (named Lock On: Flaming Cliffs) which corrects flaws in the original game and adds another flyable aircraft, the Su-25T. Some upgrades to the games missile modeling are also included, as is an Advanced Flight Model (AFM) for the Su-25T. A patch to Flaming Cliffs was released, correcting minor coding errors and bringing the final game version to 1.12a.
The next Add-on for Lock On is called Black Shark. The publisher has confirmed the add-on will contain the Kamov Ka-50 helicopter as a flyable aircraft. Lock On: Black Shark will also contain many more updates to Flaming Cliffs, though they have not been verified by Eagle Dynamics. The release date for Black Shark was scheduled for the Fall of 2006 according to the Lock On website. Eagle Dynamics has not commented on why the game had missed it's scheduled release time-frame.
