EF2000 (computer game)

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EF2000

Developer(s)	Digital Image Design
Publisher(s)	Ocean Software
Engine	Wargen
Release date(s)	1995
Genre(s)	Flight simulation
Mode(s)	Single Player,Multiplayer
Rating(s)	N/A
Platform(s)	DOS for PC
System requirements	For PC Minimum 80486 IBM compatible at 66Mhz,8MB RAM,VESA compliant SVGA graphics card,CDROM,DOS 5.0 or higher
Input	Keyboard,Joystick and Mouse

EF2000 is a video game of the combat flight simulation genre released in December 1995 for DOS on the IBM PC compatible personal computer. It is the sequel to Digital Image Design's earlier software title TFX (computer game). In fact EF2000 runs under the label TFX military.It was released after the introduction of Microsoft Windows 95 but only runs in DOS mode. EF2000 is a combat flight simulator featuring the recent NATO Eurofighter.The simulation had mind boggling groundbreaking graphics when it was introduced featuring terrain that looks amazingly detailed with great looking mountains, fjords, snowfields, sea etc. of the Baltic region featuring countries such as Norway, Sweden, Finland and some parts of Russia. The location was inspired by a scenario described in Red Storm Rising by Tom Clancy. The game was to have included Iceland as part of the theatre but this was lost to concentrate on the scandinavian peninsula. In addition buildings and airfields have a lot of graphics detail as well.The detail was much a vastly graphical improvement of DID's earlier simulation TFX (for DOS on the PC platform). The simulation even supported early Virtual Reality goggles. An interesting part about the simulation is that upon executing the program it plays an Intel Pentium processor video clip theme which will only play if one has a Pentium class or higher PC (it seems to work with AMD processors). EF2000 comes with a huge well illustrated 285 page manual and comes with a paper operational navigation map as well as a quick paper command and control guide. The manual is well written and teaches aerial combat tactics, avionics, ordnance types and systems and includes many other details of the simulation.

1 Gameplay
2 Military aircraft,ground force and naval force types included in EF2000
- 2.1 Air Forces
- 2.2 Ground Forces
3 Naval Forces
4 Later sequels
5 External links

[edit] Gameplay

Gameplay consists of Quick combat,Simulator(free flight mode),Training and Multiplayer and features simplified avionics systems of the Eurofighter. Air refueling is part of this simulation. This simulation is complex in its controls. EF2000 has either a Midi music choice or a CD music choice in the simulation or no music if one so chooses.

[edit] Military aircraft,ground force and naval force types included in EF2000

[edit] Air Forces

NATO	Russian
Sea Harrier FRS-2 F-14 Tomcat F-15 Eagle F-16 Fighting Falcon FA-18 Hornet F-22A JAS 39 Gripen F-117 Stealth fighter Tornado GR7 A-10 Thunderbolt E9 JStars R767 E767 Sentry C-17 Globemaster Hercules C130 EF-111 Raven Helicopters Chinook Cobra AH-1	Su-35 Su-27 Su-33 MiG-29 MiG-21 MiG-27 Su-25 Su-39 Su-34 Tu-22M An-225 A-50 IL-76 Il-78 Tu-16 Helicopters: Mi-24 Hind Mi-26 Halo

[edit] Ground Forces

NATO	Russian
Challenger 2 MBT Warrior IFV M198 M110 howitzer MLRS M163 Rapier SAM Roland Euromissile SAM Patriot Chieftain AVLB No 8 S373	BMP-1 T80MBT D30 M1973(2S3) BM-21 ZSU-23-4 SA-6 SA-11 MTU-20(T55)

[edit] Naval Forces

NATO	Russian	Merchant fleet
Invincible class carrier Type 42 destroyer Hospital ship Type 23 destroyer Vanguard class submarine Nimitz class aircraft carrier	Admiral Kuznetsov class aircraft carrier Kirov class battlecruiser Udaloy class destroyer Neustrashimy class frigate Slava class cruiser Akula class submarine Spy trawler	Large oil tanker Small oil tanker container ship Vehicle ferry trawler

[edit] Later sequels

EF2000 spawned later versions with improvements. These were EF2000 V2.0 for Windows 95 and Super EF2000 with the Tactcom add on additions included for Windows 95 (both work on Windows 98, 98SE and ME too). The already outstanding graphics became boosted again as DID released the "Graphics+"-Patch, which added glide-Support to EF2000, making the graphics a lot smoother. In addition EF2000(or TFX) spawned other later DID simulations such as DID's F22ADF and DID's Total Air War. In 2001 Rage Games Limited put out Eurofighter Typhoon that had much improved graphics from EF2000.It was developed from the makers of EF2000 and has the Digital Image Design label on the box.