F/A 18: Operation Iraqi Freedom

List Price: $29.99 Discount Price: $34.99

Features:

• Jump into the cockpit of an F/A-18 Hornet fighter plane
• Thousands of square miles of stunning satellite image-based terrain
• Same environment that coalition fighter pilots navigated during Operation Iraqi Freedom
• Fly CAP, SEAD, CAS/DAS, and Escort missions
• Powerful and intuitive Mission Editor

Accessories:
PC Gamer (1-year)	Games for Windows: The Official Magazine

Customer Reviews:

One of the best F/A-18 Hornet sims [Posted on 2005-06-05]
The other negative reviewers for this game would find their problems solved if they just downloaded the v1.01 patch from graphsim.com. I've run this sim on several different systems, and the patch solves all the conflicts I've run into.

Pro: Currently, this is the only combat flight sim with photo-realistic scenery based on real-world satelite imagery. This adds a whole new dimension to combat flight-simming, and is the reason for the long installation times. In my opinion, it is well worth the wait.

Pro: GraphSim's F/A-18 series continues to be the most realistic Hornet sim available. The flight modelling is impeccable, the weapons systems very realistic. You can easily adjust the difficulty level from simple arcade-style (where you only use a few keystrokes to operate all the systems) to fully realistic (which uses the entire keyboard to operate almost everything on the actual aircraft).

Pro/Con: Opinions vary on the new 3D cockpit. Some folks still prefer the older style 2D cockpit, but GraphSim has done an admirable job in integrating photo-realistic detail from their 2D cockpit into their new 3D cockpit. In-cockpit motion simulation is a new and fascinating touch as the pilot gets jostled around when jinking the aircraft.

Cons: The users manual is minimal and seems to assume you're familiar with the previous GraphSim Hornet sims. Air Traffic Control (ATC) is still very minimal and is starting to show it's age. But it gets the job done. And there is something to be said for its simplicity.

Conclusion: All-in-all a great Hornet sim. The full-time 3D cockpit is not for everyone, but the photo-realistic scenery makes this sim stand out on its own accord.

Dont buy it. [Posted on 2007-02-01]
Dont buy this game regardless of the reviews read,....unless of course, giving away money is your kind of thing.

F/A 18 Hornet flight simulator in the war in Iraqi, [Posted on 2007-02-18]
This is the Newest of MY flight simulators in my collection and by Far one of the Best, in F/A18 Operation Iraqi Freedom you Fly real missions that our pilots in Iraq flew during the beginning of the war, the Graphics in this game are very real and HIgh Quality, i run A invidia 512MB video card and it runs great with it however it's requirments are much lower, the game gives you the feel of being in the cockpit of the F/A18 Hornet and you have Dozens of Missions taking off from a Aircraft Carriers and Landing on the Pitching Deck At sea after a complete mission or you can return to the Carrier upon running out of weapons and fuel you can Land taxi to the Big F on deck stop and refuel and reload ammo and taxi to catapult and take off and return to combat, you have smart missles and many types of air to ground Bombs and Missles from smart to free fall,
included are ammrams,aims,harms,mavricks,missles and laser guided Bombs or inferred targetting,the realisom is so good you think you our with our soldiers in Iraqi, this is the only game out i know of that has this new of gaming in a ongoing War, and you get to fight it With all the realisom and weapons and tactics that the real pilots have at thier disposel, also on disk is a complete 131 page manual giving you flight instructions, how to use each and every weapon on the F/A18 Hornet and fighter tatics and also the Complete Controls of the game and how to program your Joystick and usage of peddles if available, here you are given the opritunity to fly the ultimate fighter with all the realisom in combat and flight simulator, all in one cd game, by Graphsim entertainment

recommend you dont miss out on the newest and best of flight simulators to date, i give this game 5 STARS overall,

jimmy sundance58

Hornet Realism [Posted on 2007-02-26]
You're the pilot in the cockpit of America's best fighter, the F/A 18 Hornet over real satellite maps of the Iraqui airspace. To me, the beauty of this game is more than it's faithfulness to the aerodynamics and physics of the Hornet, its armament, or catching the wires on the carrier deck, but the fact that missions are taking place as i write this review. I've played graphsims' FA/18 games thru Korea and their detail to attention to what's needed to complete a mission then giving you the chance to experience it. Online you can join up with squadrons of aircraft and nail your objectives. Worth buying.

Mission Editor is pretty cool. [Posted on 2008-01-07]
All missions under the Missions directory can be modified and saved to a new name or over the top, I chose new names to keep the tough missions in there for future hair raising frustrations. SU27 in aggressive are good way to end up ejecting pretty quick. In XP the game runs pretty good, will say it seems if you are ready to win, it will figure a way to not let you win. Windows Error using Enemy view during multi sortes F10. Otherwise awesome, will say another con is FLIR to A/G handoff is cumbersome but the 4X time warping offsets it. Also no Air refueling, one of the best carrier landing programs I've played so far. Also changing a store of weapons to add or chg during a mission would have been a great addition. Thumbs up otherwise.

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