Good game from a great lineage of sims. – Strike Fighters (Pro) Review

The folks at Third Wire have great history of producing excellent survey sims (one's that give you the "feel" of being there without needing a pilot's license). The Strike Fighters series for the PC are great and now their series for the Tablets bring the same feel to IOS systems. This is not a hardcore flight sim, nor is it meant to be. It's meant for jumping in, getting into a quick dogfight and getting out. It's great for a guy like me that likes to take his kid to an air show or air museum and share the great history of warplanes with his kid. This sim gives you one more way to touch that history. In my opinion there are a couple of places for improvement. First, there should be a bonus for making it to the end of the timer without getting shot down. Right now after exhausting your weapons it is easier to get shot down than evade your enemies...since there is no incentive for survival you just want to jump back in and start again. I would suggest that if you can survive to the end of the timer you get 100 points for every minute that was on the timer. For example if you survive to the end of a 2:30 timer, you should get 250 points. Second, it would be nice to have some different skins instead of minor variants that essentially look the same from the same country of origin. We get a little of that with some of the cool British and German skins, but why not an Indian Mig 29, an Iranian F-14, or an Israeli F-15? Heck, there are now F-16's with Iraqi paint schemes...how crazy would that be? Third, some cockpits would be nice for those of us that like to feel inside the plane. No need for accurate true to life interactive cockpits. Some generic static cockpits for each era would be fine. For example a generic cockpit for all US missile equipped fighters from the Vietnam War era would be fine. A generic light blue Soviet era cockpit could cover most of the Migs from the 21 through the the 25. A generic two MFD cockpit for all the fifth generation fighters would do just fine. You could probably cover all the planes in the game with 6-8 generic cockpits. Having said all of that, those are minor issues. This is a great game for fans of the old survey PC sims like the Jane's series. Right now the tablets can't do what the PC's can do, so Strike Fighters keeps the elements tablets can do and scraps the stuff that they can't. Totally worth the purchase.
Review by EddieNash1981 on Strike Fighters (Pro).