Advanced Tactical Fighter
Pelit was a Finnish-language (bi)annual book series published from 1987 to 1991 containing gaming-related articles, tips and most importantly game reviews. Here you can find all the reviews from the books. The reviews were originally written in Finnish; the English versions are translations of the Finnish originals.
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1991 SyksyAdvanced Tactical Fighter
1988Kuka muistaa vielä klassisen lentosimulaattorin nimeltä Fighter Pilot? Se oli buginen, eikä niin kaunis katsellakaan, mutta kummasti sitäkin pelasi parempien puutteessa. Digital Integration oli yhtiö FP:n takana. Oltuaan vuosia hakoteillä julkaisemalla esimerkiksi Tomahawkin, TT Racerin ja Bobsleighin on DI nyt palannut juurilleen julkaisemalla Advanced Tactical Fighterin.
Mutta eipä ole DI paljon oppinut vuosien varrella. Tomahawk haastoi Gunshipin taisteluun helikopterisimulaattorien herruudesta ja hävisi katkerasti, ja nyt ATF kalistelee kalpaansa Stealth Fighterin kanssa aiheenaan lähitulevaisuuden hävittäjälentokoneet. Puolen tunnin koepelaamisen jälkeen lopputulos on selvä : päihin tulee taas ja kirkkaasti.
Grafiikka on kohtalaisen siedettävää, onhan vektorigrafiikalla muodostettu maisema aina kehumisen arvoinen. Ongelmaksi muodostuu yleensä nopeus, mutta ATF selviää siitäkin hyvin. Homma klikkaakin sitten pelattavuudessa, sitä ei ATF:ssä ole pätkääkään. Joystickin ja näppäimistön kanssa mesoaminen vie pelistä kaiken potkun, ja kun äänetkin ovat tälläisille peleille tyypillisiä kohinoita, ei ATF jaksa kiinnostaa muutamaa peliä kauempaa.
1988Who still remembers a classic flight simulator called Fighter Pilot? It was buggy and not much to look at either, but funnily enough people played even that, for want of anything better. Digital Integration was the company behind FP. After years of wandering down the wrong path, putting out the likes of Tomahawk, TT Racer and Bobsleigh, DI has now returned to its roots by releasing Advanced Tactical Fighter.
But DI hasn't learned much over the years. Tomahawk challenged Gunship to a battle for supremacy among helicopter simulators and lost bitterly, and now ATF is crossing swords with Stealth Fighter, the subject this time being the fighter planes of the near future. After half an hour of test play the outcome is clear: another thrashing, and a decisive one.
The graphics are fairly tolerable; after all, a landscape built out of vector graphics is always worth praising. Speed is usually where the trouble lies, but ATF copes well with that too. Where it misfires, then, is playability - ATF hasn't got a scrap of it. Fumbling about with the joystick and the keyboard takes all the kick out of the game, and since the sound is the usual hissing typical of games like this, ATF can't hold your interest for more than a few goes.
