- Pilot three different variants of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
- Shoot a variety of air-to-air missiles like the AIM-120 AMRAAM and AIM-9 Sidewinder.
- Simulate an entire war with the most advanced and truly dynamic campaign engine ever made for your PC.
- Participate in cooperative or adversarial multi-player flight over a LAN or internet.
- Bomb damage may or may not be repaired, depending on enemy resources and command.
Product Description
The legend returns! Falcon 4.0: Allied Force is the most comprehensive and powerful combat flight simulator ever made for non-military use. It’s just like sitting in the real cockpit. Features incredible attention to accuracy and simulation fidelity. Enhanced with new features and a new theater of operations covering the Balkans and Korean Peninsula…. More >>
As a pilot and a computer aircraft simulation nut, I bought this eagerly.
What a waste of money!
Unless you are prepared to spend 3-4 months or more learning this very complex game, forget it!
Just the radar takes 30 pages of the manual!
The manual is in PDF format, & is over 700 pages long. To print this out on a color printer will cost about $175 at 22 cents a page. It is also impossible to print a legible keyboard layout.
Give this one a miss, and try Pacific Fighters or IL-2.
Didn’t anyone learn from Jane’s F-15 ; this was a great classic, and has never been equalled. It took a week to learn.
Rating: 1 / 5
Pkg#: 802 Callsign: Rapier Type Msn: Sweep T/O:
0545 TOS/TOT: 0630 Land: 0820
Target: Ivangrad-Mostar
Objectives: OCA Sweep. Prevent strike package from engaging A2A
Name: Ordnance Load: Target:
Rapier 10 512 20mm PGU-28, 2x AIM-120B, 4x AIM-120C, 2x 300 gal DT, ALQ-131 OCA Sweep
Rapier 11 512 20mm PGU-28, 2x AIM-120B, 4x AIM-120C, 2x 300 gal DT, ALQ-131 OCA Sweep
Rapier 12 512 20mm PGU-28, 2x AIM-120B, 4x AIM-120C, 2x 300 gal DT, ALQ-131 OCA Sweep
Rapier 13 512 20mm PGU-28, 2x AIM-120B, 4x AIM-120C, 2x 300 gal DT, ALQ-131 OCA Sweep
C/S: Type Msn: #/Type A/C: TOT: Target:
Sting CAS F/A-18 Dubrovnik
Hornet OCA F/A-18 Podgorica
Snake CAS F-16 Tivat
Focus Alpha EW E-3 N/A
Threat Analysis:
MIG-21Mbis, MIG-23 & MIG-29 in a/o with A-50 support. SA-10 batteries around Sarajevo and Sjenica. SA-6 and SA-11 expected below FL200.
ROE: At will
Alternate Airfield: Amendola, Italy TACAN Ch: 054X
SAR Ch: 102A
AAR Follows:
The Rapier flight departed Amendola and linked up with the F/A-18 strike group. We reached the push point about 60 miles west of Tivat and Focus Alpha called out inbounds out of Mostar. #1 and #2 split north west and each launched a AIM-120B with 2x MIG-29s confirmed. Myself in the #3 position continued till feet dry between Dubrovnik and Tivat. The RWR would flash up with high altitude AA radars and search radars painting fairly regularly. Focus Alpha directed myself and #4 toward Ivangrad and a pair of MIG-21Mbis’s showed. I fired inside of 15 miles with a 120B, #4 was late and the 120B went maddog as soon as it left the rails. But not before the MIG-21 got an R-60 off. It went wide but #4 still took shrapnel damage and bugged out west. Both MIG-21s had chutes.
Sting, Hornet and Snake called goal post at this time and reported high concentrations of ZSU-23 and SA-9 activity. 2 Hornets were damaged by AA and Snake had a near miss by an SA-7. Below me an SA-10 lit up, but much to my surprise and relief the missiles went west toward the strike package and ignored my flight completely. That didn’t last long – an SA-6 went active about 15 west of Ivangrad. At 25K, the music was on and selected zone 5 west – occasionally beaming the radar to break the lock. I observed 4 missiles come through the clouds, but the launch warning continued long past those initial sightings. I continued to blow west for the coast when the RWR finally stopped yelling. Still, with my head on a swivel I was a bit paranoid. SA’s don’t stop tracking you unless they have to – and usually when they have a friendly in the area. It didn’t take long, Focus called a bogie to my right side at 15 miles, which turned out to be a MIG-21Mbis by the radar. Turning toward I was slow at getting the F-16 radar into ACM mode. He was at 8 miles about 30 right of my nose when I saw the puff’s of smoke from the 3 R-60′s that left the rails. No choice now but to continue the turn and kick out the flares. The nose was almost dead on, I might’ve been too close for an AIM-120C shot, but pulled anyway. It went maddog the moment it left the rail and impacted just forward of the empenage. The R-60s reached their gimbal limits and couldnt cut the corner, this time – luckily for me. I reached the coast at about M1.5 having stripped most of my stores except the 2 remaining 120′s and the ECM pod on the center. Focus Alpha gave a steer toward Palese Macchie but elected to goto Amendola with the rest of my flight. I never did hear a peep from the A-50 AWACS in the area – that was disconcerting.
Rating: 5 / 5
Falcon 4.0 seems to be less responsive than say FA/18 Korea or MiG 29. By this I mean, the responsiveness of the controls in Falcon 4.0 just doesn’t compare to these other flight sims. In MiG 29, when you bank left, you bank left. The response is immediate. In Falcon 4.0, the response is sluggish. Perhaps this is a configuration issue, but out of the box, this is the results that I saw. The upside is that the game provides all of the realism, all of the bells and whistles, that you would expect.
Rating: 3 / 5
I am a big fan of Falcon 4, and was excited by F4AF, but it has been a big dissapointment. Lead pursuit talks about testing and quality assurance so how did the game get released with the radar mode getting stuck in ACM. This is a very obvious bug and should never have went out the door that way. Another thing is the lack of common sense. They have put so much stuff around an airbase the the fps drops to 5 or less. How can you take off or land with that kind of fps. I have read on the internet that other pilots with superior computers to mine that they also have this problem. I would rather have less things to look at and have a high fps rather than many things to look at and a low fps. This is a problem in my book; this shows that the F4AF team is more interested in bells and whistles than practical matters. I just wish that they would put high fps as a priority rather than the bells and whistles. Another complaint is changing key mappings, but this is not a disaster. A real big complaint is the manual. More or less just a copy of the original F4 manual which is OK, but they got lazy on the manual and left many, many holes in it regarding new features added to the sim (not a game). For example, how the heck do you get TFR (terrain following radar) to work. Do I need a special radar pod or what? Is it even implemented in the game? Why does it say OFF and I can’t turn it on. Spent hours trying to figure it out. It might be just that I don’t know how to do it, but I have read the manual over and over about this and it is no help. Another thing is the manual (pdf) is protected by password. I can’t make notes by copying and pasting because the pdf won’t let you. Is there a reason for this? Heck the disk is not copy protected so what is the point in securing the manual pdf? I do like it that the disk is not copy protected. I am sure that real virtual pilots like me will pay the money for the disk; I want to support those programmers for this project. No stupid numbers to type in to install it and no activation. I will NEVER EVER buy activated software. (Don’t p_ss down my back and tell me it’s raining.) Anyway, I am used to fighting F4 to get it running and F4AF will also be a fight too (it runs but manual has holes). Overall the game is good except it was released a bit early. I admit that I have not had the game that long, but first impressions are lasting impressions. But being the ‘jet nut’ that I am, I will never give up on it.
Rating: 1 / 5
Maybe it would help if I played this game for more than two hours. But usually if after two hours I’m still crashing or getting my ass kicked I quit. Really high learning curve. I wouldn’t recommened it unless you can already fly an F16.
Rating: 1 / 5