Flanker 2.5 (Jewel Case)

by Ubisoft

Product Details

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• ASIN: B00005YX85
• Product Dimensions: 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches ; 3.2 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: February 12, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (11 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,279 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Flanker 2.5 builds on the highly successful and critically acclaimed Flanker line of products. Using previously classified Russian satellite imagery and a new 3D graphics engine, Flanker 2.0 provided photo-realistic terrain, improved flight dynamics, a new 3D sound system, and accurate damage modeling create a true combat experience. Flanker 2.5 builds on the Flanker legacy, incorporating the stunning graphics and streamlined gameplay of Flanker 2.0, and adding new features only available in the sought after Version 2.5 Upgrade.

New users will be delighted by the intuitive menu system, and all players can hone their pilot skills using a suite of detailed training missions, complete with an in-cockpit flight instructor. Experienced flight simulation users will enjoy the mission editor's detailed and powerful capabilities that allow users to create customized missions that can be flown or shared with other users.

Featuring more than 100 aircraft, ships, air defense systems, and ground vehicles, including the Su-27, Su-33, and MiG-29K, which may be flown by the user, Flanker 2.5 allows you to fully experience the true power of modern air combat. Flanker 2.5 also features:

• A new 3D graphics engine using full texture-mapped terrain
• A mission editor allowing the user to create realistic combat scenarios
• Highly detailed 3D ships, aircraft and ground vehicles
• A new 3D sound system with shift and Doppler effects
• Multiplayer - head-to-head or cooperative missions via LAN or over the Internet
• Carrier Operations with the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetzov
• Aerial refueling while flying the carrier-based Su-33 and MiG-29K, perhaps one of the greatest challenges of modern combat aviation

Product Description

This game features stunning graphics & streamlined playability, without compromising the technical excellence of its famous predecessor! Falcons Beware: There's a New Bird of Prey on Your Tail.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Jet simulator Ever, August 13, 2003

By 

R. Subramanian (San Antonio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flanker 2.5 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I am from India and IAF inducted a bunch of SU-30 MKIs in it's airforce. I wanted to get a feel for this fighter and bought the flanker 2.5 . I also own Microsoft CFS2 , CFS3 ( dont waste your money on this ) , IL2( money well spent ) , Ka-52 just to name a few.

Flanker 2.5 is not a game. It is a simulator. So there are no points flashing after you complete a mission successfully. I have been playing it for an year now and even now it keeps me intrested. There is a lot to learn. You need to learn about the plane , your enemy plane , Different missiles and their envelopes , radar range , when to track , when not to track, how to refuel, when to fire a missile and a whole lot more.

So , if you want a game that you can master in a couple of weeks , this is not the one. If you are looking fo some simulator that will teach you about different weapons systems, tactics and more importantly how hard it is to be a real fighter pilot , this is a keeper.

The graphics are excellent and very light on resources considering the vintage of the game.It is comparable to Microsoft CFS3 in the graphics quality but with 1/3 the resource usage.

Buy it if you are a serious aero or sim enthusiast...you will LOVE IT.

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Not a Game...A Simulator!!, July 18, 2005

By 

Wayne Manigold "Techasaures" (Colorado, USA) - See all my reviews
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= Fun:4.0 out of 5 stars 

This review is from: Flanker 2.5 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I have worked for two different companies that designed and implimented real flight simulators. One of these was the F-16 (Link) and the other was the

F/A-18 (Hughes) so I can say with some authority that this simulator has one of the very best flight-models that I've ever experianced, bar none. I

noticed a comment by one individual who stated that "the graphics are bad" (or something like that) and I have to agree...the graphics, especially on a

slower systems, with all the "options" set to either "medium" or "low" (for example) are not "LOMAC" quality to be sure. However, the folks who wrote the engine for this simulator were not setting out to make a "pretty" game at all, but rather they set-out to design a true flight simulator based on the aircraft of their country of origin - the SU-27 (and its variants) designed and built on the former USSR: they excelled in this department.

Having been "up" in both Falcon's and Hornet's, I can honestly say I do know a good flight model when I run across one. However, the SU series of fighters and thier flight-envelope are much different than that of our (the United States) birds and, in many ways are much better. Not having flown a MiG or and SU does not qualify me to judge the accuracy of this FM but, after going through some recent flight data on the SU/MKI series (a plane that even the United States should consider purchasing because it is THAT good IMHO!!) and then flying a similar airframe in Flanker 2.5, I can say that its flight envelope acts very much like the "real McCoy" i.e, when you reach Corner Speed and start to time it, you should wind-up at a certain degree away from your original position within a given time-frame - and that is one of the things you get with this sim: realism of the aircraft.

There is an obvious tradeoff between the graphics here, and the realism of the aircraft and SSI chose the later and focused on it instead of the "eye candy". So, if you want both excellent graphics (i.e. buildings, landscape, VERY cool clouds, etc.) then I would purchase Lock On: Modern Air Combat over this sim any day of the week. With "LOMAC" you have one of the finest military sims in the world AND you can fly both American as well as Soviet designs - but there is one caveat that you need to heed: your system, no matter HOW "smokin" you THINK it is, is TOO SLOW for LOMAC, period!!

I digress for a moment. I'm NOT sure about the very latest "Dual-Core" Athlon 64 series and their associated motherboards (i.e. Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe with a Dual-Core, AMD64 4000+ w/ dual 7800 SLI cards, for example) because these are so new that, at least I will assume, even LOMAC won't bring them to their knees...one would hope :(. So with that said: if you have a very new, very FAST system - purchase Lock On: Modern Air Combat. If your system is rather old (6-months is "old" these days I'm afraid :(!!!!), then purchase Flanker 2.5 (their is, also, a "patch" available to bring 2.5 to 2.51 as well) AND, when doing so, IF your REALLY looking into doing the "whole flight-sim thing" then it would be wise to purchase a good HOTAS setup as well (Saitek's X-52, for example) because, this way you can program all of your distracting key-strokes into the HOTAS and never take your eyes off the enemy or the ground!

YET ANOTHER good choice that is somewhere in-between Flanker and LOMAC would be "Falcon 4.0" and there are a TON of free add-ons for this sim as well!!! Graphics are good and the flight model (after updates) is second to none AND it don't require as much "horsepower" to run it either!!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars IMPRESSED!..., March 29, 2003

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T. Patterson "ls1transamman350" (West Virginia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Flanker 2.5 (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I just got this game (March 2003).. It's a little old, but WOW!! I usually don't even like flight simulators. I just decided to try this one out for kicks ... ,and now I'm hooked!... I just upgraded to the v2.51 patch from v2.5 -- they did a lot of bug fixes in 2.51! The only problem with 2.51 is that the training missions don't work. So learn to play v2.5 with the training missions and then upgrade to 2.51. Anyway, this is a SUPERB flight sim! I am running it on an Athlon 1ghz w/ 768megs of ram, a Voodoo5, and a Logitech Wingman f/fback joystick. The graphics are wonderful, the flight model is the best I have experienced, and it is the most fun flight simulator I have played! There's a lot of keys and functions to learn because it is so realistic, but they have good training missions and an excellent 300+ page manual! (manual is installed with the game in .PDF format) The only three problems with the game are that manual landings are next to impossible, the only jets you can fly are the SU-27 and SU-33, and they don't have enough missions!! However, they do include a mission editor with the game so you can make your own or download ones that other people have made! I haven't tried the multiplayer support yet, but I hear that the v2.51 patch has fixed all kinds of problems with it. I work a full time job, and still have managed to learn most of the features in the game in a couple weeks time, though I still have a ways to go before I master it!! BUY THIS GAME!... It will be the best [money] you have ever spent! Months and months of enjoyment!...