Customer Reviews

Heatseeker

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Have been looking for flying fun game. found good one. found this game very fun and exciting to play. Highly Recommend this game**** for anyone who loves flying-like top gun and flying combat missions and everything in between. some hard missions but have made it to the end. unlocking planes is simple. use your differnet modes like rookie or pilot or ace. this unlocks planes and weapons. want a fun flying combat game. buy this you wont be dissapointed. best game I 've ever found!!!
and also you get to land or take-off from an aircraft carrier.

Which is it? An air combat simulator or an arcade game? Unfortunately, the designers couldn't decide. The controls aren't smooth, although you can set up your controller to emulate the controls of another much superior air combat franchise. The visuals during dogfights are very limited, forcing the pilot to rely on a very tiny and inaccurate radar display. The graphics are only mediocre for the PS2.

The story involves (what else?) a fresh, young trainee pilot thrust into combat before he's ready, but who turns out to be a flying prodigy. He's just arrived at his new station, a tropical island that happens to be situated at a natural military flashpoint (sound familiar?). So, the player finds himself/herself racing all over the map taking on wave after wave of arcade style enemies, killing scores of opposing targets at a time. During all this, the pilot's CO, back in the tower, is yelling at him incessantly to either break off and head for a more important combat threat, or simply berating him that he's not killing enemies fast enough. I don't know who the rocket scientist was who decided that this sort of verbal abuse would make the game more exciting, but after 45 minutes of game play I was ready to put it in the trash. Another annoyance is that, after racing across the map at the insistence of your CO to take on a new threat, lining it up in your sights and firing your weapon, a cut scene appears, ruining your opening shot at the new threat and often requiring the player to begin a whole new pass at the target. This happened over and over, so I'm of the opinion that it was designed into the game.

Overall, this could have been a much better game, but it suffers from a lack of originality. If you're crazy about any sort of air combat game, you might enjoy this one. Otherwise, the Ace Combat series is superior in every sense.

Heatseeker for the PS2 has you as a new pilot who thinks he's taking a F22 to a tropical island. Trouble ensues, of course, and soon the fate of the world is on your shoulders.

A key of any flight game is how well the graphics look. You're trying to spin around at top speed, with items flashing by you - you need to be able to spot the enemy, keep track of them visually while you're turning in three dimensions.

You have a behind-the-plane view of the actions which means the plane itself is often blocking your view of enemies. Cut scenes will jump in to interrupt you just as you're lining up your shot. The radar uses a very "fuzzy blob" look to it which is far from helpful. The plane itself - which as mentioned is taking up a large amount of the screen's real estate - looks like it's made out of cardboard with a few spots painted onto it.

The clouds, at least, are pretty - but you can't really judge a plane game based on fluffy clouds in the background :)

The sound has lots of blasting jets, more blasting jets - and lots of screaming. Your contacts are either yelling at you to get moving, yelling at you for not moving quickly enough, yelling at you to help out, or yelling at you for just being there. You'd think every once in a while they'd encourage you on. Often the yelling drowns out other things you're trying to hear.

The flying controls are "pretty brain dead" says one of my testers. It just doesn't offer the level of challenge found in the many other flight games out for the various consoles.

We adore plane combat games. We've played most of them that have been put out. This one just doesn't compare. I could highly recommend three or four other games that you really should play before spending your money on this one.

I didnt like it very much. I like to fly with a cockpit view with the HUD in my face, this game has you flying with a behind the aircraft looking fwd view. the radar is fuzzy.