Jetfighter 5

by Global Star Software

Product Features

• Over 30 action-packed, air-to-air and air-to-ground missions
• Stunning 3D graphics; highly detailed, satellite-mapped environments
• 90,000 square miles of flyable satellite-mapped terrain
• 3 flyable Lockheed Martin jets; realistic flight physics and weapon platforms
• Create customizable, single-mission challenges with in-game custom editor

Product Details

• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000C4E7C
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: October 1, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #37,244 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Nobody comes into your backyard and pushes you around. Steel yourself and scramble your wingmen, because there's hardly enough time to blink. A shadowy faction has stolen a fleet of warships and has come knocking on the door of America's West Coast--and they're not selling Girl Guides cookies. Now, only you and a handful of green rookies stand between this onslaught of evil and the free world as we know it.

You don't have much time. Already, a massive carrier lurks off the coast, stacked with MIG-42s and MIG-44s. Pre-emptive strikes have already begun, so take a deep breath. It's going to take guts, skill, and an arsenal of Maverick and Sidewinder missiles to survive this seemingly unstoppable horde of invading air and ground forces.

Take to the skies in the F-16 Fighting Falcom, the F/A-22 Raptor, or the brand new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. Combat evil in over 30 missions as you dogfight your way across the satellite-mapped terrain of California and Nevada. Follow mission briefings as a sinister plot unfolds before your eyes, right up to the startling climax where you will be forced to face the horrifying truth about your mysterious foe.

Strap yourself in, check your fuel and weapons systems, and get ready to show no mercy.

Features:

• Over 30 gut-wrenching, action-packed, air-to-air and air-to-ground missions to keep you in the thick of the battle
• Stunning 3D graphics, environmental audio, and highly detailed, satellite-mapped environments
• 90,000 square miles of flyable satellite-mapped terrain of the south-western USA
• Three flyable Lockheed Martin jets: the F-16 Fighting Falcon, F/A-22 Raptor, and new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
• Realistic flight physics and weapon platforms provide the ultimate challenge
• Make every mission count as you fight your way through a mystery that will keep you guessing at every turn
• Includes an in-game custom editor giving you the ability to create highly customizable, single-mission challenges

Product Description

Fly as the first line of defense against the Sino-Russian Coalition and its dreaded SuperCarrier loaded with MiG-42s, MiG-44s, and deadly S-37s. Using state of the art weapons and high tech fighter jets, your mission is to stop the enemy from securing a foothold on the West Coast. The game features over 40,000 square miles of photo-textured terrain and over 180 objects that can be destroyed. Thunder beneath bridges, slalom through power line towers, and play deadly cat and mouse around San Fransisco, Oakland, and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars So much wrong with it, where do I start? Worse.. No Support, November 23, 2003

By 

defilm "defilm" (New York, United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jetfighter 5 (CD-ROM)

Jetfighter V is the pits! Only receiving a 53%+- pcgamer, I was looking for a "non-die-hard" sim so I can play with my boys (12 and 13). After reading how it was more like an arcade game, I thought it would be perfect.

I load it, all three systems are Win 98Sp2, Abit KT7 motherboards, Geforce 4 TI 4600, latest drivers, directx9.0b. Everything runs on these systems. Good luck trying to get it all to work....Small things like seeing the hud?? Where do I start? Oh boy.(:-(

Don't expect support. The box notes support at www.jetfighterv.com. Well it is really jetfighter5.com, and has been closed at least the last week. Their support area don't even mention Jetfighter V!

I also purchased Lock-On, from the same Russian programmers that gave us IL-22 and Striker. I guess I will try to "dumb" that one up instead. (But it has a bug and don't run on 98 right now!). I rather wait for the patch, or upgrade to XP at $89 than spend $... on this title. They are up to V, and still can't get it right.

Spend your $30 on anything else.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars What happened??!!, July 11, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Jetfighter 5 (CD-ROM)

This has got to be the worst Jetfighter ever. I had more fun with the first Jetfighter game 15 years ago. You just play the same game over and over again. You don't get to land or takeoff, or even attempt carrier landings. What a complete waste of money.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars One of the Crappiest Games Ever Produced..., December 19, 2003

By 

Peter Gnanapragasam (Calgary AB) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jetfighter 5 (CD-ROM)

If there is a game that should be given 0 stars this is definitely one of them. So you ask what is wrong with this game that would give it such a bad review?

Well there is too much to list. There is too much wrong with this piece of junk software that it is hard to find even a technical aspect of the game that is worthy of mentioning.

Let me list my system details:
Pentium 1.6GHz 400FSB with 512MB shared memory (32MB for 8x AGP video) DirectX 9. This surpasses the RECOMMENDED requirements excepting that the video cards 32MB is a minimum requirement.

So you think this game would run half decently on such a system. But alas, this is not to be. Because this game just old plain sucks.

Talk about .806 seconds of lag between physical mouse movement and response on screen. So I plodded in this screen chasing the mouse pointer on the screen making tiny movements until I got to a place that was clickable. Too much work for no enjoyment. Thus I worked me way through the single mission screens until I was ready to fly.

I choose the F-22 Lightning III (Raptor) and start my mission to rescue America from the Evil. What is that??? I am looking around and I see that I am in a F-16 Fighting Falcon?? Something must be wrong I tell myself. But alas again I am not. Studying the gospel according to Global Star Software all the platforms have the same cockpit in Jetfighter V.

Anyways, try to live with that none reality for the moment let me do some jet jockey stuff. I push over the joystick in an attempt to roll the F-22 that is a F-16. No movement. So I move it more over to the right no movement. So I tried it again and there it was it moved and moved and moved having me chase the artificial horizon all over the place to try and level out the worst F-22 raptor that was made for the US Air Force. There was so much lag that you tend to have to plan you moves in advance because you will end up chasing the plane all around the HUD and never ever get to where you wanted to in the first place. Measured lag at this point was 1.670 seconds.

The manual for the game says that real satellite mapping was used in the creation of the terrain. Ah ha ah ha ah ha. Maybe the satellite map is only correct if you bought it from Nauru. There is beautiful farmland where there should be just scrubland. So much for satmaps from Nauru. Has Nauru launched a satellite yet? The terrain takes so much time to refresh and is too blocky when refreshing.

I had enough of the game already. I uninstalled the game as there was no support for the game. The website given is a farce and they had removed their forum page as too many members were paying there games disrespect. Is it worth the $20 I paid ... ? No. I suppose I feel I should have got paid for putting my time into it working to get it going and putting up with the frustration.

I would never again buy a game from this company again as I have never had any good experiences with ANY of their games.