Lock On: Modern Air Combat

by UBI Soft

Product Features

• Choose from nine combat aricraft from the U.S. or Russia -- from the tank-killing A-10 Warthog to the masters of the sky, the F-15C Eagle
• Intensely realistic flight campaigns and a fully-immersive combat environment provide you with unlimited hours of gameplay
• Use the Dynamic Battle Generator to create your own combat scenarioes
• Incredible sound effects and stunning 3D objects, plus a special training mode and unique background story, make you feel like a combat pilot
• Multiplayer excitement for up to 32 players, via LAN or Internet connection

Product Details

• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000066641
• Item Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 24, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (109 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,666 in Video Games (See Top 100 in Video Games)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Feel the power of commanding a modern jet fighterProduct Information Fly a variety of combataircraft in the most graphically rich audio intense game environment evercreated for a combat flight simulator. Lock On: Modern Air Combat combines abroad scope of game play that includes engaging missions an immersive combatenvironment and in-your-face action. Choose from eight U.S. and Russian jetsthat range from the tank-killing A-10 Warthog and ground-pounding Su-25Frogfoot to air superiority fighters like the F-15C Eagle and Su-27 Flanker. Filled with intense campaigns realistic flight modeling and flexible gameoptions Lock On will provide unlimited game play action to both novice andveteran flight sim fans.  Includes 20 single missions and 4 campaigns eachwith its own background and story.Product Features Eight flyable aircraft two US and five Russian and one German (A-10A Warthog F-15C Eagle Su-27 Flanker B MiG-29 Fulcrum A MiG-29 Fulcrum C Su-25 Frogfoot Su-33 Flanker D and German MiG-29). The Black Sea region which includes the Crimean peninsula and the eastern Caucuses is the setting for the hypothetical present day air conflict. Stunning 3D objects and terrain create the best looking world ever created for a flight simulation. Everything from aircraft to tanks to buildings are recreated in unmatched detail. An incredibly detailed area with dynamic lighting effects featuring more than 180000 buildings 50000000 trees 21 cities 1700 towns and villages 500 bridges 18 airfields and 8 naval bases. Realistic sound effects and audio environment that includes communication with wingmen AWACS tankers and tower/approach controllers. A range of player missions including training quick start fast battle

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This rocks!, July 1, 2005

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David A. Porter (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lock On: Modern Air Combat (CD-ROM)

Well I was reluctant to pick this up. A friend advised me that it didn't run on his top of the line PC. He said that it was fine until clouds and weather affects were added and then trouble occured. Anyway eventually I found it in a discount bin and decided to pick it up. It runs brilliantly on my machine, absolutely flawlessly. My box 2.8Ghz, 1Gig Dual Channel Ram, ATI 9600 Extreme. I was so impressed I went and bought myself a set of X45 Saitek HOTAS gear. How much fun is this. Blowing away bandits in an F15 without ever having to touch the keyboard. The sound is only in stereo unfortunately so I can mix up my EAX settings to run it on 4 speakers but a 5.1 setup would have been nice. The graphics put MSFS2004 to shame. It took me a week or so before I was comfortable flying the Eagle and there are more planes to go. The game has a great level of depth and I printed off the Flaming Cliffs manual which helped some too (all 262 pages). Campaign builder takes a little time to figure out - like the whole thing really, but this isn't a console game this is a complex piece of software. Saying all of this the game isn't for everyone, it takes time, patience and an attention to detail to get the most out of it. I spent a week or so readjusting settings till I was happy. Neverthless this has helped my love and interest of flying and quite frankly this piece of software is a hobby for me rather than a game.

57 of 65 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best modern combat sim ever!, October 24, 2003

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Roman Artemyev (Huntington, WV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lock On: Modern Air Combat (CD-ROM)

Installed a demo. Don't know what the guys who posted below are talking about but im running demo on my rig with following specs:

Athlon 1700+
ATI Radeon 9500 moded to 9700
SoundBlaster Live! 5.1
513MB of SDRAM

Game settings: resolution 1600X1200, 2x AA, 4x AF

The game is smooth. Geting on average 30 FPS. Physical model is great, graphics is great both environment and landscape (i come from Ukraine so i know how landscape is supposed to look like there:)) The only thing i didn't like was the damage model. But i think it's going to be fixed by the release date.

Of course it is not an arcade game. It is a hard core flight simulation with everithing that this entails. You gotta learn how to fly.

Everyone who is passionate about aviation should get this game!

PS. If your demo isnt running great, check out ubisoft's forums. You can learn how to set up you hardware, drivers, and the game right so it is playable.

21 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The end of dumbing down, January 31, 2004

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M. Bhangal "S" (Somewhere in Northern England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Lock On: Modern Air Combat (CD-ROM)

If you are not technically minded, don't buy this game. If you dont know the difference between a directX 9 card and a directX 9 compliant card (one works with DirectX 9 but does some of it in software and is useless for many modern games), dont bother. If you have a computer that is not correctly configured, don't even think about it. If you expect to run the game and play well within an hour, stop reading now.

Now for the rest of us, the ones who are sick of console games and know how to build their own machines so that they run well, irrespective of the age of the components. The ones who are prepared to sit down and actually learn how to use a program, and know that a third party manual is the only way to even begin to do justice to this simulation (it is *not* a game)... This one is for you.

Runs well on my 9500 pro (heavily overclocked, with an artic cooler mod), XP2000+ processer and 1Gb RAM and with all of the simulation settings set to high except water quality and view distance (set to low and medium respectively) - as per the manual recomendations (hint for all the folks with low frame rates!). Mine is not a high end machine, but I took pains to work out what the most stable drivers were for everything before installing this game (catalyst 3.7 for the video, plus latest VIA sound drivers for my onboard audio), because I knew it would be a demanding game... not on hardware, but on software configuration. Mid range hardware seems okay on all the latest games, but it is drivers and general software config that causes problems, ddespite what some of the other reviewers seem to think.

Know what? It worked first time, and it worked well. I'm enjoying going through the LOMAC manual (the one published by Digital Aspirin), learning how to play this beast, and when you get into the zone it is absolutely great.

For example, in one mission, I am tasked with shooting down a valuable and well protected AWACs plane that is patrolling off the coast. It is protected by a pair of F4s and there is a patroling squad of F16s nearby.... all of which totally outclasses and outguns my pair of MiGs. So its a case of tactical flight - flying undetected with stealth (passive non-emitting sensor modes), and a BVR attack on the AWACS from behind, placing the F4s in a position where they are furthest away from my escape vector when I de-cloak and initiate the attack. Following my stike on the AWACS, I head for the deck running, using the mountains as cover and using the low level air density to significantly cut missile range (yes, it even models that!). A long chase follows, with the two F4's and my wingman buying it in a short but fast dogfight, when the F4s elect to cut their altitude for speed and catch up. But I make it home, low level all the way to avoid lock-ons by the F16s, who were following at high altitude taking BVR pot-shots.

Exhilarated is the only word I can use when I made it to my side's air defences, and watched the F16s turn and sulk back home... Mission Accomplished!

Now that's gameplay.

S