Lock On: Modern Air Combat

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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: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000066641
• Item Weight: 8 ounces
• Media: CD-ROM
• Release Date: November 24, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,898 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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Product Description

Product Description

Feel the power of commanding a modern jet fighter Product 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 jets

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

51 of 59 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

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

By	David A. Porter (Sydney, Australia) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the effort, January 14, 2005

By	Kanishka Ray (Alexandria, VA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars 

I bought this game about a year ago, and had a really difficult time mastering the learning curve. Since the documentation was so sparse, I mostly laid off trying to master the avionics and just flew it like a dogfighter, flying Sues, MiGs and 15s in "guns only fights, and then just marveling at how beautiful the game was. Mastering navigation and landing was itself a challenge, but I just loved staring out from the cockpit during a descent and feeling very much like I was in a real cockpit in air....the illusion and immersiveness was that real.

Eventually I moved onto other games, but I never removed this game from my hard drive. It felt like a keeper. Now a year later, I've patched it, put some of the add-ons in, and I'm still learning new stuff! I've finally mastered the Su-27 BVR mode and CAC mode. I've also learned how to effectively use EOS and have successfully won missions with it. This is one of those games that you have let grow on you.....at this point I have virtually no doubt that LOMAC is going to be the Falcon4 of the next 5 years. It is going to be slowly patched and modified while hardware grows around it.

I am running an Athlon 2600, with 1GB of PC3200 RAM, and a Radeon 9700 on Windows 2000 SP4. There are a few graphics options I have to turn down, but the game is extremely stable (0 crashes) and gives me playable framerates about 90% of the time at a resolution of 1024x768. Overall the game is very scalable and needs to be tweaked to get the happy medium between performance and eye candy depending on the capabilities of your machine.

I literally can't wait for my next upgrade, and wonder how great this game will look and fly with a fast 64-bit CPU and a next gen video card.

This is a great simulation, and one which will reward you with priceless satisfaction if you are willing to invest the time and effort in learning its intricacies.