Gunship2000 like game...

Flibster · 1 May 2006 at 16:54

Been playing on my Amiga again - this time I dug out Gunship 2000 and was soon flying down rivers again below ground level and enjoying myself by popping up - launching a couple of hellfires and sinking down again.

Anything like this on the PC? Especially if it's the Longbow Apache

Really need to get back into flightsims as my Cougars are getting very dusty...

Simon/~Flibster

Buzza · 1 May 2006 at 17:02

they did a sequel to that a few years back on the PC, it "looked" good, but the game wasnt finished and was released in a very bad state, shame really.

i think the last decent heli sim was Comanche vs hokum(enemy engaged) if i remember the name correctly.

http://www.razorworks.com/enemyengaged/

benjo plz. · 1 May 2006 at 17:05

Wasn't Gunship! was it?

Apache Vs Havok and Commanche Vs Hokum are meant to be alright, but the newest one I can think of is Commanche 4.

Buzza · 1 May 2006 at 17:09

yes "Gunship!", that was it

Wasnt Comanche 4 more arcadey though?

benjo plz. · 1 May 2006 at 17:12

Buzza said:
Wasnt Comanche 4 more arcadey though?

Dunno, I never played it

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Buzza · 1 May 2006 at 17:41

Lowe · 1 May 2006 at 18:20

Gunship! was shocking. Very, very poor.

As mentioned Enemy Engaged was superb, and the two sims would run together giving you 4 choppers to fly. The Campaign in it is second to none. Missions are dynamically generated depending on how the virtual war is going, and if you **** up a mission someone else has to go in and clean up your mess.

There's also the add on to LOMAC which added the Hokum IIRC, dunno if this was finally released though.

Lowe · 1 May 2006 at 18:23

Since we can't Hotlink - do a Google Image Search for 'lomac flaming cliffs'

This should give you an idea of what it's about:

http://www.lockonskins.co.uk/files/addon/gallery/1.2/full/addon12-026.jpg

Flibster · 1 May 2006 at 19:02

Good god - mention large choppers and the people flood in.

Been through my boxes of older games...Found some very good stuff..

TFX
Wargasm
Total Air War
Apache Longbow *by Digital Intergration*
Hind *by Digital Intergration*
Jane's AH-64D Longbow *apparently there's a Longbow 2 - will have to keep an eye out for that*

Did find my copy of Enemy Engaged - Comanche Vs Hokum

And the manual for Enemy Engaged - Apache vs Havoc. Errrrr....

Also found a good site about flight sim history - remember to turn the sound down though.

http://migman.com/ - Currently going through it looking for other chopper sims I can have a go at.

Cheers.

Simon/~Flibster

benjo plz. · 1 May 2006 at 19:20

Flibster said:
Wargasm

Hind *by Digital Intergration*

Heh, haven't played either of them since about '98.

Lowe · 2 May 2006 at 15:50

I've got Longbow2 somewhere. Was pretty good, very hardcore for its day.

HangTime · 17 Jul 2007 at 00:52

Managed to pickup a secondhand copy of Comanche 4. Seems like my sort of game, looks like a sim on the surface is plays like an arcade game. I like the fact that it's a pick-up-and-play style of game (fairly rare where aircraft are concerned) that doesn't require reading a 200 page manual just to learn how to take off.

Basically it gives me what I want - the ability to go to war in 'real' scenarios, but without over-emphasis on realism.

The interface is a tad dated now but overall the graphics aren't THAT bad for a 2001 game. Rotors flickering at the top of the screen are doing my nut in though!

Flibster · 17 Jul 2007 at 00:59

Enemy Engaged 2 is now out. It's not easy with everything set to it's most realistic levels.

Very easy to pick up and play, but hard to master.

Simon/~Flibster

Vern1961 · 17 Jul 2007 at 06:30

Lost many hours to Gunship 2000 on the Amiga 600/1200 along with F15 II Strike Eagle from the same stable. In retrospect they were simple by comparison with today's expectation but the implementation and gameplay was compelling. Never forget the genuine shock when a Hind popped up at point blank range or you flew round a hill...into a SAM battery. "We're going red..."

Longbow 2 from Janes/EA was about the best of the siblings.

Unfortunately it was very much a product of its time (early 2000's) and optimised for 3DFX/Voodoo cards. ISTR it didn't work very well under WinME and not at all with XP, also Nvidia graphics cards turned the smooth Voodoo graphics into a patchwork quilt.

However it was quite superb, real tactics and planning required with a semi-dynamic campaign.

Come on EA, how about a re-work and re-release?

Dano · 17 Jul 2007 at 11:19

Gunship 2000 was the game that made me buy an analogue joystick, awesome game

HangTime · 17 Jul 2007 at 18:02

Vern1961 said:
Longbow 2 from Janes/EA was about the best of the siblings.

Unfortunately it was very much a product of its time (early 2000's) and optimised for 3DFX/Voodoo cards. ISTR it didn't work very well under WinME and not at all with XP, also Nvidia graphics cards turned the smooth Voodoo graphics into a patchwork quilt.

Longbow2 was definitely out by 1998 as I remember getting a glide demo on a coverdisk around the time I got my Voodoo1 card.

Might be worth trying a glide wrapper such as http://www.zeckensack.de/glide/ if you wanna run it on a modern card. Worked surprising well in the couple of games I tried using it.

helpimcrap · 17 Jul 2007 at 20:10

i have hind on my amiga.

that game was hard to play lol!

TFX was good on the PC as well but it was another game on the amiga i used to love... cant remember the name...

think it was fighter bomber.... i remember it was the only game i could fly the F-111 in at the time lol.

deadeyedic30 · 17 Jul 2007 at 23:50

The enemy engaged series has tonnes of graphics update and extra campaigns as the devs released the source code online when they went belly up. Look over at sim hq for more info.