I remember playing F/A-18 Korea or something and I never understood it but shooting my wingman with ASRAAMs was fun.  Im after a flightsim to play when Im bored, with shiny jet planes in.  Something modern, something with real planes (not lasers etc).  Any suggestions?

Best flightsim I ever used was something like F22 Raptor.

Simple interface, and was mainly for just quick 10 minute fragfests

Turning off radar and relying on awacs for getting through radar nests, and using flares and chaff against sams, bombing ground targets, and just generally playing around with the different things... like flying up to 50,000ft and turning off your engines and doing an entire mission whilst gliding. Take out the bad guys using the asraams from above the clouds, task your wingman to take out the ground targets, and concentrate on just landing at the airport.

Heck even turning on your wingman, your own airbase (you could bomb it to hell and back when you took off), then going to take out the Awacs and its escorts.

Used to love that game, think it was made by Novalogic.

Wonder if any games exist like it now?

Sorry didnt exactly add anything useful to your thread, but im interested in this too.

Doesnt need to be graphically intense, but does require some control over realism, and I hate faffing around with multiple screens when all I wanna do is fly around in my jet plane, dodge sams and blow up things I dont want to be concerned with changing radio frequencies, or other things.

Kickass: Found a demo of it again, and found a place where you can download it for $9 Brilliant!

http://uk.gamespot.com/pc/sim/f22raptor/ < demo and screenshots there.

http://uk.gamespot.com/pages/gamespace/index.php?pid=197281

F-22 lightning 3 demo there.  gonna give that a whirl

nice find! kick ass!

il2 was awesome. flying at its best imo.

Falcon 4.0

Never equalled.

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Lock-on was ment to be good but very very realistic (to the point of its alot of effort)

Falcon 4.0 was just faff!!! had a demo of that, stupid fiddly MFDs and pressy buttons thing, spent most of my time trying to figure out the damn interface than flying!

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rofl sadly not then I can deal with it in Flight Sim 2004. But crikey... when im trying to figure out the damn flight controls I do not want to get shot up the ass.

Nuclear bombs are pretty! too lol bloody annoying when you drop them below 10,000ft and try and speed away. Just aint gonna happen.

Lock On : Modern Air Combat is one of the best "modern" sims. (Im not counting F4 since even with AF its lacking in a few areas).

You should be able to pick up the original game plus Flaming Cliffs expansion for very little now.

http://lockon.co.uk/index.php?lang=en

Incidentally the SU-25T SU-25 flight models with the Flaming Cliffs expansion are the best and most realistic ever produced in a simulation.

The Black Shark expansion will be released soon which will allow you to fly the Kamov KA-50 attack helicopter as well (with a high fidelity flight model). Thatll bring the total flyables to nine (F-15C, Mig-29A, Mig-29C, Su-25, Su-25T, A-10A, Su-27, Su-33, Ka-50).

Edit : If its a quick blast you are after then Wings Over Europe will suit you fine. http://www.boldgames.com/products/woe/woe.html

Cheers for the heads up for Wings over Europe there Chris

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One game I did use to enjoy quite a bit was Commanche (cant remember what version) any chance anyone knows the latest revision to it?

novalogic - commanche 4 ?

commanche (or apache?) vs hokum ?

ahhh its commanche 4

Janes Attack Squadron was a pretty good WW2 game. Had a lot of fun with it over network.

Falcon 4.0 was technically great but I must admit it was a little too realistic for me.

Couldnt get to grips with Lock On either. Im still looking for the perfect flight game.....



.......actually I think it was Janes US Navy Fighters from years back.....