Lock On: Modern Air Combat is a simulator developed by Eagle Dynamics, released 20 November 2003 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Lock On: Modern Air Combat is
Lock On: Modern Air Combat is a simulator game developed by Eagle Dynamics and released in 2003. It was published by 1C Company. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only. It carries an ESRB E age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lock On: Modern Air Combat is considered as a survey simulator by its creators. It contains 8 flyable aircraft and over 40 non-playable/AI-controlled planes. The game mainly revolves around air-to-air combat and air-to-ground combat with some optional, unique roles such as pinpoint/anti-radiation strikes, anti-ship strikes or aerobatics. The game realistically models all aspects of take-off and landing, AWACS (also known as AEW&C), carrier-based landings (for the Su-33), and aerial refueling.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are action and warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Lock On: Modern Air Combat holds a critic score of 84 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2003 averaged 69, so it scored 15 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Lock On: Modern Air Combat launched on 20 November 2003, within three weeks of Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom and Need for Speed: Underground. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Beyond Good & Evil, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time, SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom, Need for Speed: Underground.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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