Top Gun: Hornet's Nest
Top Gun: Hornet's Next is the sequel to Top Gun: Fire at Will. Once more you take on the role of US Navy pilot Maverick in his F-18 Hornet. The game features a multi-player mode, instant action and a campaign…
Top Gun: Hornet's Nest is a simulator developed by Zipper Interactive, released 18 December 1998 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Top Gun: Hornet's Nest is
Top Gun: Hornet's Nest is a simulator game developed by Zipper Interactive and released in 1998. It was published by MicroProse Software, Inc.. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Top Gun: Hornet's Next is the sequel to Top Gun: Fire at Will. Once more you take on the role of US Navy pilot Maverick in his F-18 Hornet. The game features a multi-player mode, instant action and a campaign with 30 missions. In the campaign missions are briefed with full motion videos. Battles in this flight simulator are fought in Columbia, Siberia and the Persian Gulf.
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are warfare. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Multiplayer and Single player.
Where it sits in the Top Gun series
Top Gun: Hornet's Nest is the 11th of 20 entries we hold in the Top Gun series. It arrived 3 years after Top Gun: Fire at Will!. The next entry was Top Gun: Combat Zones in 2001.
How it was received
Top Gun: Hornet's Nest holds a critic score of 38 out of 100. That places it above 4% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 1998 averaged 70, so it scored 32 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Top Gun: Hornet's Nest launched on 18 December 1998, within three weeks of Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party and Thief: The Dark Project. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Suikoden II, Crazy Taxi (1999), Mario Party, Thief: The Dark Project.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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