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First of all, if I used any other Third Wire executable (SF2: Europe’s, for example), none of the new shaders worked and any modified campaigns I had made (like adding carriers to stock campaigns) didn’t work very well, but worked perfectly if I used the SF2: Israel executable. After installation, I noticed a few things.
This continues to be the heart and soul of the game, offering extended replayability aspects to it. This was fine for previous titles, but a little disconcerting to hear over the radio of an Israeli Air Force airplane. On the other, the ATC and pilot voices still sound like they’re from Broken Elbow, North Carolina. On one hand the guns firing and the exploding percussive shock waves from bomb impacts sound pretty good. Sound continues to be a schizophrenic sticking point. Essentially it’s a game-changer and makes the stock effects of the previous titles look cheap by comparison. Hitting the pickle button of my own aircraft, I watched with glee as the night sky around me glowed bright.Īlso, the new shaders give the aircraft’s anti-collision and running lights very convincing look as does the glow of the afterburner effect. I was on a close air support mission with three other Neshers (the Israeli-built Mirage 5) and gave the order to attack and jumped out of my chair when I heard the hiss of the unguided rockets leaving their pods and saw the brilliant, dazzling light of their rocket motors firing off. The new effects have trumped anything that’s been done before, third-party or otherwise.
Fluid framerates with absolutely stunning high-resolution cockpits and the details maxed out to the Unlimited settings, I was in air combat heaven visually. You’d think more graphics goodness would slow it down. The result? On a system that used to get 18-20 frames per second on Wings Over Israel, it’s now hitting 30-35 in Strike Fighters 2 with the addition of DX10 shaders.
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Ever since the undertaking of converting the original series to Vista-compatibility, TK’s been threatening to fully implement DX10 into the game engine and the guy finally went and did it. This is where the greatest change has been made. You don’t have to have FLIR gear and ECM to enjoy yourself. It’s a nimble little racehorse with dirt-simple avionics, making you feel like you’re really experiencing some of the first supersonic jet fighter combat the world ever saw. I used to enjoy the Kfir from the original series, but the latest iteration of the Shahak just blew me away.
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dll files still lend themselves well to 60s and 70s-era warhorses, but don’t expect them to model 5th-generation fighters too well, for you modders who can’t live without an F-22. Putting it on “Normal” offers the best balance of challenge and believability. Surface-to-air gunners are still the greatest threat to you and the AI still cheats a little when you put the difficulty level on “Hard”. The newest version does bring a slew of new AI planes, both friendly and enemy, bringing the number of both AI and friendly planes somewhere in the nineties.
There’s still an element of Fighters Anthology feel to it in the sense that you can still dress up any plane in anyone’s livery. Rivet counters are still going to be disappointed. However, as TK likes to point out, these titles are about fun. The AI is still far more aggressive and skillful than it was in the first release of the games, but still much less lethal than some of the more hardcore simulations. Strike Fighters, at its heart, is still primarily a single-player experience. The multiplayer, like the other second-generation titles, is still missing, but no one’s really screaming for its return.
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This aspect hasn’t appreciably changed since the last patch of the original series in 2008. I fully expected him to be at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas watching the Red River Shootout (it’ll be a cold day in Hell before I call the pansy “Red River Rivalry”), not releasing a game. TK is an avowed Teasip (what we Aggies call fans of the University of Texas) and he released it on Texas / OU Weekend. The release date kind of had me puzzled, though. The latest, which we’re reviewing today, brings even more improvements. Best of all, they’re only twenty bucks, making the collateral damage to wallet as small as possible. With the new series came a slew of improvements like graphics tuning and quite possibly the best of all, high-resolution virtual cockpits that make the previous games and the efforts of a lot of third-party modders obsolete. By now, everyone knows that the Third Wire series has been undergoing a conversion to make the games Vista-compatible, something the original series can do with some mildly creative folder editing.īut it doesn’t look nearly as good.
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