There's one thing to say about A-10 Tank Killer and it's this: If you love flight simulators, then this classic is sure to tingle your fingertips, raise your heart rate, and suck you in.
There may have been other flight simulation games before A-10 Tank Killer, but before it there was no equal and every game after it had a bar of excellence to reach. This game brings back memories to the days of my dual operating system loaded sixty-four megabyte hard drive. I ran the game off of MS-DOS and actually still have the four original eight inch floppy disks.
There's one thing to say about A-10 Tank Killer and it's this: If you love flight simulators, then this classic is sure to tingle your fingertips, raise your heart rate, and suck you in.
There may have been other flight simulation games before A-10 Tank Killer, but before it there was no equal and every game after it had a bar of excellence to reach. This game brings back memories to the days of my dual operating system loaded sixty-four megabyte hard drive. I ran the game off of MS-DOS and actually still have the four original eight inch floppy disks.
A-10 Tank Killer features the simulation of the Fairchild-Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, the premier combat plane of the Gulf War. During the Gulf War the A-10, commonly known
as the Warthog or Hog, made excellent use of it’s high manoeuvrability, slow flight speeds, and low flight deck to destroy two-thousand military vehicles, one-thousand tanks, and one-thousand two-hundred artillery pieces, more than proving its capability and reliability as an air to ground assault fighter.
The A-10 can carry a tremendous payload of disposable stores, including the AGM-65 Maverick air to surface missile, Hellfire missiles, rocket pods, cluster bombs, and the occasional laser guided (or conventional) bomb. However, the primary built-in weapon is the GAU-8/A Avenger 30 mm Gatlin gun. This fountain of hell-fire is capable of hailing down about 3900 depleted uranium bullets per minute, sure enough cause for any enemy and potential target to soil themselves at the sight of an approaching squadron of the aptly named “Tank-Killers.”
In A-10 Tank Killer you will take the cockpit as a pilot of one of these tremendously formidable -Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II’s. As you load up the game, you will be enjoyably greeted by a number of digital photos, at the time of the games release these were impressive to say the least, of which the briefing screen, the title screen, and several other screens have incorporated into them.
For any concerned that the controls of this flight combat simulator will be too difficult to figure out, or will take too long to, you may rest assured that by the end of the training mission you will have a more than adequate understanding of the controls and have an apt command of them. You will also have a thorough understanding of the six types of ordinance and their different uses, meaning that each different type of ordinance is used for a specific type of target and the computer will not allow you to use them on a different type of target. I found this bothersome to say the least, as I consistently found myself wanting to use any of the several awesome air to ground missiles on air to air targets. However, I found that it was still quite fun to attempt to fire them on the air to air targets without the assistance of the guidance systems.
In any case, this is the game that got me hooked on flight combat simulators and if you want to be hooked on them too, then I highly recommend this classic!
