Further Time

Type of program: Space Combat Sim
Supported platforms: Win 98
Company name: Maxim Vorsobine
Authors e-mail address: maxim_vorsobine@mail.ru
Version: 1.0
Cost: $10
Installed size: 12 MB

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This is a space combat simulation with 3D modeling. There are 3 tours, on the first tour are some training missions, and each tour has 6 missions. However, in this demo only 2 missions from the first tour can be played.

Fly your space fighter and fight against enemy wings of fighters, bombers, and interceptors. There are also heavy star ships in the battles. In this 3D world there are star fighters, bombers, interceptors, mid-size frigates with landing sites and huge cruisers with true 3D hangars. You control one of the fighters with 3D cockpits with wide-degree range of view. Each fighter has unique cockpit with HUD, IIP, and MFD. Cockpit indication system includes a HUD, a MFD, a fighter state panel, a messages panel, and a radar panel. There is also a helmet view and a targeting and pilot assistant system.

There is many other things included in the program, what is not included is an adequate help file. I'm a stranger to flight sims, so I couldn't even figure out how to turn the ship even though the keyboard commands said turning left or right is with the arrow keys and you could use either a joystick or a keyboard. Perhaps an experienced flight simmer could sit down and fly off in pursuit of the baddies, but I find it hard to believe that someone would write such a complex and graphic game only for the experienced and shine on the newbies. It's a shame because in one of the views, I was able to see my ship and the asteroids I was supposed to shoot inside a very interesting 3D "pipe".

Don't let this stop you from at least taking a look at the program, perhaps you could figure out how to play without them darn instructions.

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Reviewed by Stormy Strock

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