Game Boy Advance

AirForce Delta Storm

Thankfully, the game has three save slots and multiple difficulty settings, so you can vary your approaches to the action and pick up where you last left off. Overall, AirForce Delta Storm is a strong GBA offering from Konami that will greatly please most fans of the flight-combat action genre. Featuring strong graphics, varied gameplay, convincing sound effects, and a high-octane soundtrack, this title hits its mark and soars.

It's definitely nothing like the Xbox game, but Airforce Delta Force isn't a bad little Game Boy Advance shooter. Once you grow accustomed to the simple-yet-complex gameplay and controls, it's actually a lot of fun blasting through the game's missions. Don't go expecting any simulation aspect here...the designers purposely made this game an arcade-style shooter for reasons that become clear the second you pull up on the rear of a bogey. Airforce Delta Force is an acquired taste...it doesn't seem like it'd be everyone's forte. But for those looking to try a new approach to air combat, it's not a bad way to spend 30 bucks.

This is no doubt an interesting title but it's not something you can just jump into. The developers have that part of the simulation genre down right. All the while, I kept thinking how this game might be better if it was turned into a behind the plane action game; like the old Afterburner or the Xbox Airforce Delta Storm. Because of this one design decision to include a z-axis with limited controls in a confined space, the ramifications to the rest of the product are even greater. The solid mission structure and good visuals, for example, are worthy of commendation. Unfortunately, by faltering at such a crucial juncture, Airforce Delta Storm fails to realize its full potential - a title that can't quite get off the ground.