Gunship 2000

aka: GS2000, Gunship 2000: Mehrere Kampfhubschrauber im Gefecht - Eine völlig neue Simulation, Gunship 2000: The All-New Multi-Helicopter Combat Simulation, Gunship 2000: The Multi-Helicopter Gunship Simulation

Released

1991 on DOS

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Publishers

Developers

MPS Labs

Moby Score

8.2

#1,013 of 155K

Critics

83% (44)

Players

(96)

Ranking

#5 on Amiga CD32
#17 on Amiga
#298 on DOS

Collected By

51 players

Genre: Simulation
Perspective: 1st-person
3rd-person (Other)
Vehicular: Helicopter
Vehicular combat

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Take the Apache, the new Longbow Apache, The Blackhawk, Comanche Scout, Comanche Gunship, or the MD-500 Defender on campaigns or missions. The updated graphics engine provides much more detailed terrain variation, with true valleys/hills and even train tunnels that you can fly through. When you are promoted to a sufficient rank you can take along multiple helicopters to accomplish your objectives. The dynamic campaign generates new missions based on multiple maps. Attack, defend, sweep, scout, rescue, drop... Lots of missions to keep you busy. The crew learns and grows in experience as they continue to survive and succeed. A full mission recorder allows you to view every member of your team as they fight or die. Plenty of weapons are available for your side from the latest Hellfire missiles and Sidearm anti-radar missiles to the old-fashioned chain gun and gun pods are available for your use. The enemy can be well-armed as well, from deadly 2S6 gun/missile combo to old-fashion ZSU-23, even the occasional MiGs.

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Credits (DOS version)

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Game Design	James M. Day Darrell Dennies Detmar Peterke
Topographical 3D Concept/Programming	Darrell Dennies
Programming	Darrell Dennies Detmar Peterke
3D Graphics	Max Remington
World Graphics	James M. Day
Animation Tools	David McKibbin
Illustration/Graphic Design	Michael Reis
Additional Art	Michael Gibson Michael Haire Matt Scibilia
EGA Graphics	Michael Reis Brian Martel Patrick Downey Harry E. Teasley
Original Music Compositions	Jeffery L. Briggs
Sound and Music Programming	Ken Lagace Jim McConkey Scott Patterson
Documentation	James M. Day
Additional Documentation	Sean Gallagher
Editorial Department	Merry L. Day B. C. Milligan
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Subject	User	Date
Problems with Briefing	Warmonger 696 (0)	2011-03-15 18:47:35

Trivia

Barrel roll

It is actually possible to perform a barrel roll in any of the helicopters in the game, given sufficient altitude, even the Blackhawk.

German version

There are animals in each of the theaters (camels in Persian Gulf, Penguins in Antartica, and so on), and you can shoot the animals (indeed, splatter them with rockets should you choose to) unless you're using the German version. In the German version the animals are invincible.

Innovations

Gunship 2000 is the first game where you can pilot a chopper and fly through a train tunnel... Long before the final scene in the movie Mission: Impossible.

Main menu

If you click on the "monitor" in the main menu section (inside the base office), the screen will switch among three modes, one of them is pong, one is gunship, and third is some document... The electric outlet sparks when clicked.

References

Look for various "advertising signs" that you can destroy through the different areas. They advertise other MicroProse games, and you actually get points for destroying them.

Awards

Amiga Joker
- Issue 02/1994 – #2 Best Simulation in 1993 (Readers' Vote)
GameStar (Germany)
- Issue 12/1999 - #54 in the "100 Most Important PC Games of the Nineties" ranking