F29 Retaliator

The Good
This game really has one of the most beautiful soundtracks I've ever heard in a game from the pre-digitized sound era, almost as good as in Wing Commander. Even if the game is not too realistic it is pretty fun to play. The graphics are all right, and the airplanes are easy to control - a little too easy perhaps. But they put some reality in it, such as if you turn too fast you end up unconscious, flying around with the gears down damages them and such.. You have two airplanes to choose from, a fictional F-22, fictional in the sense that the real F-22 looks nothing like the one in the game, and the F-29, an interesting airplane that in reality - at least as far as I know - is nothing but an experiment plane, named X-29.

The Bad
Not much, really. There are some bugs in it. Some times the sound doesn't work until you enter the multiplayer menu, press F7 and go back to the main menu, you can hit things you thought you where pretty far away from, and sometimes the gears and flaps gets damaged directly after take-off.

The mission areas are also far too small, it takes less than a minute to fly from one end of it to the other.

Apart from that and the bugs I really can't think of anything I dislike in the game.

The Bottom Line
A fun, but buggy, arcade flight simulator with two airplanes - the F22 and the F29, and four scenario areas (US desert test and training sites, pacific conflict, middle east conflict and a european war) each with several missions. It also has wonderful music (only played during the menus though, nothing in-game), and good sound effects.

A pretty good game for it's time - and still worth playing. I'd even recommend buying it if you ever see it in a shop!