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Building upon the wildly successful Jetfighter franchise, Jetfighter 5 is the ultimate flight combat challenge. Period. Juke and jive your way through over 30 pulse racing, sweat inducing combat missions over America's south-western coast, as authentic enemy jets and ground forces come at you with everything they've got. Unravel a deep, engrossing plot as you take the reins of the legendary F-16, the lethal F-22 Raptor, or the new Joint Strike Fighter, and launch Maverick's and Sidewinder's full of "welcome to my house" at the hapless invaders in full speed, real time air combat. Immerse yourself in breathtaking 3D environments powered by the Renderware engine, as visually stunning unit models fire hot, polygon-pushing death up your six. Lose yourself - not to mention the Mig-42's on your tail - in the highly detailed, satellite mapped terrain of California and Nevada, including the skyscrapers of Los Angeles and the glitz of Las Vegas.
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Jetfighter 5 is one of the latest games to make use of the multiplatform Renderware engine, by Criterion. This high-performance engine, available for the Xbox, PS2, Gamecube, and PC, has already been the brawn behind games including Starsky and Hutch, World Series Baseball 2K3, all the way to the high-speed Sonic Heroes. Graphics are sharp, fast, and leave little to desire. The ground textures, although somewhat low resolution once you get below a thousand feet, are quite nicely done. In any case, you hardly notice the resolution when screaming over the landscape at 400 knots. Although sparse, there are indeed trees in the landscape, which adds quite a nice touch.
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Jetfighter 5 – Homeland Protector will pit the player against a mysterious organization bent on total annihilation of the American way of life, attacking with stolen North Korean air and ground forces. Players will Juke and jive their way through over 30 highly detailed and realistic combat missions, in an effort to discover the identity of the shadowy force invading America's south-western coast, while fighting tooth and nail to repel their attacks. A deep, engrossing plot will be unraveled as the player takes the reins of officially licensed Lockheed-Martin™ Jets, including the legendary F-16 Fighting Falcon ™, the lethal F-22 Raptor™, and the new F-35 Joint Strike Fighter ™, and makes use of military stalwarts such as the Maverick and Sidewinder missiles. The flyable aircraft will feature authentic sounds and modeling, providing a realistic feel to the action while still being accessible to the amateur fighter jockey. With breathtaking 3D environments using Criterion’s Renderware engine, hundreds of square miles of actual satellite mapped terrain will be used, including the southwestern coast of California and the deserts of Nevada. Fly in and around the Grand Canyon, the skyscrapers of Los Angeles, and the glitz of Las Vegas, battling the enemy forces at every step.
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Jetfighter certainly won't worry flight-sim developers. Each of the game's missions starts you off in the air, so there's no worry about takeoffs and landings. There's ... no need to fret over midair stalls, redouts, fuel problems, waypoints, weapons loadouts, or any of the other trials and tribulations that befall "real" pilots. Heck, you won't even need a joystick. Like a midair shooter, Jetfighter is best operated with a mouse and a few keyboard keys. "Strafe," "Hover Up," and "Hover Down" are all commonly accessed commands.
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Jetfighter does not offer a lot of gameplay options. There's a short but informative training session, a free-flight mode that lets you flit about various locales without firing a shot or seeing an opponent, and the game's main event--a nondynamic campaign consisting of 15 individual missions. Each will take you farther toward your final goal and toss more and more enemies at you along the way. A typical scenario involves locating a drug plantation, blowing it to smithereens, discovering other targets and destroying them too, and annihilating the horde of flying machines sent to end your run. Prospective targets include buildings and structures, ships and submarines, and assorted aircraft such as fighter jets, bombers, helicopters, and the like.
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"His commandos besieged the town, shelled it by tanks and heavy artillery and bombed it by jetfighter," Doujaily said. "Helicopters flew over the houses and scared people. Nobody was allowed to enter or go out (of the town)."
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