GT Interactive KA-52 Team Alligator Simulation Review

Overall Rating
 2 of 5

Price Paid:  $10.00 from Electronics Boutique

Summary:
I'm usually a guy who's pretty forgiving when it comes to games. There are a lot of games out there that others have skewered in reviews that I actually ended up feeling were OK games, albeit with some problems. A good example of this was Gunship! Sure, it has it's problems, but I found it to be fun once you got used to it. Well, I read the reviews for KA-52 Team Alligator, and many of them said this was a better game than Gunship!. One reviewer even matched the two games 'head to head', and said that Team Alligator beat Gunship! hands down. I found TA for a cheap price, and figured that since it was supposed to be better than Gunship!, and since I actually enjoyed Gunship!, I couldn't go wrong. Well, I don't know who wrote the reviews for TA, but TA is one of the worst, if not the worst, games I have ever played.
Now, I do understand that this game is marketed as an 'action sim', which is fine. Action sims are great...they have smaller learning curves and can be a lot of fun. However, this game is so screwy, if someone new to flight sims tried this game out for the first time, it might just be the last sim they ever try.
I really tried to like this game, and perhaps I'll change my mind someday. However, as it stands I would suggest you save your money. If you have to buy it wait until it ends up in a bargain bin for $4.99 at some store then take a stab at it. If you choose to pay the $30 or more I've seen it priced for at some stores, you do so at your own risk.

Overall Rating
 3 of 5

Price Paid:  $20.00 from Sam's Club

Summary:
Not as bad as Gunship! A patch is available to fix the flight controls. It is greatest game but is funner then Gunship! with buggy problems. Still isn't fun as Realistic as Apache Havoc or Longbow 2 or even Longbow Gold. The patch is available distrubute by a third party. It good effort.

Overall Rating
 1 of 5

Summary:
This game shows to be a great game if you can ever get it going. My system has all the needed requirements but it will not play past the into video. i feel that there may still be some bugs in it and hope they will get some patches that will solve this .