Description The best selling Comanche series returns with this fast-paced action game that places you at the controls of a Comanche RAH-66 helicopter. In over 30 missions, the game combines serious firepower with effortless controls and stunning, interactive terrain.
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Rating Reviewed by: Roger Leger(Unregistered User)
Review Date December 4, 2002
Overall Rating 1 of 5
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, from Powell River
Price Paid:
$21.00
from Walmart
Summary: The graphics are okay, although do lack a bit of clarity, but my main bone of contention with the game is the "Training" portion of the game and the "Options" selection. Never having flown a helicopter, I find a lack of information in what makes it go forwards, backward, sideways etc. very lacking and confusing. If the manual explained it properly alonside a program that showed the helicopter relative to the terrain, I know I could pick it up somewhat easier, as it stands though, I can see where it can take a novice like myself an annoying period of time to experiment and learn. For some reason I can't figure out, I have both a joystick and a gamepad hooked up to my computer, but the program will not recognize the joystick unless I disconnect the gamepad ???. In the options portion of the program, seeing as there is what appears to be checkboxes, why are there not checkmarks in the selected boxes. This sort of selection technique is a fairly good and well proven method of selecting options. The method you've used of just making one wall thinner (or all 4 sides the same width) instead of a checkmark is one big step backwards from the tried and proven checkmark system. Sincerely not satisfied and if there were a refund available for the product I would gladly return it, but as it the case with so much software, if you try it, you own it.
Summary: The thing I like most about this game is its ease of play. You do not have to sit down and go through flight school to command the comanche. The details are all there as well. I served in the Army and it is really nice to see a game maker actually get the specs correct. I am not a big flight sim guy or game nut at all but this game is so far one of the best I have ever played and I see my self playing this one through. I haven't tried multi-player yet but am sure it will be just as an awarding experience.
Summary: Hard core sim fans may not like this one, but for folks who just want to sit down, fly and shoot a lot, C4 could be close to perfection.
Still, my tendency is to compare C4 to the perhaps incomparable Enemy Engaged series, because that's the only other helo game I'm familiar with. EE is a hard act to follow even for Razorworks, so it seems. But C4 and Novalogic deserve to be judged on their own merit. Unfortunately, that being said, what I really had my heart set on seeing was a prettier game that plays as well as EE Comanche-Hokum. I didn't find that in C4. I'm sure the good people at Novalogic played Enemy Engaged: Comanche vs Hokum before before making C4. Obviously they couldn't just copy it. I suppose they found some room left in the genre, or thought they did, for a different type of helo sim. So they made C4 into something different. Just what I would have done. C4 is probably best for someone who is new to the flight simulation genre, and is not sure if they want to dive in all the way.
"I knew Jack Kennedy, he was a friend of mine, and Senator you're no Jack Kennedy" (Bentsen- Quayle vice-presidential debate 1988). Don't worry if you're under 35, you won't understand that joke.
Here's the merits of C4, in my opinion. It's a beautiful game, easy to start and play. No big flight manual to study. Few game commands to learn. Setup and interface are simple and straight forward. I had no problems installing or running it, worked good right out of the box. So many games these days need significant patching for smooth play. Not this one. There is an update to v1.0.0.12 download, but I didn't really see what it did until later in the game.
Rating Reviewed by: Richard Drex(Unregistered User)
Review Date January 18, 2002
Overall Rating 4 of 5
Review NaN of 6
Summary: This game is the perfect flight sim for the first-person shooter fan. You want pure action over realism, you got it. You'd prefer a realistic simulation, well it comes close. Anyhow, play through a few missions and you'll appreciate the level of detail and depth the develops put into this game. With a large single-player campaign and multi-player support expect a long shelf life. And the game offers enough configuration variety to allow the personality of the gamer to come through. I prefer a more arcade-shooter experience.
Summary: Commanche 4 is a sim game that is half arcade and half sim. You won't get bogged down with a lot of keystrokes to learn or take days to just learn how to take-off and land. It's simple and fun for the most part, but it is extremely unstable on my machine.
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