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COMANCHE 4 CD PATCH SIMULATOR
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Sound: The "dispatcher" updates each mission as it progresses with timely comments and commands. Graphics: Superb explosions, smoke, and water effects define the game. However, since the gameplay from mission to mission doesn't offer much variety, Comanche 4 is best played in short explosion-filled bursts. Most missions will require multiple attempts, which makes every successful sortie feel hard-fought and earned. Taking out all of the anti-aircraft defenses, enemy choppers and tanks, and then proceeding to "liquidate" an enemy encampment is great fun. When the SAMs start whizzing past your chopper you'll start sweating. Evading Surface to Air Missiles is a harrowing experience. Since Comanche 4 is, essentially, a shooter, simplifying the chopper controls (or making certain features optional) would be a welcome modification.Īs is, Comanche 4 offers plenty of challenge, explosions, enemies, and missions. Similarly, the targeting weapons systems are simplistic - appropriate for a shooter, but disappointing for players in search of realism. However, since Comanche 4 requires players to maneuver and destroy clustered targets, shooter-style, the complicated controls are a nuisance. The controls, for example, are fairly complicated, which is appropriate (and even desirable) in a simulation. Most irritants stem from the game's attempt to be both simulation and shooter. For the missions requiring the protection of weak units, success often depends on effective forward scouting and raiding.Ĭomanche 4 players will quickly discover annoying aspects. With the tougher assignments, learning the location of each enemy group allows pilots to leave the prescribed path, eliminate enemy units, then return to the waypoint system.
Players must be prepared for some seat-of-the-pants maneuvering. A system of waypoints allows pilots to follow a planned path for each mission, but, in one of Comanche 4's rare moments of realism, assignments frequently change mid-mission. Succeeding with the increasingly difficult missions typically requires memorizing the general location of all enemies, then eliminating them in a helter-skelter fashion. Terrain, water effects, and smoke are similarly well done. For every successful hit with a "hydra" missile, pilots are rewarded with a spectacular fireball. Fortunately, Comanche 4 has superb graphics, and the gunfights and missile attacks impress. Every mission, regardless of whether you're recapturing a stolen stealth boat or helping a spy escape, is an obvious excuse to include explosions, firestorms, and missile attacks. Comanche 4's faceless enemies might be a problem if the story were important, but it's not. Most assignments revolve around attacking terrorists and military juntas, or supporting a vital covert operations mission.
Every mission requires a single chopper - with minimal help - to eliminate dozens of dangerous targets during pell-mell bursts of activity. Still, this is less of a simulation than it is a straightforward helicopter shooter. Comanche 4 effectively communicates the disorientation and terror of piloting a combat chopper, and punishes pilots whenever they stray too high. The one trump card of a helicopter - the ability to maneuver vertically superbly - allows the vehicle to escape destruction, but only by hugging the ground. Their relatively slow cruising speed makes them perfect targets, and their clumsy maneuvering makes evasion difficult. Flying combat helicopters is, by all accounts, a terrifying experience.