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Apache AH-64 Air Assault
(hx) 08:40 PM CEST - May,05 2003
Apache AH-64 Air Assault is a 3D chopper shooter developed by InterActive Vision (these guys created games such as Search And Rescue 4, Vietnam Med Evac, Beyond Pearl Harbor: Pacific Warriors and Worlds Of Billy 2). In the game you get to sit in the cockpit of the AH-64 Apache combat helicopter and do battle with enemy units both in the air and on the ground.
The game features 30 missions with a story-based timeline in both jungle and desert environments, including taking out enemy outposts, providing air support for friendly units, and protecting oil refineries. Each mission has a primary objective that needs to be completed in order to complete the mission. In most cases this will involve some sort of frontal attack on enemy targets. However, some missions may call for tactics and strategic maneuvers rather than head-on attacks, for example if the enemy forces are too massive. The game offers four 4 unique weapons systems: 30mm Chain Gun (effective against lightly armored vehicles or ground soldiers), Hydra Rockets (an unguided rocket, effective against most vehicles at close range), Hellfire Missiles (a radar-guided weapon, effective against all vehicles and targets) and Zuni Rockets (unguided rockets much like the Hydras, though they carry a much more powerful explosive).
In addition, there are two different flight modes: arcade and realistic - you can press F12 on the keyboard to toggle between these two features during game-play. Arcade Mode is better for playing through keyboard - it's an easy control system that maintains helicopter altitude while flying forward. The Physics Mode is recommended for those who are using a joystick. Apache Air Assault can be played from a number of different exterior and interior camera angles (look at screenshots).
I've played this game a couple of hours and I wasn't very impressed. There are much better helicopter shooters on the market (Comanche, Heli Heroes...), so I wouldn't recommend this game. Just not worth the money.
System requirements:
Minimum: Pentium III 450MHz, 96MB RAM, 16MB 3D Accelerator, 300MB HDD space
Recommended: Pentium IV 1GHz, 256MB RAM, 32MB 3D Accelerator
snd: 2/5 - acceptable, no ambient environmental sounds, repetitive music
gfx: 2/5 -
not much, weird done explosions and flames, some cheap lighting effect, a bit flat, uninteresting structures, many camera views
playability: 2/5 -
low-end Comanche clone, 30 various missions, 4 weapons systems, arcade-style controls (a bit clumsy for me - no good mouse support), support for joystick, no multiplayer
                                         
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last 10 comments:
| shock&awe | posted - May, 06 2003 - 05:18 | | SHOCK!!! This didn't get 70-85%!?!?!?! 8-0 Sounds like a half-hearted review... now i gotta check this game out to see why the gameguru only gave it 36%!!!! ;) |
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| Bill | posted - May, 06 2003 - 06:14 | | I agree with Mr. Bush. I want to try it out too. I like GameGuru, but the ratings you give is not acceptable |
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| shock&yawn | posted - May, 06 2003 - 06:35 | | Hey Bill, do you work in the postal department of the whitehouse? you should drop by my office sometime... I think Donald Rumsfeld is hosting a BF1942 LAN party in the oval office this weekend. Hope to see you there. :D |
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| hx | posted - May, 06 2003 - 09:48 | | to bill: Hey, what do you expect? This game is crap. That's all I can say. |
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| Lard Ass | posted - May, 06 2003 - 10:10 | | i must say that the only reasonable HELI gameplay i've seen is the HIND/BH/LONGOW in DESERT COMBAT mod 4 F1942 !
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| :) | posted - May, 06 2003 - 13:36 | | This is shitt not game |
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| me | posted - May, 06 2003 - 19:49 | | hx, why bother reviewing stuff any more seeing as all these stupid cunts just give you grief for it |
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| G-FusioN | posted - May, 06 2003 - 21:46 | | yo...i like da look of dis game...i might try it... |
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| Ray-B | posted - May, 06 2003 - 23:14 | | i'd rather playin' comanche 4 than play this ah64-shit,even the comanche 4 is an old game,but it's still rock,compare with the ah64-shit.......bad control,bad graphics,bad story line.......n' bad ASS...!!!!!! |
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| John | posted - May, 07 2003 - 03:12 | | "hx, why bother reviewing stuff any more seeing as all these stupid cunts just give you grief for it"
-Because there are many other people that do appreciate his reviews, that don't post here. |
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| SUPER DOE THE BIG BI | posted - May, 07 2003 - 04:12 | | i agree with John Doe you can't let a couple negative comments stop you from doing your work. Hx is not a baby he can handle it.
the game seems like crap. i think you get a unrealistic sense of being GOD like when your in the chopper. its not like that in real life.
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| OwL | posted - May, 07 2003 - 14:26 | | i like it^^ |
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| WAi | posted - May, 08 2003 - 00:22 | | HI l just Downloaded Apache AH-64 Air Assault l install everything and everythihg else. But when l run it, it won't fun..anyone have this kinda problem???
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| John | posted - May, 08 2003 - 05:01 | | It won't fun? That's a serious problem you got there.. =P |
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| Stumpus | posted - May, 09 2003 - 16:45 | | Comments from Lard Ass - Lard Ass posted - 04:10 AM EDT - May,06 2003
i must say that the only reasonable HELI gameplay i've seen is the HIND/BH/LONGOW in DESERT COMBAT mod 4 F1942 !
Come on, are you saying you haven't played the *KING* of heli sims Janes Longbow 2?
Or EE/KH or even Gunship!.....then you don't know what you've missed -the rest are sub-standard |
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| sawmangler | posted - May, 11 2003 - 20:57 | | ummmm...correct me if im wrong but, wasnt gunship the lame ass game that had such unrealistic physics that the "heli" was on a swivel above the main rotor and would allow you to rock back and forth violently (if you so chose to do so) without even the slightest fear of crashing??? |
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| radical runner | posted - May, 13 2003 - 01:41 | | ALL I CAN SAY IS CHOPPER ON THE APPLE 2E
WHICH CAME OUT ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO WITH 64K WITH GREEN SCREEN GRAPHICS IS FUNNER THAN THIS LOAD OF UNTIDY WASTE.
i hope someone starts collecting copies of this "game" and starts a big legalized fire to burn them. |
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| Heather | posted - Jun, 11 2003 - 03:48 | | Whats the matter with yolu people, I think that this a teriffic game. It only c ost me $15. Get rqeal. Heather. |
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| im talking to | posted - Jun, 11 2003 - 23:10 | | If you happy with a piece of shit then you are easy to please. |
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| [email protected] | posted - Aug, 01 2003 - 16:23 | | As a BIG flight simmer and owner of Camanche Gold i have to agree. This game is slow and almost seems like it was developed 15 years ago and just released. I have Fltsim 95-98-2001 Comanche, Comanche Gold. Combat Fltsim all theaters. I also have a recreational pilots licence and my rating would have been in the 30s as well.
John |
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