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With a game like Thunderhawk: Operation Phoenixit’s a great feeling to have the power of a high-powered US Army helicopterat your disposal.
As you’d expect there are missions aplenty starting with trips to Eastern Europe,Alaska, Africa and the Middle East, which include blowing up passenger trainscarrying dangerous cargo and attacking oil sea platforms.Also included is a Test Range, which has an obvious purpose and gives you achance to get to grips with the controls, which do take quite a lot of gettingused to, especially when trying to fire rockets and bullets whilst pitchingand yawing around the terrain.
The game looks very good as you head over hills and mountains, fire rocketsinto the distance and watch their smoke trails as they zoom off towards theirtarget. Sonically it’s a bit of a let-down as it’s stereo at best, but just alot of rat-tat-tat and explosions, along with the occasional chatter over yourheadset when you do something wrong.
It’s another case of “try-before-you-buy”, depending on whether military gamesare your bag of if you’d just like to pretend to be in Airwolf returningfire at anything that shoots you first.
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OVERALLIf you’re after some more info on Eidos Interactive’s games, you can checkout their official Website atEidosInteractive.co.uk
Review copyright © Dominic Robinson, 2001.
Reviewer of movies, videogames and music since 1994. Aortic valve operation survivor from the same year. Running DVDfever.co.uk since 2000. Nobel Peace Prize winner 2021.