Perhaps Eurofighter Typhoon's greatest hope for longevity is in LAN play, especially if future missions are released. Internet play does not seem to be highly promoted. New are Touch and Go where players start in the air and touch the base to arm, and Typhoon Racer in which pilots race and shoot like an airborne Interstate 76. Various incarnations of Head-To-Head, Team and Cooperative multiplay options are available. However, what other game has even attempted to model cruise missiles?

Also, the game designers may take a bit of license in assuming that tomorrow's cruise missiles will have evasive capabilities.

For example, the player hears the electronic counter measures (chaff and flares) fire automatically instead of manually as in past DID sims. Yet some were assumed to be present, but automated. Many of the aircraft's advanced features turned up missing in action such as radar modes, advanced autopilot modes and aspects of weapons guidance. I soon learned that knocking out a mobile ground target always required exactly two Brimstones hits. With many weapons, hitting targets often became a difficult chore as with the Beyond Visual Range air-to-air missiles. The game models the Typhoon's advanced weapons such as the Alarm missile, the anti-radar missile that homes in on SAM sites. The flight model felt good, the enemy AI made formidable opponents and the damage modeling was very well done. Ducking behind mountains, dodging SAMS and having snowball fights with anti-aircraft units all contribute to the fun. Waiting up to ten minutes to fly a mission can task one's patience, but there is plenty of work to do once in the cockpit. Or perhaps a pilot is awaiting rescue or being reprimanded or even escaping from jail. Icons show what each pilot is doing: flying a Strike, CAP, Wild Weasel or other mission. For example, choosing all combat air patrol pilots might be the best way to gain air superiority. Each pilot possesses his or her own unique personality, talents and survivability skills, which must be taken into account when determining the overall strategy. The player chooses six pilots from a roster of ten to stop the inevitable Russian invasion of Iceland.

During each day of the campaign, news feeds appear in text and video form chronicling events as they unfold. In a Cold War-like scenario but set in the near future, Russia and the West duke it out for control of Iceland. Eurofighter Typhoon lets the player begin a new campaign in either peacetime or wartime.

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