well, seeing as this WAS the main reason I was MIA for a while on MSN and Yahoo, and I got nothing better to do, i think im gonna say alittle something about this game.

Lock on is a flight sim, for those who want something close to flying the real deal, so if its not of interest, then its not for you. Try out the game malaka reviewed, it might be better for ya. Anyway, back on subject. Running it, and then the 1.11 or 1.12a/b patches, the graphics look alot better, not by much, but its enough to tell the different when your flying the Su25T, an upgraded Su25 thats aso known as a Su39. The background looks better and the lighting is just right to add a near photo op look when flying in a sunset or sunrise. All the planes are tweaked and the setup is changed up a bit as well, *like for the Eagle, you have to use a different button to launch missles and to fire the guns, as like with the real F15 or A10. And the physics are better to, for instance, crashes arnt always somewhat the same as with Lock on gold or any 1.01/1.02. You could snag a wing on something like a building, structure, or the ground, and the wing would break off, or some part of the pane wouldcome apart. Sometimes the plane would just desentigrate as pieces littered the runway or landscape, and this also encludes SAM hits which make your engine accually catch fire, or explode. Even makes the ejection seats fail from the shock. The radars are better, and the missiles do better too. bombs are still hard to drop and rockets are deadly if they contact. There are lots of FC compatable mods, like the one that adds all planes. And lots of skin and texture upgrades to let you customize your planes, permitted the mods worked or didnt cancel eachother out. All in all, its ok.

Now for the bad. um, lets see, star force sucks balls. Download the reg save program that keeps your keys when you reinstall and change HDs or something. Star force is a bitch. And some of the rumors thats were going around on the net say it does alot of other undesirerable things to go on. The FPS on this, sucks. when you get down to business, it lags, and if you put it on the low setting, it might good, but the graphcs are going look crappy. the missle firing systems are tricky to get use to in the russian planes. Sometimes I dont know when or when not to fire. So I wait til I get authorisation to shoot from the comp, which sucks cuz by then, and amramm is already 8m away from me and thats usually when I start manuevering to avoid id, but diving then breaking hard. The Su25T, although a great step over the older 25, is majorly underpowered. even if you decrase fuel levels tp balance out the plane, or if your not at full weight, it hesitates on take off, and if fish tails when you ar at a climing angle, or if youre turning or flying upwards with the throttle firewalled, it fishtails, you fight to keep it from rooling, but when you level out, it rolls in the opposite diretion and then your just going along for the ride after that if your at love level, or below 2300 feet. And fog screws with its altimeter and sometimes make it see like your higher than what it really is. And last but not least. the ilga, this renegade, with a shoulder luanched missle, can make your day go sour in a heartbeat. you get hit in the engine, just bail out, dont hesitae like I do, just bail out, and let the plane smash into the ground. the front of the wings are the same. although, with the A10, its closer to the centerof the wings. the best thing to do is carry all missiles and launch em lond range, sticking them before they have time to shoot back.

All in all, its worth it all. The game is pretty decent, and it could get addictive if you find yourself flying at low level blowing the crapp out of the enemy while they just desperately try to down you til and ilga hit you, then you kamaze the last target you can reach before your plane becomes part of the landscape. lol. Hell I like it alot, just wish start force would just crawl in a hole and die. thats the major killer for that game, and I congradulate starforce for giving them the boot.

but if you get it to work, and path it to 1.12a, dont mess with it, as long as it works, lol. Right now, Im going to try to get mine to rework again, lol. thats all for now, be back to posting pretty soon.