![]() ![]() You can blitz through the main game in about 20 minutes, and then you can unlock extra options if you feel like tweaking the firing rate or combo system, or you can play score attack and try to climb the leaderboards. Gun down the lot and you'll get a secret side mission.īut, it's not a long-lasting excitement. A zippy prototype jet might require you to break the speed barrier just to keep up, and a stealth jet could throw off your missile targeting system. On certain levels, a VIP vehicle will swoop into view, and desperately try to evade your fire.Įach requires a new approach if you want to take it down. Plus, the special missions are always a treat. I feel the need… the need for speedĪnd, I admit, it's fun. It's more about the sheer visceral thrill of firing a bazillion rockets into a fleet of fighter planes, helicopters, and jump jets, while rocking out to cheesy arcade tunes and staring out at backdrops that look like the real world as if seen through about 12 Photoshop filters. You'd be hard pressed to describe it as a sophisticated game. No, After Burner Climax is not like that at all. That was about pinpoint manoeuvres and precision swerves and mastery of the controls. It's a long way from AM2's other arcade revival, OutRun 2. ![]() It most often feels like a slapdash - and slightly brainless - effort to paint the screen in target reticules, before hammering away at the 'missile' button. You can fire a machine gun to tackle nearby foes and do giant barrel rolls to evade incoming fire, but that's about the extent of the game's mechanics. You simply manoeuvre that jet about the screen to target baddies, then let loose a salvo of laser-guided rockets to blow them out of the sky. Danger Zoneīut that's all part of the joy. You probably can't barrel-roll a Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet by snapping an analogue stick from side to side, and I don't think they come with infinite missiles, either. So it's not surprising that After Burner Climax is probably not the most realistic take on jet fighters. Virtua Cop, on other hand, is only a halfway accurate representation of proper police conduct. I don't think Sega's arcade games are very realistic.Ĭrazy Taxi is not much like being a cabby in San Francisco, and driving like you do in OutRun would get you arrested. ![]()
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