Lock On: Modern Air Combat

This past weekend I picked up a copy of Lock On: Modern Air Combat. While this game is a couple years old I had never played it. I'd been keeping an eye out for a decent combat flight sim after having not so much luck with the latest Microsoft Combat Flight sim.

In my mis-spent youth I was big into flight sims and combat flight sims. However as I grew older and flight sims became more accurate in their simulation of air combat I just didn't have the time to learn how to operate the radar on a F-15. I'd love to be able to but I just don't have the headspace.

That said I've got 3-4 hours into Lock On and its pretty fun. I am learning a bit and my rusty flying skills are helping me a bit. I really like how damage is simulated in the game. It's really cool to get hit by an airburst from an enemy missle, hit the afterburner to escape and have the aircraft drift off to the right or left then realize one engine is blown and trailing smoke. Good game.