
TE allows you to do just about everything from placing units and making events to stringing up whole campaigns. It's a great way to get started and the briefings were written by an actual F-16 trainer, Pete Bonani, who also helped on the project itself.įor all you budding campaign makers out there, TE is one of the best modules you could ask for in a flight simulation - now that it's been patched, of course. These missions are explained in detail in the game's gigantic manual and cover everything from taking off and landing to full-scale air and ground combat.

This mode includes both the game's mission/campaign editor and also the game's highly detailed tutorial missions. The next mode is the Tactical Engagement (TE) mode. First, there's the requisite instant action mode, which as it says, puts you right in the air with a sparse objective and lots of enemies to kill. Once in the main menu, you have several options available to you for your gaming pleasure. It may look daunting at over 600 pages but it's probably one of the best computer game manuals ever written. A word to the wise: before playing this game, read the manual. Once installed and patched, you're taken to the opening cinematic, which puts you in the mood for the action to follow. The upside of this is that you don't need the CD to play the game and the game also loads much more quickly. This game can be fully installed onto your hard drive for about 650 MB.

Luckily, the game finally was released and while the initial release was incredibly buggy and problematic, the newly patched 1.08i version really brings the simulation to the forefront where it was meant to be.

If it did, we were also worried that we'd see another Battlecruiser 3000 debacle. This game took so long to produce that many people thought it would never see the light of day. Falcon 4.0 is the culmination of many years of development.
