Follow-up to Sid Meier's legendary early flight sim F-15 Strike Eagle from 1985. For the sequel, he teamed up with Andy Hollis to create yet again an outstanding flight simulation that perfectly balances arcade and simulation elements. It could hardly be described as a hardcore simulation, but it's a fun action game in a solid flight sim environment.
F-15 II offers four difficulty levels to choose from, with missions set in four theatres of war: Libya, Persian Gulf, Vietnam and Middle East (without the scenario disk). Most missions are laid-out in the same way: there's a primary target and a secondary target. Your mission is to destroy them both and return home in one piece to your air base or carrier. Of course, destroying any other enemy targets during your flight doesn't hurt and will earn you a higher mission score. Score means promotions and medals.
For a simulation, the game is very simple. There are only three types of weapons you can use, two for air-to-air combat and one for air-to-ground attacks. Killing targets is very often just fire-and-forget, the flight model is simple and straight-forward. Graphics are very nice for its time and there's even some in-game speech through the PC speaker or adlib sound-card.
Overall, a solid arcade-oriented sim with a steep learning-curve, not very realistic but fun. A classic.
Note: In 1991, a scenario disk was released called "Operation Desert Storm". It added three new scenarios, two from the earlier F-19 Stealth Fighter, North Cape and Central Europe and, of course, a completly new scenario based on the Persian Gulf War called Desert Storm plus night missions, improved sound support and new weapons.
Review By HOTUD
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F-19 Mod gameplay: https://youtu.be/e92hGwR_GMI?si=41SON_jmsGzbfVVK
Trying to play this on windows 10 and can't get it to load.
File manager is treating the f15 file as an app that can't run and I can't figure out how to start it through dosbox.....
Can anyone take me through it.
I have the f15 Strike eagle II dos game and op desert storm scenario packages downloaded and unzipped
We played this in the office back in the 90's. It was nice because you could play for just a few mins and then go back to work. Looking back, I'm a bit surprised we did it--back then I worked in IT in a 60's/70's open office. No, guys the concept of an "open office" is not new--it was commonly done years ago, and it was as horrible then as it is now. Anyway, if any of the bosses noticed us playing it, they never said anything about it. It was a great game for a quick fix.
One of my favorite video games from teenage years.
Can't install it.
"This system can not support fullscreen mode"
Was looking for sound files from this game, especially "strike eagle ready for takeoff"
Yes!!! Great game! Thanks you
@Bardman make sure that you load the correct keyboard layout before playing, type "keyb us" before starting the game, throttle should work with +/- then.
If you have a totally different keyboard layout, try the two keys between "0" and "backspace". The eagle should spread it's wings now :)
I was going through some old boxes found the complete game in box all most mint what is it value thank you
Great game, even greater memories!
Suffering the same issues as a bunch of years ago: no throttle increase or decrease is possible ... so starting is possible via the afterburner (button A) only, while landing with the help of the auto pilot is needed.
anyone who can help out here? The +/- buttons nor on the keyboard neiter on the numpad are working ...
Thanx in advance!
One of the games, along with Falcon 3.0, I played too much, too long hours. Got my 386SX16 back then...
Dont have a joystick anylonger, so just watching the scr.shots, and try to remember... :)
Have some problem with DOSBox emulation: game crushes while gunfire. :(
The best combat Simulation I ever played :)
Played it continuously on my 286/10MHz and Hercules Monochrome. It was a blast, still have that old machine lying somewhere!
love it a lot,.. play it well on 386DX
I played this a lot on my 486 DX2 66mhz.
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