Over G Fighters
In Over G Fighters, a terrorist organization threatens the world’s peace and security as players take to the skies in a united world air force. Take the fight to the enemy in aerial battles all over the world and face massive, challenging missions. Players will feel the G-forces and hear the roar of jet engines in 5.1 channel stereo as they ignite the after burner. Fly the world’s most powerful fighters: Fly every modern jet fighter in the Western arsenal including the F-22A Raptor, the US air superiority fighter of the 21st century. Face more than 90 Western and former Soviet enemies and get in the cockpit of the F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16C Fighting Falcon, F/A-18C Hornet, Su-27 Flanker, MiG-29A Fulcrum, and F-117A Nighthawk.
User Ratings and Reviews
2 Stars A Buggy Top Gun
I want to like this game. The actual game play is enjoyable and would place the game in the company of games like Tom Clancy’s HAWX. There is a certain Top Gun feeling to the game that would make it an enjoyable entry into airplane game genre. However, the game is kind of buggy. The achievements are standard: beat a level, get an achievement. Unfortunately, getting the achievement seems to freeze the game/system and requires restarting the system and frustratingly replaying the level (the achievement will be saved, but the finished level will not be, so the NEXT time you beat you beat the level, you can proceed without issue). So I played a few levels, and would like to play more, but until they patch this game there are other airplane games that don’t offer the headache.
5 Stars over g fighters
My Son has autism and can play this game very well he’s only 7yrs old
its a great flying game
5 Stars Not your typical console fighting game
And I mean that in a good way. This is the most authentic piloting experience that you can get on the Xbox 360 without actually being a pilot! Make sure to take the controls off of basic as this dramatically changes the gameplay. The menus are horrendous and the cut scenes are a joke… This game shines in the game play and in the detail of the terrain.
The first few missions may seem boring, but stick with it. Missile evasion is the single hardest thing to master in this game. There is nothing more satisfying that evading a missile that was fired by your aggressor and then turning your nose toward him to shoot him down with your own AAMRAM or Sidewinder…
4 Stars Great fun on expert mode
Over G Fighters allows you to fly a number of modern airplanes with either arcade style or realistic handling capabilities. If you’re willing to plow through the novice training issues, the full bore gameplay is quite good.
First, getting started. Flying as a novice is like flying through molasses. Accept that and get to know the controls. If you’re used to other flying games, reset your buttons to match what you’re used to. Turn OFF the music soundtrack - it is atrocious. Put on your own favorite music instead.
The written instructions often are confusing - apparently poorly translated. The cut scenes with the stationary cartoon faces are silly in the modern world of gaming.
Accept all of that. The game isn’t perfect. Once you start to get the hang of things, kick your difficulty up to expert level, and start diving into the missions. You’ll find your plane becomes MUCH more responsive. The game will also become more challenging as well! You’ll have to really dogfight, knowing which missiles to barrel roll away from, which to drop chaff / flares.
The missions aren’t short. You can be tied up for 20 minutes going through one mission, so this isn’t a quick-fix game. Also, the missions can be redundant sometimes.
What they do, though, is prepare you wonderfully for online combat. If you think flying against computers is fun, try pairing up with friends online to fly missions, staying on each other’s wing, chasing each other down, you name it.
Definitely not a quick-play arcade game, and the higher quality expert level might be too challenging for some players. Still, I highly recommend sticking with it if you enjoy air combat games. The planes and landscapes you unlock as you go, and the mental challenge of outwitting the enemies and landing in one piece are well worth it. I do hope they come out with a new version, though, that fixes many of the “flaky” problems with cut-scenes, translation, sound, etc. that are found here. For those annoyances I give it 4/5 rather than a higher score.
3 Stars Feel like spending 20 minutes to get to your target?
Its a decent game if you like flight simulators. Don’t expect to have 50 missiles (unless its in Rookie Mode), Missions become repetitiveness and last between 15-20 minutes in average. The campaign is lengthy, and the challenge mode may be boring if you are not used to flying for 20 minutes before finding a target to hit. Overall its a good game, for those who have patience and like to play flight simulator games like IL-2 and Falcon 4.0. Imagine those games but for the Xbox 360 console.
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