F-22: Air Dominance Fighter

This was my favorite flight sim back in the day; so nice to revisit it again in the modern area and take a break from the high skill stress of DCS. No DCS level skill needed here; more for casual or beginner players to try your hand at the combat flight sim genre in a modern jet. Plenty of varied missions, (Although I hope they port "TAW" over too soon for the dynamic campaign which was my favorite and ground-breaking in it's time.) Graphics are vintage/unimpressive but good enough. There is full HOTAS support plus Rudder pedals in-game plus you can program additional commands to your flight gear of choice with outside software for a mostly keyboard free experience with no glaring issues detected. (My Thrustmaster T.A.R.G.E.T. software worked OK with only a couple minor issues with certain commands in-game.) Track IR worked fine as well so worth the time and money in my opinion if you want a casual, nostalgic sim experience.

Nostalgia and good work done. A time travel that worths the value. Want Total Air War back too!! I used to play TAW around 25 years ago. I spent so many hours of fun with that game. Some years later I tried to find forums to check if was still playable, but I couldn´t manage to run it properly and forgot about it. Now, as I heard F22 ADF has been remastered and ready to play, I didn´t want to miss the opportunity. Now, after 16h on the game, with most of training missions done and starting real fire, I want to give my feedback and thoughts about. Pure nostalgia ready to play: Being back to F22 cabin it´s been incredible. Game runs smoothly on W10 without remarkable bugs (Bigger with hotas was solved in few days) with HD resolution. I bought old good joystick and proved that well made software and hardware don´t expire. Visual enhancement: Besides new Hi Res available, I installed Reshade software. Even without any prior knowledge, Imanaged to visually enhance the game a bit. I hope new TAW remaster can add some of these options natively without too much technical effort. Is it worth the price?: I can understand that pay 20-25 €/£/$ for a 30 years old game in the times of legal free to play games can generate doubts. I doubted myself. But then I though…. How much time I spent 15 years ago trying to make TAW work in windows 7? If any friend had assured me that he can install the game to run fluent, for sure I would invite him to a pizza and some beers. But also I don´t see this as a simple payment for an old game. I´m supporting those brave guys that make the effort to bring my memories back, who took the risk of bring back to life a “niche” game without a guaranteed return on investment, and, especially, to tell them that it´s worth going for TAW. I paid 20€ for the game, 25€ for a used joystick and for me…. It´s worth it. I´m not just buying a game, I´m funding the idea to bring back old flight sims. In summary: Running solid in a 10 years old W10 laptop full HD, now compatible with flight hardware, it brings back to me hours of fun I though forgotten forever. So, not just for this F22 ADF, but also to give the clear message that I want TAW back…. I can just recommend to buy it.