Flight Sims has long been a staple of PC gaming. It’s weird to think that you can play a flight simulator on a console.

It’s also a shame you can’t. Hold dry. Not so fast. There’s a game out there. A lone wolf that even the most purist of flight sim enthusiasts would wink at. It has great graphics, fighter jets with unique features, including speed, ceiling, payload, etc., etc. Look, I’ve already lost the non-Flight Sim crowd. But before you go, it might do you good to finish reading this because you might be interested in this one.

Let me take you back for a second to my experience with Flight Sims. He says like this:

• Chuck Yeager Dogfight
• Jane’s Fighter Anthology
• Jane’s Israeli Air Force
• Jane’s F/A 18
• and it’s all pretty downhill from there.

Nothing commercially viable remained. I do not know what happened

So one day I’m walking through Gamestop and I see this used Xbox 360 game. No, not the Ace Combat series. It seemed different. The box was calling me. It was expensive, but I felt a connection to it. After all, He was calling my name.

I start playing it and lo and behold, I have limited ammo. I’m not flying at the speed of light, I’m flying at 250 knots and it’s taking me a while to get to that speed. When I go up, my speed decreases. If I make a tight turn, same thing.

Ok, now I go back and outfit my plane for some individual missions. My God, Phoenix missiles for my Tomcat! Sweet.

Then there is the multiplayer mode. Of course, only online. So, I move on. I figure I’ll shoot some people and call it a night.

The mission begins. I see a bogey on my radar at 11:00. I know what is flying because we got to see it in the lobby. Su-27. No problem.

I’m flying my big gray Tomcat loaded with 4 Phoenix missiles and a couple of Aim 7’s I think.

The next thing I know, it’s got a padlock on it. Still, I’m not worried.

He shoots. I’m still not worried. Let’s go head to head and I’m going to take out this turkey. I can’t see him, but he’s on my radar.

What happens next leaves me in complete shock.

exploded.

I spend the next two months learning how to dodge a missile. Then another couple of months learning to fight dogs without running out of weapons.

He had found what he was looking for. A flight simulator on Xbox 360 where I could compare my skills with the best online. Over time I unlocked almost all the planes, including the F-22, but my favorite was and still is the Russian Su-27. This game has the mechanics so well that you can do a Cobra stunt on the Su-27 if you know what you’re doing.

So what is this game? About G Fighters