Product Description

Over G Fighters is the only modern jet fighter game to deliver intense and exciting aerial combat showcasing the awesome power of modern aircrafts on Xbox 360. 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. Players command more than 30 of the most powerful jet fighters ever conceived and battle for air superiority in massive dogfights in the skies above Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Players combat enemies in the air and on the ground with challenging and dangerous strike missions against well defended targets deep in the heart of hostile territory. Harnessing the power of the Xbox 360, Over G Fighters depicts a precise recreation of the world`s most distinguished jet fighters in battle.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3666 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: UBI Soft
• Released on: 2006-06-30
• Platform: Xbox 360
• Dimensions: .33 pounds

Manufacturer's Description
Over G Fighters is the only modern jet fighter game to deliver intense and exciting aerial combat showcasing the awesome power of modern aircrafts on Xbox 360. 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. Players command more than 30 of the most powerful jet fighters ever conceived and battle for air superiority in massive dogfights in the skies above Europe, Asia, Africa and North America. Players combat enemies in the air and on the ground with challenging and dangerous strike missions against well defended targets deep in the heart of hostile territory. Harnessing the power of the Xbox 360, Over G Fighters depicts a precise recreation of the world's most distinguished jet fighters in battle.

Key Features:
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.

Attempt more than 80 intense missions in a modern-day global conflict: Players take the fight to the enemy in aerial battles all over the world and face massive, challenging missions with interlocking sub-missions. After successfully completing the sub-missions, players will attack the most challenging primary mission objective.

Check six: With 360-degree cockpit views from realistic, highly detailed and functional instrumentation. Players will feel the G-forces and hear the roar of jet engines in 5.1 channel stereo as they ignite the after burner.

Get right into the action: Kick the tires and light the fires! Players can jump right into the action and instantly engage in dogfights either one-on-one or in massive dogfighting "furballs."

Flight data recorder: Players can save their combat triumphs and learn from their defeats by recording and replaying their aerial exploits.

Xbox Live® online gaming service for up to eight players online: Engage in head-to-head dogfights or cooperative team play between squadrons on huge detailed maps with varied geographies.

Customer Reviews

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I dithered for days over buying this game because of the plethora of bad reviews, especialy in the trade press; finally it sunk in that there were also a lot of good reviews out there...mostly by flight sim fans (like me!) So i bought it, i've never reveiwed a game before, but this game is so good, just so much fun; that i had to, BUY IT! Slow it isn't, all flight games seem slow at altitude; try a carrier landing, buzzing the deck or flying head to head with another jet: it ain't slow! Repetitve? Well there are only certain elements to air combat aren't there? Doom is repetitive..even so it's fun but this is sheer hi octane joy...if you are, like me; a mug for PC sims you will love this game; it does everything you ever wanted without the bugs,crashes, slowdowns and fiddly controls. You must set all the options on top difficulty, highest realism; be patient for the first four missions or so which are easy and short as the program holds hands with you for a while but then the difficulty curve begins to tip up for the stratosphere and you start to enjoy...me i'm of to play some more.

frustrating to start with.......
First flight sim i've played on a console and was very dissappointed and frustrated to start with:
problems - limited manouverabilty (could only bank to 90 degrees)
-nigh on impossible to dodge missiles.
-first few mission were so easy it was like shooting fish in a barrel then you become unstuck, cos you cant point the plane in the direction you want quickly enough
-the background music.... give me strength

BUT - have altered the settings e.g from arcade to realistc, weapons select to manual, customised my payload improved missle dodging skills and now the game has potential.
-you can also select your own music thanks to the wonder of the 360.
-storyliine remains poor but, hey, am just there to shoot things and i mostly ignore the AI babble

not tried the game online yet so cannot comment

if you are patient and persistent, over G is not a bad buy. Good, but not great.

Hi Ex Up The Exhaust Pipe
You'll want to love the pretty aircarft models, and you'll want to love nursing a smoking F16 back to the tarmac after a sortie, but mostly you'll just despair. The only way to consistently evade incoming air to air missiles is to fly head on at them, corkscrewing, and pray you only get crippled (forcing a tedious and very slow return to base) rather than blown to bits. Survival is about luck (and very bad odds) rather than skill, meaning however pretty it is, as soon as you come up against an aircraft any more challenging then a Chinese junkpile (there's a worldwide selection of junk & quality opposing machinery) there's a fair chance your ass is doomed. There's very little skill involved, and as soon as you hear the missile launch warning, you'll just want to chuck something (probably the controller) at the wall.

Aside from the missions (cue awful storyline and briefings that would be at home on a Megadrive) there's the apparently huge map that you can roam at will... Oh, hang on - you mean a couple of tiny little islands and a whole lot of empty ocean. And back on the subject of the missions - how short?! Fly around, shoot down three brainless computer pilots in wholly inappropriate and ancient machines, and that's it... Followed by another mission where three ridiculously competent pilots pop up behind you (they don't fly in - they pop up, meaning it always feels very unconvincing) - and launch wave after wave of missiles that can only be evaded as detailed above.

Yes, you'll want to love it, but it's too damn frustrating and pointless. Don't be seduced by pretty pictures - the gameplay is horrible.