Author Topic: MiG Alley - Any good? (Read 598 times)

gofaster · « **on:** June 04, 2003, 09:06:04 AM »

I've been jonesing for some jet combat but don't feel like fiddling around with the fancy-pants radar read-outs of modern jet sims. Is MiG Alley any good? I'm looking for something I can learn in 30 minutes, play for about an hour at a time, that has a fairly good flight model and weapons ballistics and custom mission editor so I can make my own missions.

The last jet sim I bought was "Flanker 2" but I never got into it because I didn't feel like sitting through a lengthy ground school to learn the key commands and cockpit read-outs. Probably the jet sim I've played the most is "Jane's Fighters Anthology" simply because its easy to learn and I can make my own missions.

How does "MiG Alley" compare?

MoMoney · « **Reply #1 on:** June 04, 2003, 09:09:30 AM »

Buy strike Fighters. its really good and will be better with second patch. I've heard MiGAlley is great. I don't know if it runs on XP though or I would have bought it.

Pei · « **Reply #2 on:** June 04, 2003, 09:13:25 AM »

Well MiG Alley doesn't have a mission editor though it does have a fairly involved set of campaigns. Graphics are a bit dated but the FM is good once you turn all the options on. The work the BDG team (the guys who took over the source code of Battle of Britain and MiG Alley from Rowan) is putting out is very good (check out the MiG Alley forum at http://www.simhq.com). It's a fun game: I picked mine up for $5 and it was well worth the effort.

LePaul · « **Reply #3 on:** June 04, 2003, 09:42:07 AM »

Save your money...I bought MiG Alley, sadly, when it was much more than its current WalMart $4.99 price.

straffo · « **Reply #4 on:** June 04, 2003, 09:54:27 AM »

Playing it 30 minutes only ???
You will miss all the good part of the game ...

The real gem in this game is the campaign engine (even with the infamous RTB bug ...)

Pei · « **Reply #5 on:** June 04, 2003, 10:01:22 AM »

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Originally posted by LePaul
Save your money...I bought MiG Alley, sadly, when it was much more than its current WalMart $4.99 price.

Things are a bit different now: the BDG patch fixes a lot of issues and adds some really good new features (especially to views). Now you cold say it is a finished game as opposed to the typical ROwan half-finished release.

LePaul · « **Reply #6 on:** June 04, 2003, 10:21:38 AM »

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Originally posted by Pei
Things are a bit different now: the BDG patch fixes a lot of issues and adds some really good new features (especially to views). Now you cold say it is a finished game as opposed to the typical ROwan half-finished release.

Nice to hear...thanks for the info.

Lately I just bounce from Strike Fighters, Aces High, Falcon 4...and when the world really has me down...Postal 2

Wanker · « **Reply #7 on:** June 04, 2003, 11:13:17 AM »

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Originally posted by Pei
Things are a bit different now: the BDG patch fixes a lot of issues and adds some really good new features (especially to views). Now you cold say it is a finished game as opposed to the typical ROwan half-finished release.

Where do we get this BDG patch?

straffo · « **Reply #8 on:** June 06, 2003, 06:17:10 AM »

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Originally posted by banana
Where do we get this BDG patch?

http://www.3d-raumplan.com/Flightsim/

_Schadenfreude_ · « **Reply #9 on:** June 06, 2003, 07:28:29 AM »

Waiting for Lock on myself...

Wanker · « **Reply #10 on:** June 06, 2003, 07:50:13 AM »

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Originally posted by straffo
http://www.3d-raumplan.com/Flightsim/

Thanks Straffo!

gofaster · « **Reply #11 on:** June 06, 2003, 09:57:09 AM »

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Originally posted by straffo
http://www.3d-raumplan.com/Flightsim/

Now I'm really interested...

Thanks for posting that up!

Pei · « **Reply #12 on:** June 06, 2003, 10:11:08 AM »

While you are at it if you can get hold of a cheap copy of Rowan's Battle Of Britain that's well worth it as well (this is the sim that the BDG mainly work on - it was developed from the MiG Alley code so they port most of their BoB changes over to MiG Alley eventually).

gofaster · « **Reply #13 on:** June 06, 2003, 12:20:18 PM »

I didn't find Battle of Britain but I did find a copy of MiG Alley, with a copy of Apache Havoc as part of the package, for $5 at CompUSA in the bargain bin. I'm not much of a helicopter fan, but maybe it'll be fun.

LePaul · « **Reply #14 on:** June 06, 2003, 01:00:29 PM »

That helicopter game isnt too bad

There's another one that was a blast in mulitplayer...Apaches too. I can't recall the name. A friend of mine was a real master at hovering between buildings and popping you with folding fin rockets.

Team Apache, I think it is.....I'll have to dig

Some of these old games were great under Windows 98. Windows 2000 is a whole different story